Easter Weekend

Over Easter weekend we headed to the coast with my family. Kara, Eric and Annika were up north for a couple weeks so we all decided to go to Monterey for a few days. I must say that it wasn't our most relaxing trip ever, with 2 babies, a 2 1/2 year old, 6 adults and 3 bedrooms it made for an interesting weekend. At least Nana and Papa were able to sleep well at night. However, it is always beautiful there and to be out of our house and spending time with family was worth it. Here are a few pictures from our weekend.

Uncle Kevin holding Annika for the first time.

Morgan's first Ritz cracker. She loved it, and ate 2 more! I made my mom feed it to her so I didn't have to worry about her choking. You think I'd be over that with my second baby.

On Saturday we left Morgan with Nana and Papa and took Ethan to the aquarium. It was so fun to just focus on Ethan for a few hours and have lots of fun together. I think he remembered parts of the aquarium from our previous visit. The first thing he wanted to see was the sea otters. He is hugging a statue of a sea otter in this picture.

This is a picture of a sea dragon. They just opened up a sea horse exhibit in the aquarium. It was amazing to see the different sea horses and sea dragons. What a creative God we have!

Mommy and Ethan by the sea horse exhibit. One of the most fascinating facts I learned was that sea horse males get pregnant and carry the babies. Now there's an idea!

Morgan loved Annika and would break into a big smile whenever she saw her. She also loved trying to kiss her. Annika wasn't always to sure about all the love from cousin.

Headed to the beach on our last morning. It was really cold there all weekend.

The cousins on the beach.

Ethan is getting quite agile on the rocks. He climbed on top of this one all by himself!

Easter Egg Hunt

These are tulips from the bouquet of tulips Kevin bought me for my birthday.

Last week Wednesday I had a few friends over with their kids and we had a little Easter party. Between the 7 of us we have 10 boys and 2 girls, and my sister was there with Annika, so that brought our girl total up to 3. The boys all had a blast playing in the dirt and looking for eggs. This was Ethan's second Easter egg hunt and he really got into it. After everyone left Kara watched the kids for me while I tutored and Ethan made her hide the eggs again so he could find them again. It was pretty fun to watch.

Morgan and Reece playing together. It's a good thing they have each other with all the boys around!

Ethan stared at this egg from every angle. He couldn't believe someone put the egg on his baseball tee.

All the kids, minus 2 who had to leave early. Note Jared on the right side who was way more into his candy than holding his brother, or looking at the camera.

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On an unrelated note. Here is Morgan posing for her 31 week picture. It is hard to believe she is getting so big! This week will be week 33!

Surprise!

My wonderful husband totally outdid himself this year for my birthday. Last year when I turned 29 I warned him that next year I would be turning the BIG 3-0 and I expected something bigger than a card and bouquet of flowers. Now don't get me wrong, I LOVE when he gets me flowers, but I just felt like turning 30 deserved something big. Well, I wasn't expecting the party he threw for me.

On Friday, March 27 we had called a babysitter to come because we had our Young Couples Bible study that night. During the day he called me and said he ran into our babysitter at school and asked her to come early so we could grab dinner before Bible study. The sitter was supposed to arrive at 6:00 and when it was 6:15 and she finally got there and Kevin still wanted to go to a sit down restaurant for dinner before our 7:00 bible study I started to get a little suspicious. But I was puzzled what he had planned because I didn't think he would cancel Bible study. Well he did! When we arrived at the restaurant we headed over to the bar because "we can get in and out faster at the bar". But Kevin bypassed the bar and opened the door to their private room and there were 26 of our friends waiting to say surprise! It was a great night. I felt very loved and it was fun to spend the evening with so many friends. Thanks Honey!



Not the most flattering picture of me, but I wanted to include it because it was a surprise and because you can see Kevin talking to someone in the background. There was a lady right outside the room and when we walked up to the door she said "Are you looking for the surprise party?" And then when I walked in Kevin said "Yeah, it's for her!" I guess the lady felt pretty stupid the rest of the night.

The beautiful table. We had appetizers (some of my favorites) and Kevin had selected 2 salad and 4 entree options for everyone. It was yummy!

Enjoying some drinks.

Thanks Kevin for loving me and throwing me a great 30th birthday party!

The Driving Range

Since Morgan has had a few posts dedicated to her, I thought I should write a post about my son. Ethan was introduced to the driving range about a month ago. Kevin took him to the course around the corner from our house and he LOVED it! Kevin taught him all the rules about staying in one place and staying out of the way of the other golfers. He even took him on the putting green and taught him how to hit "gentle." Since then he has gone a few more times with Kevin and has also gone with my parents to their country club. He apparently draws quite a crowd and loves to chat with the old guys. I finally made it out last weekend with him to take a couple pictures. Here he is, the next Tiger:)

Every time he hit a ball he would say, "Did you see that?"

He even made a couple in the holes on the putting green.

I suspect many hours will be spent on the golf course this summer.