Easter Sunday

I am so thankful for this special holiday.

A day to recognize the amazing life and message of our savior

and most importantly his atoning sacrifice for us.

He lives!

Here are my little Easter beauties all ready for church.

I am in love with their dresses.

Thanks Nonna!

My hair looks seriously red in this picture.

Weird.

I haven't colored it for YEARS, so it must have some natural red hue to it?

Happy Easter!

Easter Egg Hunt

All ready to go!

Gwen found one and then was finished.

After seeing that candy, that was it!

Layla was a bit of an egg nazi.

Oh well, enjoy the perks of being the oldest while you can.

Okay, so I'm a little ashamed to say that this is the first egg hunt for BOTH of our girls.

As a kid we never did the big community hunts, or had a ton of family nearby to get together with. SO, that's made me a little less ambitious about making this holiday so huge,

in the "egg hunting" sense anyway.

I decided that it'd be fun and not at all stressful to have a little hunt here in our yard.

And I was right!

It was simple and fun.

A little bit of crazy

(Not sure why, but most of the expressions that my girls made this day were like this. Blank and blah. Not in the mood for pictures I guess.)

We've been super elated and also so sad this last week.

Such a roller coaster of crazy emotions.

Tanner graduated 2 weekends ago and we couldn't be more proud of him!

He even got a really great offer from the company he's been working part time for, which is such an answer to prayers.

I also had a scary day when I wouldn't stop contracting. Thankfully those terbutaline shots work and I was sent home with a lovely bottle of those pills (that make me so jittery!) and haven't had any real problems since.

I'm only 24 weeks along, so I DON'T want this baby coming now!

We were so happy to welcome back Breanna (Tanner's little sister and the greatest babysitter) and our friends Derek and Taylor, who've all come back to school!

Hooray for friends and family!

But also sad to say that we've experienced our first E.R. trip with Layla.

Thankfully she was completely zonked out, slept the entire visit, so no scary memories.

She was completely fine one minute, then started vomiting and shaking the next, seemingly dying of pain in her abdomen.

Scary, huh?

Well after they did an x-ray (yes, she even slept through that), they found that she had a partial obstruction and needed to get on some "softener".

Thankfully it was nothing super serious, although I don't doubt she was in a lot of pain.

Poor girl.

The sun is finally starting to show itself for longer than an hour or two, which is SO welcome here in Rexburg! We're loving every second!

Going for walks, playing in the grass, not wearing big puffy coats.

WONDERFUL!

So, all in all, we're doing just fine. Super excited for everything that's coming around the horizon...

A REAL income.

Layla's preschool.

A weekend vacation for me and my Mom!

Dance class.

Baby blankets to be sewn.

SUMMER!

And a sweet new baby girl.

Life is good.

Cabin in Jackson

The Cabin

My father-in-law's boss owns this beautiful place and let the Steveson's stay for the week.

It was absolutely gorgeous inside... as you can see.

We had a blast taking it all in.

(If you look real close, on top of the cupboards is a stuffed raccoon. Layla kept calling it a weasel.)

Downstairs Master Bath

(picture doesn't do it justice)

This is the room we were lucky enough to stay in.

It was just perfect.

Gwen slept in the big closet and Layla had a blow up mattress.

Our bathroom!

I loved the window... thankfully it was high enough :)

Here's the middle media/bedroom with a bathroom!

I didn't take pictures of the other HUGE bedroom, but it was nice as well.

There was also another little media room downstairs that had a fold out bed.

SO fancy!

Here's us...

Breanna, Colleen, and Larry.

The Reeds

(Brittyn, Neeley, Daryl, Max, Ruby, and Bayley)

Another family pic.

Grandpa and Grandma with the grandkids that were there.

They had a lot of fun playing with each other.

I really wish we could see them more often!

A timed photo of all of us!

(minus Josh and Sharsti, who came up on Thursday. We missed you guys!)

Overall it was such a fun and relaxing getaway.

We only had to drive about 90 mins to get there, which was great for us!

Now we get to switch gears and get ready to celebrate Tanner's Graduation!!

WOO HOO!

Gwenners

Gotta love that goofy grin!

Ultrasound Baby #3

So... this little girlie would barely sit still when it came to getting a profile shot.

One had kept going in her mouth, while other one waved rapidly in front of her face.

Silly baby.

So, the pictures are a lot less clear than ones we've had in the past.

Two things were pretty clear though:

- She's cute as a button.

-She has big lips like her sister.

A random arm/hand shot.

Me at 20 weeks.

The belly is popping out further and further these days.

Thankfully Gwen has started walking as her MAIN mode of transportation now too!

Definitely worth noting.

(It's only taken her 17 mo!)

She's been a knee walker, with a little bit of regular walking on the side.

Now it's the other way around!

YAY Gwen!