Easter

Every year our neighborhood does a fun Easter egg hunt for all the kids. Would you believe that for about 3 blocks. Each house had to put out 78 eggs each?!?!? Believe it, we love us some kiddos here.

 Annie was so excited to collect the eggs

 It took a few home but she learned quick that she could only get one egg per house.

 Annie's Easter dress (I paid $2.03 for this beauty!!!). She's started this new cheese face whenever we take pictures now.

 Such a goof!

 Singing "Once there was a snowman" while drinking juice at the same time. Such a multi-tasker...

 "small, small, small"

After church, we had a yummy Easter dinner at Jared's parents house. Complete with an Easter egg hunt and plenty of time playing with the cousins.

Baby Animal Days

Every year, a place up in Logan (The American West Heritage Center), holds a baby animal days. I decided this would be a fun year to take Annie. My mother-in-law made the drive with us and I don't think Annie could have been any happier!

watching the baby colt

peeking at the baby sheep

these were her favorite by far. She wanted to see the baby sheep twice

The piglets were a little scared of all the kids. There are actually 5 of them hiding in that corner.

Pigmy goats

waiting patiently to pet the baby ducklings

Old wagon pose

watching the ponies

There were tons of other things that we missed out on (baby bears, little turtles, etc.) but we did watch a sheep get sheared, watch a lady spin wool, get some kettle corn, and eat out at Juniper Takeout. After our adventures in Logan, we headed to Tremonton to visit my sister-in-law and her kiddos. Annie is obsessed with her new baby cousin Thomas.

Peas Water

We've started to plant the garden! It's one of my favorite times of the year. I love to watch our labors grow and more importantly I love to eat and enjoy the fresh veggies. Over President's Day weekend, Jared planted the peas. Annie helped of course and I'm pretty sure half the seeds fell into the grass...we'll have to be careful if she plants anything with smaller seeds!!!

She loved it. She checks on the peas almost everyday and this is how it usually goes:

 "Momma, peas water! peas water! peas water!" (she wants to water the peas)

 

I just can't wait to teach her how to weed!!!

For Shame

Apparently my trigger finger took a break when we went to visit my family for the weekend because I only came back with one picture....seriously.

At least it was quite possibly the cutest picture I could have snapped.

Cousins Charlotte & Annie

These two were the cutest little buddies while we were up in WA. 

Annie's reaction to my family couldn't have been more perfect. I'm always scared that since we live so far away that she'll just clam up whenever we go visit. It couldn't have been more opposite. She knew exactly who everyone was and was quite happy to see them all. I wish we could visit more often!!!

bye bye binky

I'm not going to lie. I've been looking forward to this day for quite some time. We set a date to clip the binkies. While Jared left town for the Jacksonhole hill climb, Annie and I hit the road and made a long weekend out of it to WA. I decided to keep the binky for the benefit of her ears on the plane ride but once we got home we'd clip them and get rid of them for good.

Since I knew we'd be getting rid of them soon, I let Annie go hog wild on them.

 She couldn't have been more thrilled to have a handful of binkies.