Our week

Justin's been gone all week.  Actually, in a 5 week period (ending April 6th) he will be home for about 6 and a half days.  Right now he's doing his two weeks for the Navy in Newport, Rhode Island, and so far, there hasn't been any hurricane's like last time he was there.

The first half of the 2 weeks were pretty busy... this coming week seems a bit more relaxed.

Tuesday was our Young Women's cake auction.  It was a little sad this year, not as well attended as the last few years, but we still had a TON of cakes and other baked goods.  Our ward members were very generous.  I made cupcakes that went for around $30 and my cake this year went for $111.  I made it the week before for Gordon's birthday and I do have to say, it is a delicious cake.  An Andes Mint Cake with peppermint buttercream and chocolate ganache.

Wednesday I finally made it to the Tracy Aviary.  They do $1 Wednesday's all winter long.  I found out about it the first part of February and between the weather and other things going on with our schedule, I made it on the last one they offered.  We went with friends and the kids seemed to like it.  It was most definitely worth $1.

That night I had dinner with friends (no pictures) and luckily I had cupcakes and the fresh strawberry butercream frosting left over, so it made the night pretty easy.  I'm sure Bryon and Steve were happy to go back to their spotless and quiet place though.  My kids are pretty loud (and messy).


Thursday was a pajama day.  In the morning this seems like such a good idea, but it always backfires on me.  I usually don't do my hair, so I don't want to go out anywhere, but we end up getting so stir crazy in the house I regret my earlier decision and try to put on a hat and get out.

Kate climbs into her shopping cart and waits for Hyrum to push her around.  

Friday was supposed to be a really nice day so I told my mom we were going to the zoo and she ended up coming with us.  I always seem to choose the wrong stroller to take on any of our outings.  I took the double to the aviary, and Hyrum sat in it for 2 seconds, and at the zoo, where he seemed to tire out a lot quicker than usual, I only had our single with us. I guess it won't be long from now when ever with the double he'll be walking -so I suppose he should just get used to it!

Saturday we headed up to my mom's for the weekend with Jodi.

One of Grandma's Easter crafts

The kids love cleaning the floor.  Good thing Grandma has two swiffers.  

Building (or destroying) with lincoln logs.  

We had dinner and Easter Egg dying contest.  I'm not sure why not many of us really got into the contest this year.  (Jenny still did awesome, Jessica had a great idea that didn't seem to work right, and Jodi's ended up being super cute).  Justin thinks it was a conspiracy that we did it without him, to let someone else win for a change (If I remember right, he has taken the top prize for the eggs and pumpkin carving contests the last couple of years).

We decided Jenny was the winner for her henna/lace drawing on a couple of eggs, plus she drew Phineas and Ferb (from a tv show) that made Perry the Platypus (from the same kids show) that much cooler -which Jodi did.  I've been on a Red Sox kick, and tried to do a few themed eggs.  But, then I realized the red was much more pink, and I was not prepared to try and make a green one look like Wally, the Green Monstah, so I gave up.

Oh... and the week before we went up to Gordon and Jessica's house after his back surgery.  We went on a short walk and had lunch.  Hyrum loved the 'easy access' doggy door!