Sunday, March 31, 2013

Easter

Ty was a bit spoiled this Easter. He got to have 4 separate Easter egg hunts. Our apartment also held their annual, "Spring Time Party" the Saturday before where they have an egg hunt, some crafts, and a petting zoo. That was our first Easter party. Ty always loves feeding the animals at the petting zoo the best.
 
 His friend Allan came over to help feed the sheep.
 
 
That same day in the afternoon was the ward Easter egg hunt. I was worried he wouldn't really be into it because the first egg hunt he pretty much just stood there and stared at the eggs. Luckily he was much more into it at the ward party.
 Waiting for his turn to start hunting for eggs.

After that we headed home to dye our eggs. The previous year we had just skipped the dyeing and put the shrink wrap things on. This year I decided to let Ty dye his eggs and do the shrink wrap and stickers. He loved it!
 Ty's eggs
 

The next day was Sunday and we have 9am church so I wasn't sure if we'd get to do an egg hunt before church, but luckily the Easter Bunny visited late the night before and got everything set up for Ty. Ty also woke up a little earlier than normal so we got the camera ready and went downstairs to the front room to look for eggs. Ty also found his basket full of fun goodies.
 
 inspecting what's inside his eggs
After church we got changed then headed up to Tiffany's house for our last egg hunt and dinner together as a family. It was especially fun because Will, Becky and their kids had come out because Will was having a job interview the next day so we had all the cousins together for the first time since Christmas. Sadly Grammy and Papa didn't get to see them all together.

Friday, March 15, 2013

Landon's Birthday

I love living close to family so I can go visit for special occasions like birthdays. This particular birthday was a very special one for Landon. He turned 8 and made the decision to be baptized. It was a very spiritual occasion, but we made sure that the next day was full of regular birthday fun too!
 Picking up groceries for the party.
 We went out to a Mexican restaurant after his baptism and this is what they do to birthday kids.
 
 Ty enjoyed his kazoo from his party bag.
 Landon turning 8 also meant joining cub scouts and the pinewood derby was just a few days after his birthday. Papa was great and helped make a car for each boy.

Monday, March 4, 2013

Animeland Wasabi 2013

Our first weekend in March we had a convention. This was the first time we had gone a second time to a specific convention, but it felt like a completely new convention. Part of that was the fact that they had changed what hotel was holding it and I'm actually grateful for that because the first hotel was really hard to get to.  This was also the first convention that I dressed up for the cosplay competition and Ty didn't. Ty still wore costumes both days, but I decided not to put him in the contest. I always love seeing all the wonderful costumes at conventions and seeing the different levels of effort on costumes.

 
 
 
 
 
 I LOVE the wolf Link! So much detail!
 
 This was actually the only photo we got of me in my costume. I'm dressed at Kuruna from Rune Factory 3.