Visitors

We recently enjoyed some visits from Daniel's brothers, Bryce and his wife Lynsey and cute son Gavin, and Steven. My sister Emily joined us for a trip to the zoo in Salt Lake City and we all enjoyed our day there. The day before Steven left we went to Bridal Veil Falls and soaked in the sun after all the snow we've been having. It was great to see you all--thanks for coming!

Spencer has been learning the signs for some animals, including the elephant, so it was fun to see him see one for real.

Sorry I didn't have more to say about the rest of the pictures but Spencer's awake and ready to eat and I wanted to get this posted after starting it last week, as you can see by the date on top.

Fun with a Balloon

Happy Easter!!

We went to a Easter Egg Hunt at the church on Saturday (since it started raining) and Spencer did a great job putting eggs and candy in his bucket--it happens to be one of his favorite past times so he must have just thought it was time to pick up the mess on the floor. I was recently called to the Primary Presidency (working with the children at church) so I got to prepare a small lesson to share before the egg hunt. I appreciated thinking about Christ's resurrection in simple terms because as incredible and difficult as it is to grasp, it really is something that children can understand too. When we show the kind of faith and acceptance children do, we're really making progress towards becoming more like our Savior. I know that He lives and that because of His resurrection we too will live again. There is no greater news than this!!!

The sun finally came out today so Spencer got to play for a bit before dinner.

My happy family
(And yes, though it's not super clear in this picture, I DID get my hair cut, quite short.)

Breakfast with Gramma

My mom and sister Emily arrived by train last night and this morning Spencer was happy to see some new, though familiar, faces in our living room. He was not shy like they thought he might be but jabbered away and eagerly helped gramma finish her breakfast after eating his own. I brought my mom to the airport today as she continued her journey to California to visit my brother while Emily stayed and watched Spencer (well, it happened to be his nap time so she just chilled while he slept). Emily decided to move back to Utah and I am SOOO excited she's here!

Brushing your teeth is fun to do

Super Macro

As I was trying to take a picture of the necklace in the following post, I pulled out the camera manual and found out how to take really close-up photos, using the super macro mode. While I was at it I took a few pictures of my quilt, and since blogs are nice places to put photos, I thought I'd put them here. I rather liked the rich colors and detailed texture. They look even better when enlarged.

Win it forward ...

I just got lucky and won something on a friend's blog and now I am passing it forward. How lucky are you? I double dare you to accept this challenge. This game involves a few of my favorite things: handmade goods, creativity, and gift-giving.

Here are the tagging instructions: The first five people to respond to this post will get something made by me! My choice. For you.

This offer does have some restrictions and limitations:
1. I make no guarantees that you will like what I make!
2. What I create will be just for you.
3. It'll be done this year. (might be a little while)
4. You have no clue what it's going to be. It may be a story. It may be poetry or an article on properly cleaning your face before a masque. I may draw or paint something. I may bake you something and mail it to you. Who knows? Not you, that's for sure!
5. I reserve the right to do something extremely strange.

The catch? Oh, the catch is that you must re-post this on your blog and offer the same to the first 5 people who do the same on your blog. The first 5 people to do so and leave a comment telling me they did win a FAB-U-LOUS homemade gift by me! Oh, and be sure to post a picture of what you win when you get it.



Look what I got from Kristy! Sorry I was a slow poke about posting this, but thank you Kristy for this very cool necklace medallion. That's so neat that you made it. For you lucky five who get a gift from me, please do not have high expectations ... that way you may actually be impressed.