Dying Easter Eggs

This is what your kid looks like when you let her have free reign over the easter egg dye (at the age of 2.5). She had so much fun. If you asked her if she wanted to dye easter eggs she would get very upset and say, "NOOO!!! I don't want my Easter eggs to die." So we had to say that we were going to "color" Easter eggs if we were around her, LOL!

Notice that all of the eggs ended up being blue/green. This happens to be the two colors she had sitting in front of her, haha. Go figure.

Baby Animal Days

After the crazy Easter egg hunt at Friendship Park, we took Aspen to Baby Animal Days up in Wellsville. It was so much fun. A bunch of local farmers brought baby animals to this event and they let the kids actually hold them or pet them. Aspen loved it, she seems to have such an interest in animals and she has zero fear whatesoever of any creature she comes accross.

I loved the bunnies, they were my favorite.

I think the baby duck was Aspen's favorite. She kept giving it kisses and talking to it.

Look at how creepy the goat's pupils are! They are like little tiny bowties....CREEPY!

Aspen loved talking to the sheep. Everytime they would "baaaa" her whole body would jump and then she would bust out laughing.

They had a big blow up slide for the kids to play on. The only problem was that there was a 3-5 minute time limit. So when the time was up it was next to impossible to get her out of there and when we did you would have thought we were beating her with the tantrum she through.

She was so proud of herself for making it to the top that she would yell, "Yay, I did it!!" and clap everytime before going down the slide. :) This is such a fun event, I would recommend it to everyone.

Easter Egg Hunt

The day before Easter we took Aspen to the Easter egg hunt at Friendship Park. We were shocked when we got there ten minutes before the hunt started that we had to park about 10 blocks away and literally job to the park to get there before we missed it. We were totally in awe at the amount of people there. This is our first egg hunt, haha, so we had no idea it was such a big thing! Aspen absolutly loved it. It was so much fun to watch her and the hundreds of other little kids race out onto the lawn and grab all the eggs. It literally was over in about 60 seconds! After she found all the eggs she could, she just took off running accross the park. I asked her what she was doing and she said she was gonna find more eggs. She ran all the way accross the whole length of the park thinking that she would find just one more if she kept running, haha. It was so much fun!

Gone Fishin'

There is nothing that my husband enjoys more than fly fishing. Him and Brandon (Karlee's boyfriend) go fishing every single Saturday and as many days in between that they can get away with. Here are just a few pics of some beautiful fish that they have caught along the Weber River. This first pic is of the sunrise on thier way up to fish.
Brandon's nearly 22" Brown....beautiful.

Happy Easter from Aunt Rae and Uncle Larry

Sindra's Last Night of Freedom!!

I through a bachelorette party for my cousin Sindra. We had a blast. We had a rep from Slumber Parties come and give a presentation so everyone could order some fun presents for Sindra! Boy did that poor girl have her work cut out for her; she literally had never had a more unruley group, LOL! Afterward we went to a little bar in SLC and sang karaoke and danced! It was a blast; however, the next morning wasn't so much fun!
We taped off the door with caution tape that said: "Caution, Wild Girls!"
The Bachelorette!Me, my sister (Karlee), SindraThis was our attempt to hide "double chins." LOL
Yes folks, plenty of tequila was involved....haha...

The party crew!

Cute decorations!

S.O.S.

Okay all you mamas out there: HELP ME! Raising a 2 and a 1/2 year old has got to be one of the biggest challenges I have ever experienced. I need any and all advice any of you have. Did you use a certain parenting book? Have a specific mode of discipline? What did you do? How do you know if it is typical 2 year old behavior or if your child is just spoiled rotten??? Help, help, help ladies!!! Aspen is the most amazing thing to ever happen to me, but I think she may be the end of me!!! LOL! I am pretty sure I know that we are enabling a lot of her behavior, and the changes are going to have to be with mine and Justin's behavior more so than hers....but I would really like any advice that any of you have! Thanks!!!

Organzied already...

Aspen woke up really grumpy one morning and didn't want me to get her out of her crib. She had a whole stack of laundry sitting on her dresser that needed to be put away. So I decided I would put away the clothes while she chippered up a bit so I didn't have to fight her over getting out of bed. She decided that she needed to help me and turned her crib into a closet. It was so cute to watch how serious she was about hanging up her clothes. Anyone who knows me knows how crazy I am about everything in the closet being lined up a certain way and facing a certain direction!!! I think she is already the same way, LOL! Her method didn't make a lot of sense to me, but it was very SPECIFIC in her mind. She probably stayed in her crib for over an hour playing with her clothes.

Aspen will very rarely smile for a picture and pose. She was so proud of her accomplishment that she said, "I say cheese with my clothes." Then she posed and smiled. haha....so cute.

Aspen and I both make this face when we are thinking really hard.