Easter with family

The next day, (after the shower) was Easter Sunday and conference. Aubree and Sophie woke up to find the Easter bunny came to visit! I thought I was doing pretty well by only putting candy in three of her eggs but I forgot Sophie won't really eat hers so it doubled! But she did get little squishy bunnies in her eggs. (I was so excited when I found them.) Sophie didn't really know what was going on, but she had fun with all the grass and absolutely loved the little bunny necklaces. I love any reason to surprise the girls especially with deeper meaning behind it.

We had already celebrated with Dave's family in preparation of the week so we celebrated with mine. We watched the morning session together, and during the break I invited Karen and the boys to come do eggs with Aubree. They loved it. I only made six eggs because I knew we wouldn't eat them later, and I just wanted to introduce her to it....not bombard her with them. And it was the perfect amount. She wasn't overwhelmed and really enjoyed watching them turn colors, draw and then do stickers. Didn't they turn out beautiful? I think Sammy had fun too. And his were also beautiful.

Then we all played ligretto together. Always fun. The second session started so our friends left and we watched the session before going up to my Granni's. Then we went up to my Granni's house who lives in Layton. Again it was a fun time to spend together. My aunt Caryn and Granni put together an egg hunt for the kids with their names on them so it was even for everyone. Aubree was very eager to help Sophie collect hers, in fact Soph never got out the door before Aubree was done! And again we all forget camera's so no pics to document. But still a good time. My cousin Cami is getting married in the summer so we had a chance to talk to her about her plans, and boy (whom I've never met) and hear all the fun details. The food was good the company was awesome, but as always, my children made it so we only stayed for a few hours and had to leave.

On a side note, this is the first time I have seen my brother and Dad in a while. And it is crazy how they have changed. First off my "little" brother who now towers over us girls is turning into a little man. It's bizarre and I'm not sure how I feel about it. He is so cute or "handsome" as he would say. And he has a drivers permit. I swear he is still my little baby brother, but not really. And my Dad!!! Seriously, he has lost 55 lbs!!! It took me until the last day they were here to finally sort of get used to it. I stared at him a lot during their trip. I hope I didn't weird him out to much :) My Aunt Jenni kept calling him a cancer patient. And for us who never got to see the gradual change, it feels like it was just over night and now I have this skinny Dad who has smile lines (like dimples, not from age...) that I never saw before in all the fluff! It tok some getting used to, but I can again call him Dad., not Dad?

Carlee's shower

A couple weeks ago we had a big event in my family, my lil' sis got married!!! Since my family decided to desert my sister and I in Utah they all came back for the festivities. And we crammed all the festivities into one crazy week. My family drove in Friday night and Saturday, conference, was her shower. Eric's sister, Maren, and I threw the shower for her and I think it turned out pretty fun. We had a lot of people offer to help and do so much. we both have awesome families!
Along all the tables I had cute lovey quotes with pictures
And a couple of arrangements for them to keep if they want. We all forgot our camera's and thankfully my Aunt Jenni had hers so I asked her if she would take all the pics'. (Thanks :)
Me and Cha with Soph. Eric's sis and Mom and my Mom in the back.
Cute Jensen's in the back, with cousins and Aunts.
You can kind of see the pom pom's I made in the back. Carlee ended up displaying them at the reception too!

Sophie also had lots of fun. It was too bad the only night we could do the shower was on Priesthood night, so I had to take the girls. They were psycho but a lot of my family was willing to help so that I could enjoy myself.
We decided we didn't want to do any games so instead, we had Cha tell the story of how they met and got engaged and any questions people had about them. Over all it was a good turnout and it was fun to see everyone together and to meet his family.

How to Train Your Dragon

This weekend we needed to get out. We called some friends and went out to dinner and a movie. My sis and her fiance joined us for dinner and we all met up with Seth and Karen for the movie.

We ended up seeing How to Train Your Dragon. We loved it. And recommend it to anyone. It was fun trying to guess who the actors were since we didn't know beforehand. We got two of the characters right, but couldn't figure out the rest! After the movie we saw a display for Ironman 2 which got us all very excited. And we got this cute shot of Seth and Karen. You can tell by this picture they're fun to have around. :) It was a much needed date night.

Sophie's birthday

Can you believe it? I can't, she is still my baby. It's amazing how fast time goes when you look back. For her birthday we went out to McDonald's. Sad I know, but she loves chicken nuggets and fries and to play.... She had a blast. This is the first time she's gone and been able to play, so it was a perfect solution to kill time before her party. Her party.




I did it a little bit different this time around. With Aubree I invited EVERYONE, which was fun but I hate for people to think they're invited just because I want presents. So for Sophie I just invited her friends and their parents. It was really fun and everyone came. Sophie got really nice gifts from everyone (thanks again) and had a fun time with the kids she likes to play with.

She did a good job with her cake. Although she was pretty calm. It's fun to compare your kids reactions to things and Soph definitely wasn't as interested as Aubree. It was nice not having to deal with a sugar rush and then a crash. And it made the next day better too.
Happy Birthday Sophie!

Aunt Jenni

Last Friday my Aunt Jenni and Uncle Corey came out for the weekend. My sister Carlee was giving us both a perm on Saturday morning so they thought it would be fun to come out the night before and stay the night. We agreed. :)

My friend Karen had invited me to go to the New Moon release party that night and since Jenni also loves the books I invited her. It worked out perfect that this was the weekend she was here. Well Karen wasn't feeling well but Jenni and I were still up so we decided it would be fun to still go. Neither of us went to the Twilight party so we didn't really know what to expect. We found out that the actors who play Mike, Eric and Angela would be there! We went half an hour early and there were no parking places available. It was awesome. Once we got in the lines were crazy! There was a line for autographs, but since it basically wrapped around the whole store a few time we decided to get in the line only for the movie. We took turns waiting while the other went and saw the actors and stretched our legs. My aunt got some pretty good pics of them.
So here's Mike with longer dyed hair.
Angela with out her glasses. Obviously a prop. :)
And Mike.
It was fun, full of crazy die hard's, little teeny boppers in love and more than I thought normal people like us. I probably won't go for any others, but I'm glad we went. I love spending time with my Aunt and having girl nights.

Random Samplers

I've been crazy busy this month with my sister's wedding, so I have fallen out of blogging. Well I have a nice pile to catch up on and it will only get worse. So here are some fun things the girls have been doing

Sophie:

Loving spaghetti


Crawling back into the bathtub after I had her dried, lotion and diapered. (it weighed about 10lbs)
Exploring new places. Not fun for me.

Figuring out how to crawl over every barricade I build to block the stairs.
And trying to eat lotion.
Aubree:

Loves taking pictures with my phone. We have a lot of her foot shots.
Lining up toys at Sammy's house
Feeding Soph spaghetti
Helping us pick out new couches, and getting all static in the process.
And her new favorite. Dressing herself. (my least favorite)

Where's Sophie?

On the way to bed the other night I gave a quick peek into Sophie's room. (Which I hardly EVER do). And for half a second I couldn't see her. Luckily she's loud so I could hear her cute little snore. But in the dark all I saw was crazy bumpers and piles of blankets. It wasn't until my eyes adjusted that I saw her cute little face. So this is why you tie all the strands on the bumper. Lesson learned.