Easter Festivities (and before)

We did a lot of fun things this week.  Riley even told me I was "cool awesome", so it obviously was a good week.

Riley is really good at his letters, here he is labeling family members on Skype with the first letter of their name.

Tanner thinks he's a big kid now.  He likes to be in the exersaucer for about 5 minutes at a time.  Longer would be more helpful, but I will take what I can get.  He also started eating rice cereal, he loves it.  He likes to eat.  Oh also he had a doctor appointment 26 inches and 14 pounds 11 ounces.  And still has a giant head (95%).

All the schools had spring break so there were some fun things going on in Albuquerque.  We went to the balloon museum and played with bubbles, attempted to fly a kite, and watched mini hot air balloons.

Some friends from our ward put on an easter egg hunt the Friday before Easter.  Riley thought finding eggs was so fun.  Andrew had the day off so he got to come too.  We also ate tasty breakfast there.

"Ride bike me dad?"

We dyed eggs with some friends. 

Andrew made the world on an egg. It was pretty intense.

Our ward had an activity on Saturday where the kids found easter eggs with scriptures and exchanged them for candy.

After church on Sunday we had dinner with our friends and we took pictures of us in our fancy easter clothes.  I made Riley and Tanner's bow ties.

This one's my favorite

We had a great Easter week.  Riley even paid attention to us and his nursery teachers this week.  And he can tell you about Jesus getting hurt and resurrected (if you ask, and he has his handout from class nearby).  Success!

Uncle Bryce and Gram come to visit

How do you get a 2 year old who thinks he's done with naps to continue to nap?  Have his uncle come to visit and take a nap.  Next time maybe we will try potty training :)  But seriously. . .  There is a backhoe outside Riley's window digging up the neighbor's driveway and Riley is sleeping.

Anyway, Bryce had spring break and him and my mom decided to come visit us.  They got here Wednesday evening and left early on Saturday.

On Thursday we ate donuts and went to the zoo.  The polar bears and baby elephant were the favorites.

Friday we hiked to Tent Rocks.  Riley probably walked more than half of the 2.5 mile hike.  

Tanner walked none of it.  Lazy.  Just kidding.  Baby.  I carried him.  Tough.  :)

Modeling.

Also modeling.

Not Modeling.

Riley has told me at least 6 times since they left that he wants to go on another hike with Gram and Bryce.  We miss them already.

Here's a random picture of Tanner

Also cute thing Riley said, "Riley and Tanner friends".  Success!

Random Thoughts

Here are some random thoughts I've had lately

- Why do they make Flintstone vitamins that are not purple? The red and orange ones aren't as good.
- With me as Young Women Secretary and Andrew as Executive secretary we are the most secretary family in the ward.
- The only other time I've been secretary of something was way back in my Key Club days.  No one was running for secretary when it came time to vote for a new presidency, so I decided to run.
- A few nights ago I woke up to a little voice on the other side of the bed saying, "Excuse me, excuse me Dad, Dad excuse me, excuse me. . . ".  Riley pushed on Andrew until he rolled over to make enough room for him. He was very polite.
- Riley has two career aspirations:  Astronaut and Delivery man (UPS)
- I broke a mirror a few weeks ago, I know that means 7 years bad luck, or whatever, but Andrew broke a pickle jar last week and that was 17 hours of stinky house, which has been worse than my bad luck (so far).

Umm that's about all.

Also we fed the ducks 3 loaves of bread today

Andrew building a house at the Children's Museum, Riley is going to go look at the cars.

Tanner

Andrew and Riley flying kites

Alyna got Married- I didn't take any Pictures of it

So we went to Utah for Alyna's wedding.  Obviously I didn't get any pictures of that. . .  that's what the professionals are for.  We have lots of other pictures though.  

We left at 2:30 in the morning and drove. Riley has always been a good traveler, especially with an iPad.  We didn't know how Tanner would be.  He was pretty good.  He slept until we got to Monticello (the first 6 hours) which was awesome.  He got tired of being in the car around Salt Lake, but he did good.

Riley played with these cars every day for at least an hour.

Ukulele playing.  Except he called it a violin and tried to put it on his shoulder.

Cousins!

More cousins

Tired cousins

First family picture with all four of us. . . kind of lame that it took 3 months.  Oh well,  we all look pretty good.

Tanner got blessed while we were there.  He's pretty handsome.

Riley and Tanner with 4 great-grandpas, 2 grandpas, and Dad.

7 Great grandparents, 4 grandparents, 2 parents, and 2 little boys who didn't get naps and wanted to go home.

Riley got to touch a school bus.  My parent's neighbor has one, they weren't home.  So don't tell Riley that if they were home he would have been able to go inside.

Comparing the school buses

It was a fun trip, but we are happy to be home with our very nice weather.  Also happy we don't have to make another 12 hour drive anytime soon