Girl's Weekend

I was going through my pictures and realized I didn't blog about our girl's weekend in March. It was supposed to be a little get together to welcome Sadie back to the scene (post baby) but it turned out to be a much larger affair. We all met up in Boise for 2 days of good times. We chatted, we lounged, we ate, we drank, we bonded, and we even showed off a few of our bowling skills.


Here is Laura, Darcy and Margo showing off their bowling prizes...



The whole gang at Chandler's for drinks...

Marce, Elisha and Laura in the limo...

Sadie and I feasting on delicious salmon at Barbacoa...

The end.

Happy 3rd Birthday, Austin!

I can't believe my baby is 3 years old! He really is my best little buddy and I can't squeeze him enough sometimes. He is so independent now and wants to do most things on his own. We are having full blown conversations and he shocks me with the amount of information he retains and regurgitates. Lately has been talking nonstop about a new bike, hence the birthday present below! He's quite an avid sportsman already and loves anything to do with a baseball, basketball, football, golf ball, etc. He's actually pretty coordinated and surprises us with this athletic capabilities. He's active and on the move most of the time (which wears his momma out) so luckily our dog Bailey steps in to entertain sometimes. Unfortunately he gets the brunt of 3 year old actions but he's always a good sport.

Austin on his Huffy Rockstar bike!


Austin insisted we go to Jakob's house to show him his new bike. I have a feeling there's going to be a lot of miles between these two!

Austin's birthday party request was to go to the "foam pit." It's a gymnastics studio that has open play time and he absolutely loves to jump into the giant foam pit. We invited a few of his buddies and had a Toy Story themed party. Here's Austin all smiles in the pit.

Daddy couldn't resist jumping in with him!

A few super bounces on the giant trampoline.

The whole gang: Jakob, Aaron, Kalei, Ryia, Austin, Carter and Ava (Jake had to leave early)

And a birthday is not complete without a family celebration at home. Three candles top his strawberry cupcake!

We love you so much little man!

Easter

We had an eventful Easter weekend filled with all the things that make Easter special. Brett was MIA for most of the festivities, but more on that later.

Here is Austin and I in our Sunday best for Easter services at church. Mary bought him the most adorable 3-piece suit for the occasion, complete with a purple shirt and tie. He was a-d-o-r-a-b-l-e! Austin with cousin Ava at church.
The Easter bunny brought Austin a basket full of goodies PLUS a skateboard! He'd been obsessing about skateboards for over a month so I was so glad the Easter bunny put an end to that! One lucky kid.

My sweet boy anticipating the start of the egg hunt at church.
Another pic with the cousins, Jakob and Aaron... Eggs galore...over 19,000 of them!

And, they're off!

A full basket, egg hunt success!
Oh, and back to Brett. Austin was a bit wild and crazy the Thursday before Easter weekend. Brett was trying to settle him down for bed and brought out some books to read. Well, Austin was in no mood to read and threw one of the books back at him. The corner of the book hit him right in the left eye. At first I thought Brett was overreacting a bit but by the end of the night he was still in so much pain (silly me ;-). We took him to urgent care the next morning where we discovered he had a significant corneal abrasion. He laid in a dark room on high powered pain meds all weekend. Poor guy. He said it was the worst pain he's ever felt. I guess eye injuries are the worst because the pain medication doesn't work well for the eyeball. But alas, his eyeball is healing well and he's back to his old self. Austin was a bit out of sorts all weekend because he's a sensitive kid and he knew he hurt daddy pretty bad, but he's back to his old self again too. Accidents happen and I'm sure this won't be the last. This was a quick snapshot after a follow-up appointment with an eye doctor.