Easter 5k and we love Garage Sales.

Our stake “Spring Extravaganza” was a couple weeks ago. They did an Easter egg hunt for the little kids and then a 5k for anyone else. Matt and I decided that we were going to run. I didn’t expect to make it very far running but since I have been running recently I wanted to try. I managed to make it in 32.33. Not too shabby for a 29 W D 7 pregnant lady eh? Matt got a 22 something. He is fast! I was glad to see that he had a friend to run with. This was the only picture we took…

Somebody was so tired he couldn’t keep his eyes open.

Henry was really excited about his egg.

Garage Sales…

I love them and am a firm believer in not buying anything new. (Well, most things). Why spend full price when you can find them at a garage sale? I asked Matt to accompany me to a garage sale that was a neighborhood one that said it had a lot of baby things. I figure that I want his opinion on buying things for the baby. We ended up buying this swing.

It’s a Fischer Price swing and it works really well. We also bought this:

There was a Winnie the Poo one as well but I liked this one a lot better. (Not to mention I didn’t notice until later that it has my favorite animals on it (ducks and turtles). We were loading things into the car and someone said, “Let me guess, you are having a boy!” WHOOPS. We didn’t realize that both items were blue. But, oh well, I am sure baby girl won’t be offended.

I was really excited to buy the baby things…but the highlight of our finds were these two giant bean bags. The large 6’ one is a “Cuddle Sac” and the Smaller one is a “KidSac.” So the second one is a luvsac brand. Pretty neat huh? We are in the process (mostly starting next week during my spring break) of determining if we can rearrange so they fit in our house nicely. If not, we will send them to a good home.

Yay!! For now as you can see, they are just sitting on the couch waiting for a good home. When we sit on them, it is like a throne. haha

Probably not having ten kids….

this is why.

The title is not in regards to the sign on this jug that says “needs blood,” however that is another good reason.

Hmm. At least they give you this thing to help collect.

Some randoms

We like to do family dinners on Sundays, a tradition that started with my family when we were all here. Sometimes we host, sometimes Daniel and Jessica host. Here are some pictures from those evenings.

Hanging out on Daniel and Jessica’s couch. We were playing some Kinect thing.

Here is Henry being so helpful and helping Matt do the dishes.

WhaaAA? This isn’t my third cookie….

Sometimes we go laser tagging. We have the Pass of All Passes so it would be foolish not to. Matt is a good sport even though he doesn’t enjoy it as much as the rest of us do. We were really excited to go this time. Can you tell? Jessica’s twin brothers came with us.

I know it is blurry, but check out the head on that body!

We have received a LOT of postcards recently. Thanks mom C. They are so nicely decorating our fridge!

Silly me…

That is my whoops face. I didn’t realize that Matt had already cut up some lettuce so I cute up my own.

Matt and I went to one of Chrissy’s games for water polo. They are in the top division.

Water Polo is very dangerous and rough.

Can anyone say leading scorer?

Big fans!

Overall, we have been doing some very fun things the last couple weeks.

Groupon

I was sneaky and asked Matt what he thought about a Groupon for Sammy’s when he was hungry and starving for burgers (This was during the time that I didn’t let him cook meat in the house because it made me sick). Needless to say, he agreed and we have been holding onto it for a long time.

We finally used it the other day inviting Randy and Jenny Buck from next door to come with us.

Henry loves to take pictures.

The burgers were good and the shakes were amazing. We got fries as well. Too bad it was like a million carbs for all that! I was good though and saved my shake for later on and drank it for the next couple of days.

St. Patty’s and Diabetic Brownies.

I told you that he poses. He looks cute and then at the last minute changes to more of a pained expression. Matt has probably been teaching him this naughty behavior.

Randy is fired. He wasn’t wearing green so I made him take the picture. He took like 5. Everyone one of them is blurry. Sigh

Matt wanted brownies so we decided to try a recipe with splenda. This one the maker was really excited about so we thought we would give it a try. How do they look?

Final judgment?

YUCK.

Chrissy said it tasted like the white part of hard-boiled egg.

Matt said they just tasted bland and eggy.

I took one bite and decided they were just gross.

Well, that’s one recipe we will never have to make again. Beware the diabetic splenda recipes!

Happy Birthday Jessica Hoffman!

 

These are some of the reasons that we love Jessica.

Not only does she make good food—she eats it too!

She loves the Super Bowl

She is not afraid to get in touch with her animal side.

She likes to eat free samples.

And she is not afraid to chew gum.

She looks nice even when no one else in the picture does

She loves warm donuts from Pikes Place

She sports awesome suits.

She makes great faces.

She tries to keep my husband in line for me.

She lets Daniel have some spotlight sometimes. (And points out funny signs)

She loves to Ice Skate.

She is really competitive and fun to play games with.

She has large muscles…(nurses need them!)

And she is an awesome sister and puts up with all the crazies (not speaking of myself of course )

Yeah, we have good times together! Happy Birthday sis! I hope it is wonderful for you!

PS (Obviously there are about a million other things I could say about her but this will just have to do!)

29 weeks!

We are so excited! I look huge in this picture. Don't be fooled :)