.All of it, March

March was a great month. As usual, it brought us a fun St Patrick’s Day to take advantage of with chocolate and lies about leprechauns… Oh the many many lies that were told to these sweet innocent little people. At least they get to feel happy and excited about something magical happening? Plus (did I mention?) chocolate happened ↓↓↓

Air’s parents are selling their house and let us take the piano off their hands. I am so excited to have a piano, but every time I try to sit down to practice these two little piano players have the sudden urge to play the same keys that I am playing. Weirdest coincidence ever. ↓↓↓

  

Boy did Easter come early this year huh? We were still waiting for the last bit of snow to melt when it showed up in March?? Happily, it landed on the same weekend as Air’s Aunt Merlene and Uncle Dennis’s mission farewell. We were so excited to go for a weekend trip with the whole family up to the beautiful Cherry Grove to say goodbye! Easter in Cherry Grove has proven to be my most favorite thing ever!

Plus, we got to visit Air’s Aunt Tracey and Uncle Russ and have a little egg hunt in their yard on Saturday ↓↓↓

   

Ames loves Aunty Tracey so much (possibly related to all the gifts she’s given him?), so he was dying to see her house for the first time. Pretty sure this is the first dog he’s ever held… he was so funny, he didn’t know what to do with the poor dog so he just ran around in circles?! ↓↓↓

Mom, Jadey and I took the kids for a little walk while everyone else cooked dinner. Seriously, Cherry Grove is such a beautiful place. There is nothing like being out in the country.

We were all lucky enough to get to stay at the amazingly beautiful home of some family friends while they were gone to Arizona for the weekend. We are so grateful to them for letting us stay!

On Easter morning we were all pretty surprised (except for Grandma) when some little baskets showed up for the kids! ↓↓↓

 

Also, there was a lot to explore at this house all morning before church ↓↓↓

 

Alice in her Lovely new dress from Grandma ↓↓↓

 

After church, Air and I got to take some family photos for Dennis and Merlene, then we all went to their Apartment rec room and partied with all the cousins and Aunts and Uncles and friends and people we love, and we ate and ate and ate… This was seriously one of the best Easters that I have ever known.

Alice had such an exciting weekend she actually fell asleep on me in the middle of the party… This only made my day even better!

We ended up staying in Cherry Grove for an extra night when we had planned to go home on Sunday… Crazy thing was that Ames suddenly came down with some crazy illness while he was sleeping on the floor beside Grandma’s bed that night, and ended up needing to throw up every hour or so through the entire night and the next morning! This has never happened to him before! The biggest miracle ever is that he didn’t get a drop of throw up on the immaculate white carpet that he was sleeping on that night. Mom and I were able to keep it all contained and Ames learned pretty quickly to run to the toilet every time it started. PHEW!

But we made it home on Monday morning and our lucky children found another basket left for them from that sneaky Easter Bunny! ↓↓↓

↓↓↓ The next day Alice got sick with fevers, poor little lady, but I was so glad she didn’t throw up like Ames did//I find photos like this by the hundreds on my phone from the little games that Ames plays. He’s so proud of them so it’s really hard to delete any ↓↓↓

 

↓↓↓ Air took this photo of Ames right after he looked at me and said “Mom why am I wearing pants? Are we going somewhere?” haha//This trampoline park (launchpad) is the best place we’ve discovered in our city for our kids! They can just jump and jump to their heart's content ↓↓↓

 

↓↓↓ Another night with Daddy while I was gone to Young Women’s//Alice in her favorite little hiding spot ↓↓↓

 

Videoooooos:

Another trip to Launchpad with the family. We put these blocks together and made a fun bouncy train, then tons of other kids started coming over and wanting in on the fun. It got a little out of hand so we had to stop ↓↓↓

To a three year old the best jokes make no sense and they all have identical punchlines... POPCORN!! ↓↓↓

Another visit to our favorite indoor playground while it was too cold outside for parks. Sometimes does your baby just seem to whine non-stop for days and days? I think I'll go crazy listening to this sometimes... She's lucky I love her so much ↓↓↓

.All of it, February

February was a big month this year, so it gets it’s own post. I’ll start out with Valentines Day... We had a really good one. I wanted to duplicate our photo shoot from last year.. I can't believe how much these two have changed in one year. ↓↓↓

   

Air made some amazing huge pink rolls ↓↓↓

 

We had too much fun making valentines ↓↓↓

Air’s valentine for me was soooo overly romantic right?

