For Easter they all got photo books recapping the last couple of years, a chocolate Easter Bunny and WWJD bracelets (apparently these are cool again). Ruby got a Child of God shirt, farm animals, little fish in a net (this was her favorite, she kept saying "fish!") and a little dinosaur fidget. Penny got a Love Like Jesus shirt, fairy garden things,a Beanie Boo and "Sons of Provo" DVD (which unfortunately didn't work- that's what I get for buying used :( ). Lucy got a Faith Over Fear shirt, fairy garden things, a Beanie Boo, and "Trek" DVD. Ben got a WALL-E brickhead, fun socks and a tie and "Home Teachers" DVD. Steven got a Jesus Brickhead, fun socks and a tie and a Spotify giftcard. Tyler got a Harry Potter Lego set, a Gryffindor tie and matching socks and candy. I got some face cream, a Lego puzzle, some candy and a new dress.
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For breakfast this year I made bunny cinnamon rolls and bacon. Everyone chowed down their breakfast so I might do this again next year. I have been trying to get the right mix of easy but also something the kids will eat for Easter breakfast.
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With late church we managed to have enough time to take nice pictures before leaving. Since my mantel now has a TV and is not the best place for pictures we decided to use Tyler's shed as the background. I think that was a good choice. Tyler even set up the camera, without me asking, so we could get a picture of all of us.
Cherish dropped off Geli and Luna at our church so the girls had their friends at church with them. Church was only an hour long but it felt longer with Miss Ruby. She was very noisy and wiggly. When Tyler went up to sing with some other men, Ruby started shouting "Dada!" Then my kids noisly shushed her. I don't know how many times I have to tell them that their shushing is louder than Ruby's talking. Later Ruby was chatting noisly again so I went to take her out and she made sure to say "Bye" to everyone as we left. It wasn't the most spiritual meeting for me. Grace came to church for once though and I didn't realize how much I missed seeing her there.
After church I got in a nice nap and then prepped the house for hosting Easter dinner. The Jones family came over around 4pm and we all cooked our allotted dishes. Mariah made fish and I made some ground turkey to eat with the pita bread. We do a "Last Supper" dinner theme but I think each year it gets a little tastier as we add more "grown up" things.
Once our dinner had settled, we all made Peep Houses. This is our new tradition, as of this year, to replace dying Easter Eggs because we decided easter eggs weren't worth the efforts. Everyone enjoyed eating their peep houses way more than eggs. It was a nice last holiday with the Jones family. The kids are feeling sad that they will no longer have their annoying cousins to hang with- their words. not mine ;)
Monday evening their was an art show at the High School and both boys had work from their art class in it. Their copper creations are under the glass in the picture below. Ben's is a dove and Steven's was a symbol from a video game called Doom. The other picture shows Steven's picture of old school TVs.
Monday night after the kids all went to bed I was checking text messages on the kids' phone and saw that Lucy went a little crazy that day. I had told her we needed to take a little break from inviting Claire over (because she is constantly asking me to invite her over) and give Claire a chance to miss her. Well, Lucy did not take my advice and instead sent a text to Claire saying pretty much what I said- "you need to invite me over because my mom won't let me invite you over because she wants you to 'miss' me" -and then she added on a lot of of other desperate sounding things and she tried to invite herself to a sleepover that Claire was having with other friends. It was rough to read. The next day I ended up taking away her independent texting privileges and now I have to read all texts she sends. Then we talked about why she got so crazy desperate and she said it was because she was bored. So we talked about inviting other friends over and signed her up for a graphic design class online. I have a feeling that Lucy's obsession with friends is always going to be a challenging part of raising her. I know that was something I tended to do too.
Tuesday evening the weather was fantastic so while Penny was at soccer practice, Lucy and Ruby strolled downtown Milford with me and we got ice cream. We even walked down to the park and played there for a bit. I was wearing the Connor Price shirt Tyler had gotten me and someone at the park noticed and said they were at the concert too. I had to sadly tell them that I did not go but the rest of my family did and bought me a t-shirt. This person also had a baby named Ruby. This is the second Ruby we have met out in public and here I thought I had picked an unpopular name. Boo. Also while at the park a train went by and Ruby thought that was the coolest thing. And we heard the church bells walking through town. Lots of sights and sounds for Ruby that night.
After exploring downtown Milford we went back and caught the tail end of Penny's soccer practice. Ruby was pretty cute and kept shouting "Penny!" She is getting good at saying all the kids' names. Lucy also took a nice selfie and picture of the clouds.
Wednesday, after dropping the girls off at their school, Ruby and I went on a walk with Grace. We walked down to the small park in front of the library. I figured that one would be easier to chat at that park since it is smaller and less populated than Scarlet's Park. I was correct. We had a really good chat as per usual. After the walk with Grace, Tyler was eating some waffles and Ruby pulled herself up onto the chair next to him and started begging. She loves Tyler's peanut butter waffles. Probably because he puts so much syrup on them.
Thursday and Friday were both really warm days so after doing school work we walked to beach and the girls played in the water. Ruby really wanted to get all the way in the lake but we just did the shallow area. Ruby was very excited by all the geese and swans that were in the lake. She is going to love beach days but she is also going to need me to be with her.
Thursday night the older 3 all had baptisms at the temple. I was going to take Penny out for a treat (she was jealous that Lucy got a treat while she was at soccer) but then I had some bowel issues and just wasn't feeling up to eating a treat so I had Tyler take Penny and Ruby. That left me alone at the house for a rare moment so I decided to clean out the guest room.
Saturday morning Penny had her soccer game. I decided to clean the house and let Tyler take Penny to the game. It was a good thing that I did that and that I had cleaned up the guest room earlier because we found out that afternoon that Mariah's family was sick so we were going to host Tara and her kids that night. That made me super anxious because I like to mentally prep myself for dealing with Tyler's family and I like to have time to physically prep the home and pantry for such things but at least the cleaning was out of the way. After that news, I took Ben to his soccer game and that was a fun watch. He actually played for a lot of it and he did really well. His team won 4 to 0. His friend from church, Paulo, is on his team, so I got to hang with Paulo's family during the second half. It was nice to have someone to chat with. When the game was done, Tyler and I went to eat at a new place called Freakin Nachos. It was alright and was a ton of food but I wasn't super impressed. I'm not sure we will return but Lucy did like our leftovers a lot. After dinner we went and picked up some food for hosting. It was a busy day. That night Tara and her kids came in. Their flight landed at 10pm and I did not wait up for them, I like my sleep more than being a good hostess, lol.
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