Easter Weekend

Avery and Pierson woke up really happy on Saturday excited for the Easter weekend to be here. We had an Easter egg hunt early Saturday afternoon for the neighborhood kids. We thought there were going to be 6 kids and bought candy accordingly but it turned out to be just these two and E, who was not even a year yet.

So Avery and S had lots of Easter eggs to find! They loved it because they found eggs at the same pace.

Avery finally got the hang of Easter egg hunts by this time (she went to a Primary activity with Michael and didn't quite grasp it) and found lots of eggs.

Here are the Easter egg hunters with all their loot. Aren't they just so darn cute!

Pierson was taking a nap during the hunting action, but woke up to see the end results and to flash us this handsome smile!

On Sunday we went to a friend's house in between Conference sessions and ate lunch and had yet another Easter egg hunt. Avery got to search for the same eggs she found the day before :) I love having little kids!P and me! We were having fun watching all the kids scramble around trying to find eggs.

Ave and Michael after the hunt.

This is sadly the best picture I got of these two on Easter. For some reason our family was not great picture takers that weekend.

My point exactly:

But at least we all are together in the picture, right? Who cares if we aren't looking and if we are we look goofy.

We really had a great weekend and felt really blessed to be able to hear the prophet and apostles speak of Heavenly Father and His Son, Jesus Christ. I am so grateful for the sacrifice Christ made in my behalf. I hope that I can remember Him a little more each day.

On a lighter note, this video of Pierson is funny. Now we know where his tree trunk legs come from!

A day in the life of...

a 6 month old! Pierson eats a delicious breakfast of peaches and oatmeal that he throws up all over mom. Maybe it wasn't so delicious... Then you get so messy that you have to take a bath while Mom cleans up breakfast.

Then you get dressed and look super cute so mom will give you tons of kisses and attention, sometimes too much :)

Then after taking a wonderful nap you go and play with your besties and talk about your crazy moms.

Then mom gets too wrapped up in the day to take pictures of much else... whoops.

Pierson is a big healthy baby! The doc was impressed with his size, as are most people :) I mean look at those knees and thighs!

Pierson has totally found his voice these past couple days. He has always babbled and talked but lately he has been talking louder and yelling at points. He will screech in excitement too. It is pretty funny.

Pierson can roll both ways now and soon I am sure he will be making his way all over the floor. He still is toothless. He still doesn't sleep all the way through the night... but he does take good naps.

Pierson is such a happy baby. The kid is so mellow and will just hang out most of the time. If you give him attention he will smile and coo and even screech at you. He is just so darn cute and happy and we love him to pieces!

Sundays in 2010

My mom made a goal this year to take a picture of the family every Sunday so I decided that I would try to as well. I haven't been super great at it but I have taken quite a few. I just forget to post them. So here is pictures of our family from this past Sunday to the very first Sunday of January. Mike and Pierson were the only ones captured this past Sunday. I think Avery was asleep by this point. aren't they both so handsome. Man I love those boys!

Here is the babes the week before. I love Avery's headband she made in nursery. Those flowers are still alive: aren't you proud?!

I just love this picture. These two seriously love each other so much. They both giggle when they hear each other come into a room and love giving loves to one another. It makes me so happy to see them together.

I think Pierson's pants look dorky in this picture but he looked so cute that day! This was taken later in the night so we are all looking a little scraggly.

Only Pierson and I made this picture because we were in UTAH! Poor Ave and Dad stayed back home. It was pretty cold that day, it was the first Sunday in March.

A wonderful picture taken by Avery. If I leave the camera out even for a millisecond she is begging for it and taking shots left and right. Surprisingly, this one isn't too bad.

Here's me and my baby girl! I just think she is so darn cute and her personality makes her even cuter.

Here's P and I on the same Sunday. He was looking mighty handsome right before his nap time!

This was Valentine's day. We had a romantic dinner with the missionaries over and everything, jk! Pierson barely fit in his blazer. There was barely room for movement in there. Avery looks as beautiful as always!

This was the week before. Can you tell Avery is scared of falling and Pierson is none the wiser? Cute babies!

Nap time was desperately needed in this picture but I atleast got it, right?

This picture was taken sometime in January, I think towards the end. Look how much looser the khakis are on Pierson compared to the earlier shots :) He is one growing boy!

