Easter Weekend 2010

Our Easter weekend was so much fun this year! We stated out Saturday morning making mint brownies for a potluck/Easter egg hunt. Abby always wants to help me when I'm mixing or measuring anything. She helped out so much that I let her lick the frosting off the beaters. She loved it!

Then we went to an Easter egg hunt at Abby's preschool teacher's house. They do this every year as a ward activity, and then invite a few other friends.

Abby had to show me her basket of eggs.....

Then try out some candy.

What a silly girl.

Here is Abby's Easter basket. I got a good deal on "The Princess and the Frog" as well as the other movie things in there. Turns out she really likes it, and we have watched it too many times since Sunday.

Abby got really excited when she saw her basket.......

and all the goodies in it!

Hope everyone had a great weekend too!

26 weeks

Well, here I am at 26 weeks.

Only 14 or less to go!

Just wanted to brag.....

I've been really out of the couponing lately. This pregnancy has been a rough one, and that is one of many things I've let go. But, this week's ad at Safeway was just too good to pass up. I got all this stuff for $24.20, and saved 83%!

Here's what I got:

2 Corn Pops

2 Corn Flakes

7 Quaker Oat squares cereal

10 Old Orchard frozen juices

15 boxes various Betty Crocker fruit snacks

1 box Kellogs fruit snacks

2 boxes Nutri-Grain bars

3 bags fresh express salad blend

1 2lb Tillamook cheese

2 bottles Marie's pourable dressing

and, 3 lbs red delicious apples.

(If any of you know how fast Gerritt goes through cereal you'll know that 11 boxes won't last long.)

Finally, a pay period since I got pregnant that I didn't go over budget! YES!

Big Girl Bed

Last year Gerritt bought me a sewing machine for Mother's Day. I begged him for it, so I could continue my journey in becoming the epitome of domesticity.  Alas, sewing and I are not friends. In the past ten months since Mother's Day, I have completed two projects. And have accumulated many unfinished or unstarted projects. One said project is a quilt for Abby. I wanted her to have something special for when she moved up to the "big girl bed." Since I didn't want to wait too much longer to transition her out of her crib, I decided to take her to Wal-Mart and find something that could be used right now. She picked out a very pink comforter, and now LOVES having her big girl bed! (We'll see how bedtime plays out later.)

Here are a few pics:

A LONG overdue update!

Well, it has been quite a long time since I last posted anything. So here's a quick re-cap (in pics) of our last couple of months!

I'm 22 weeks pregnant as of yesterday! We're having a BOY! This is the first belly pic I've taken so far....poor kid.

Abby finally has started to let me do her hair. Doesn't she look like a little girl now. (Where has all the time gone?) She even likes me to put make-up on her. (She only gets a tiny bit of light eyeshawdow, and the rest is all pretend.)

Abby got her first "real" haircut in January. It went really smoothly, but mostly because Abby is afraid of strangers.

We had a nice relaxing Christmas. I didn't feel up to doing anything too spectacular!

Abby got her very own camera! She still LOVES it two months later!

We all got PJ's on Christmas Eve.

Another big hit! Play-doh!

P.S. I'll try to stay on top of the blog from now on since (for the most part) my morning(anytime) sickness is gone. ;-)