 

↓↓↓Valentines from my Momma in Utah!//Valentines for Ames’s primary teachers ↓↓↓

 

We went to dinner with the family at Red Robin. I love seeing these cute little cousins together ↓↓↓

And Air made a delicious purple velvet cake to top of a wonderful day ↓↓↓

↓↓↓These kids get to have daddy night once a week while I go to Young Women’s activities. I never hear them complain about that//Our first walk to the park after a cold winter. It was so heavenly to enjoy being outdoors again! ↓↓↓

 

↓↓↓Sometimes you just get too tired to stand so dad makes you a little resting place in the corner of the kitchen//Air took a pic of himself waking up in the morning and used #allthefilters↓↓↓

 

We had a new indoor playground open up close to our house and we couldn’t wait to go. We went with some ladies and kids from our ward, and this cute little girl loooved baby Alice and wanted to carry her around everywhere… Gosh, it made me so nervous! Babies really shouldn’t be able to hold babies ahh! haha ↓↓↓

 

We did an engagement photo shoot for Air’s cousin’s daughter and did our usual location scouting trip as a family ↓↓↓

At Hawrelak Park we found this cool little warming hut and hung out in there for a while ↓↓↓

 

Then some dude came and started taking pictures of us from outside… haha! We thought it was a little strange then he came into the hut and introduced himself as a photographer for the Edmonton Journal and asked if we minded him posting our photo and putting our names on it. The next day this photo showed up on the Edmonton Journal’s feed. So cool! ↓↓↓

↓↓↓One more of many “bread-scapades” that Air has gone on this year. We are very lucky to have a daddy like him around here//A random photo Air took of me with my babies—capturing Alice’s goofy alter-ego we like to call “bucket head” ↓↓↓

 

One night Air and I decided that we would go on a mini vacation to the mountains in Canmore for my birthday, and we left the next morning. It was so awesome to do something sporadic for once, and we were so lucky to get free hotel rooms with points we’ve been saving up. It had been such a looong time since we had gone anywhere because of Air’s illness. He gets sick riding in cars or walking or anything really, but he was so awesome to go on this trip with us and endure! There was a lot of driving involved ↓↓↓

When I became a citizen recently I got a free 1 year pass to certain museums and things around the country… The one I was most excited about was the science museum in Calgary, but it’s three hours away from us! So of course we stopped there on our way to Canmore and Air slept in the car while the kids and I played and played for hours. This made our trip so over the top awesome! ↓↓↓

 

We arrived at our hotel room late at night and put the kids right to sleep, the next morning I opened up the curtains and saw the most glorious view of the mountains I’ve seen in forever. OH how I miss living near the mountains! ↓↓↓

I knew that this was going to be my best birthday ever. We started the day off right with the best hotel breakfast I’ve had ↓↓↓

Then we did some swimming in the hotel pool ↓↓↓

Both our kids got brave and went down the big slide… and immediately regretted it. ↓↓↓

 

We drove over to Canmore’s main street and had so much fun checking out some of the little shops there… poor Air was hurting pretty bad by this time so we didn’t last too long doing this activity ↓↓↓

And then we started driving again. Toward Banff and Lake Louise. I snapped this photo from the car… I thought these mountains looked like a stegosaurus’s scales ↓↓↓

  

We made it all the way to beautiful Lake Louise for just a short visit before we had to head back to Canmore for dinner ↓↓↓

(Side note *I’m just adding this for my own memory* Air was not doing well that night in our hotel room. He had a crazy fever spike and was talking crazy, but luckily the hotel was next door to a grocery store so I took Alice and walked over there late at night to pick up some medicine for him and some groceries for us. Fun times!)

The next morning we were scheduled for departure… but not before we ran back to the hotel pool for some more fun ↓↓↓

Ames was getting more and more comfortable in the water which is great for such a scaredy kid ↓↓↓

Our kiddos were pooped too ↓↓↓

 

And as we drove through Calgary I begged Air to drop us off at the Science museum one more time. He agreed to sleep in the car while we went and played for hours again… for FREE!

These two were so cute dancing on the stage ↓↓↓

The next day I got an official birthday party with the family and cake and gifts from both sets of parents. LUCKY ME, RIGHT!?