April Showers

The 3 ladies reading a bedtime story (Potato Man). We have been working on finishing painting the girls' room and cleaning out the garage.  

Tomorrow is our 7th wedding anniversary!  We will be celebrating with an anniversary party FHE- bowling and ice cream.  Bryan spoke in church today and did a great job.  This week I am getting a pedicure and going the temple.  We also went out Saturday night to Cafe Rio and then hiked the 'B,' which anyone who has been to there will laugh.  

I am 33 weeks along, so 7 more to go.  Projects still to do include painting the baby room and finding a baby name.   In prep for baby we got a new van- 2006 Honda Odyssey.  Emily says it's dark blue/black/gray.  My favorite part is the automatic opening side doors- I feel so luxurious with my magic clicker.  

Easter

We enjoyed beautiful weather today for Easter Sunday.  We gave the girls flower seeds potted in ceramic Easter eggs which they loved.  We had lots of beautiful messages of Christ's resurrection at church.  Then we had the Fosters over for Easter dinner and did an Easter egg hunt.  The girls loved their ring pops which turned their mouths dark blue.  Fun and cute.  Here they are in our front yard with our gorgeous spring time flowers!  

The girls got 'Chinese' dresses from their Grandpa Hanks who went on a business trip to Singapore.   They loved learning about another culture and practicing bowing.  Emily totally got into it and spoke Chinese, got out the chopsticks and wore a golden necklace as a crown all morning.  

For Ashley's birthday they got some bathtub crayons from Grammy.  There are smiles drawn on their backs.   They giggled during the whole bath.  

On good Friday I got to sing in an Easter choir.  The music was written from the perspective of Christ's disciples.  There were songs from the point of view Peter, three people who got healed, Mary & Martha watching Lazarus, the disciples before and after his death.  The experience was awesome- the music so uplifting and I loved singing in a choir again.  I love too that the music is in my head so I keep singing messages about Christ.  

Ashley's 3rd Birthday

We celebrated Ashley's birthday on Sunday with the Fosters who came to share cake and love with us.  They gave both girls presents so Emily wouldn't be too jealous and they both got new Barbies.  

Bryan made Ashley an awesome pink castle cake which she loved.  On Monday the 30th we celebrated lunch at Carl's Jr playland with friends and that night ate cake then played drums on the dinner dishes.  We also got lots of phone calls from family sending their love.