A Happy Easter

We had such a fun Easter weekend. We always get together at Moni's house and color our Easter eggs. As usual it was a blast. It get's more and more fun each year as the kids get older and understand more and can do more. Josie LOVED coloring the eggs and of course the egg hunt after. She was so proud of herself when she got to hide them for the big kids. Thanks Kristin for having Josie and Charlie over for an egg hunt on Saturday. The yard was FILLED with eggs and Josie didn't really know where to start, there were so many eggs. All Charlie cared about was the little play set with the slide. I think he picked up one egg. We had fabulous Easter dinners at Moni and Grandpa's house and Allison's house. It is always so great to be surrounded by family during a holiday!

Here is Josie extremely proud of her eggs.

Charlie hardly goes anywhere anymore with out his ball.

Easter Sunday in their new outfits.
Josies new fake smile crackes me up!

What a handsome little guy!

I have more luck getting a good picture when they

don't know I am taking one. She is so adorable!

They got a new "Spring" present.

Perfect for playing with outside.

What a wonderful time of year! It is so exciting that Spring

is here and Summer is right around the corner!
(as I am writing this, it is snowing outside... oh well)

Charlie's first buzz

Oh sweet Charlie and his mullet! I was getting so SICK of his crazy hair so Charles gave him a buzz. He is such an adorable boy with big glowing blue eyes and rosey cheeks, but his hair just wasn't doing him any justice. Here are a few before picture with the mullet.

Notice the rats nest on the back of his head... nice.

Here he is with a skullet. For those of you who are not familiar with what a skullet is... it is a mullet with no hair on top, usually the men are totally or partially bald.

And here he is with a new hair do and a new personality.

He became the happiest boy the second his hair was cut.

It was like he was let out of jail with his new do.

He was being so hyper and playful and Thomas

wasn't sure what to think about it all.

He went from nasty mullet, to a yucky skullet to the most

adorable boy on the planet!!! He looks like a totally different little boy.

His eyes just pop now and he is so happy and smiley all the time.

I love my little Bobo. He is such a joy!

This is my favorite picture of the two Charles together EVER!!! So cute!

St. Patrick's Day bunnies

Josie was so excited about St. Patrick's Day. She was excited to wear green so she wouldn't get pinched (and reminded everyone that they needed to wear green too) and excited that the Leprecans turned the milk green and left shamrocks all over the house. It was a really fun day. I fixed a good old Irish dinner of corned beef, cabbage and potatoes. Lauren came to dinner and so did Andy and Melissa and their family and they brought green jello and broccoli. The Smith's joined us as well and Lori brought her delicious carrot cake with green frosting. It was all so fun but the hightlight of the day was when Blaine brought over some 7 day old bunnies for the kids to see and hold. They were so tiny and cute. The kids LOVED it!

Andy and his girls Olivia and Eliza.


Charles , Charlie and Josie


They girls LOVED this bunny. Josie named it Jasmine and Eliza named it Lucy.

Cute Eliza giving the bunny a "kiss with her nose".

Josie didn't want to put it down. She LOVED holding it!

Josie turns 3!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Our sweet little girl turned 3 today! It really blows my mind that the time has passed so fast. We waited so long for her to come and now look at us... 2 with one coming in July! Who would have ever guessed that we would have such a family. Well Josie is such a joy in my life. She is so amazing! I am amazed by her every single day by the things she does and the things she says. We were watching American Idol the other night and there was a story about a girl who has been singing since she was 3 and Charles asked Josie if she likes to sing, (and she does, she sings her own little songs all day long) and Josie said "Na, I like to cut things with my scissors and play with my animals" all matter of factly like come on daddy duh! And does she ever! She is a paper cutting, animal loving fool! And we love her so dearly and can't imagine life without her.

We went to the Aquarium this afternoon and Josie was sooooooo excited to show her daddy everything because he had never been there before. She was running all over the place showing him where all the different "ocean animals" were.

She was in total heaven and so happy to

be showing daddy everything!

Charlie loved crawling through the little caves.


Then we went to Fat Cats for dinner and bowling. I told Josie what the plan was for the evening and she kept asking me "What's called bowling?" That means what is bowling. She has never been before so I tried to show her and explain it to her but she still had no idea until we got there and she got so spazzy and wild and could hardly contain herself she was so excited!

Charlie would try to pick up daddy's 15lb. ball and get all mad

because he couldn't pick it up. He had a fun time watching though.

Josie thought she was so strong because

she could pick up her 8lb. ball.

She was so proud of herself after she

would launch her ball onto the lane.

She couldn't wait to see how many
pins her ball knocked down.

It felt like it took forever some times for

the ball to finally make it to the pins.

I thought the ball was going to stop mid lane,

but somehow it kept rolling along.

Giving daddy 10 after a great turn!

She loved to watch Charles go on his turn.

She was so excited about everything!

Bowling and pizza was so much fun!

Then it was home for cake and presents! Thankfully Scout left us some of the cake. You can see where she had licked some of the cake away. We cut that part off and the cake was great :)

Charlie look pretty excited about this gift!

Charles gave her the best zoology book ever! She LOVED it!

And she got a princess castle. YEAH!

She about died when she had to go to bed

and couldn't play with it anymore.

It is always a bonus when they actually like

there presents and really play with them.

What a great day for all of us. This morning in the bath she kept singing "I'm so happy, I'm so happy" over and over and she truly was all day. She is such a smart, talented, beautiful, funny, active, charming little girl and we love her. Happy 3rd Birthday Josie!

Charles and Josie go skiing!

On Friday Charles took Josie skiing at Alta on the free tow rope hill. She was so excited to go! She was especially excited to go with some friends, the Petersons.

Charlie and I hung out on the slope taking pictures.


Steph and Lincoln heading up the hill.

John and Logan

Charles and Josie

Logan is like a PRO. He is 5 and doing awesome!

Way to go John... such a good teacher!!!

Lincoln is 3 and he was amazing... it was his first time!

He had such a big grin on his face the whole time.

Charles taught Josie how to keep her balance with her arms out.

She was having such a fun time.

It seems a little sureal that this is my little girl! All those years working on the slopes and seeing the cute little skiers out on the hill learning how to ski, and now to think that Josie is one of them. CRAZY and fun!

Look how cute! Charles is so patient and sweet with her!

She did so well and so did Charles teaching her.

She was getting tired by the end and needed a little break.

The skiing Peterson family!

It was so nice to get out of the yuck for the afternoon!

We are so fortunate to have the mountains in our back yards!