And here is the first week in January at Pierson's blessing. I didn't do too bad so far. Maybe in April I will take a picture of every Sunday... MAYBE.

New Tricks

He's been getting better this past week about sitting up! He's not great, but he has done up to 15 minutes! His balance usually gets thrown off by his sister, whether because she knocks him over or he tries to follow her and she goes all over the place and so he just gives up. But he has been doing pretty good. Avery sat at 5 months so he is right there with his sissy!

Here's a video of our little buddy boo being all tricky!

Little Swimming Avery

She even had tanlines afterwards!

Seaworld

All the news on Seaworld reminded me that I haven't posted about our trip there yet. We went mid-January and thankfully the whales only did tricks that day. We started the day watching the killer whales and oohed and aahed at all the cool flips and splashes they did. It was a really cool show and I am really sad for the trainer that lost her life. We met up with some of our favorite people in the world the Andrews! Kate was one of Avery's first best friends (along with cousin Brooklyn) and so it was so fun to see them again. Here are those little missies at the seal show. It was pretty funny and really impressive.

There was a really big play park that Michael and Avery had a blast on. I think Michael had even more fun that what Avery did :)

Here's the whole clan (minus Michael) before we went and saw the penguins. I have to say out of all the animals I feel the worst for the penguins. They just looked so sad standing there and there were so many of them! I think Happy Feet made me feel even worse for them.

Avery loved the sharks. She will still talk to us about them to this day.

I had to feed Pierson before we left so we decided to go and watch the Shamu Show one more time. It was just as good as the first time. We left a little early from the show and started our trip home. It was a really fun day! And now we have Seaworld passes so if you come and visit us we will take you there!

Oh and a side note. On our way to Seaworld Avery got carsick! All of the sudden she got really fussy and then she just puked every where. Ick. I hate puke so I was gagging as I was cleaning it up and we were trying to find somewhere to buy her a new shirt. We had to go out of the way a little bit and as Avery started barfing again I told Mike to forget it and just get us to Seaworld. She just wore her jacket with nothing under, but it worked and she felt fine once out of the car.

Pierson's Blessing II

Well I am FINALLY getting to the beginning of January. I am so darn behind it isn't even funny. I like to tell myself that if I had a computer during the day then I would be better about blogging. It's just another thing I have to add to my night and it usually doesn't take precedence. But I will try to be better. I am excited to post about Pierson's blessing because it was such a great weekend. Grandma Adams came into town to make it even better :)

Can you believe these chubby legs! I love them. I am so glad that we live in California because if we lived anywhere else, Pierson wearing Michael's short sleeved romper wouldn't have worked as well. It was really warm that weekend too. I think it was high 60s maybe even low 70s that day.

I think Pierson looks so darn cute with the boy bonnet on. Makes his cheeks stand out even more.

Can't give Pierson all the attention! Avery wanted to be part of all the fun.

Grandma A knitted this sweater for Pierson. She said that she started it and it wasn't working so she stopped but then decided last minute to bring it in case she was bored. Well it was perfect because she finished it the day before he was blessed and it looked so cute. I was searching for a light blue sweater before I knew she was making one so I was really excited to have handmade one from our very own Grandma. It'll be one of Pierson's first heirlooms :)

Good looking crew! I was of course trying to throw myself together at this point so they took family pictures without me.

At church, after the blessing.

Sunny skies = squinty eyes, but at least we are all looking!

While Grandma was here we decided to go to the beach. We went and got In-n-Out and then headed to Newport Beach. It was so warm and sunny, you would have never guessed it was the first weekend of January. It was 70 degrees! Grandma made sure to call the Idahoans to tell them how great the weather was. They were busy building snowmen while we were sticking our toes in the beach!

They are just so cute together. It makes my heart melt.

Grandma and Avery running from the waves. Avery loves running from the waves, it is her favorite thing to do at the beach, and its even better when Grandma is holding your hand.

Don't worry Pierson can breathe, I just didn't want him to get sunburned.

Little family picture. I sure do love Michael and our babies. Life just doesn't get much better than this!

This is Grandma and the babes right before she left on Monday. We were so glad that she came down and shared this special time with us. Family really means a lot and we are so grateful to have such wonderful family. Thanks Grandma for the really fun weekend (two months later)!