Picture IM-Perfect

The photo shoot started with Trevor in a hot pink chair. I should have known then.

It was one of those spontaneously cute moments anyway, so I pulled out the camera.

I had to take them in black in white, on account of the chair being pink and all.

I tried to get a good picture of all three kids together, and never did.

I couldn't help but laugh as I tried to get everyone to look at me, and they couldn't help but laugh at me trying all my tricks to get smiles out of them! Hind sight, I love them better this way! It actually shows how life is at our house at this point in our lives.

This describes our "adjusting to three kids" phase of life better than any picturesque facade could. Every day is an adventure, and disequilibrium is the perfect word to describe our situation.

Although it is often a happy, hazy kind of tottering we are doing, it's quite off balance.

Trevor's smiles and chubby legs make it all worth it though!

There is always hope!

I know we'll find our feet again, so for now we'll just laugh as we totter around looking for the solid ground with four little feet following us wherever we go.

Two Month Trevor

TREVOR'S NUMBER ONE!

Trevor has become quite the smiley little chunk!

He has a newly found contentment called, "fat and happy".

We are enjoying him immensely!

Our Simple Easter

We had a simple Easter this year. We colored eggs as a family Friday night, went to Midwestern University (Rob's school) for a big Easter Egg Hunt on Saturday, and had friends to dinner on Easter Sunday. It's fun to have the kids really getting creative with the egg coloring. They really enjoyed it this year. They had some big bounce houses at Midwestern, the Easter Bunny, etc. Of course, the kids loved it!

We had an egg hunt in our back yard on Monday when we remembered there were colored eggs in our fridge, and a few more inside when they decided it was so fun they had to hide them for each other to find. I thought the eggs would go bad outside since it was so hot, but we ended up finding one in the toy room a few days later, fortunately we don't have a rat named Templeton to give our rotten egg to. Yes, I'm a mom. I quote from Charlotte's Web and Disney.

Lolly mom got to teach Primary music on Sunday to over 120 kids, and loved that. I passed around eggs while they sang, and whoever was holding it when the song ended it opened it and answered the question. It ended up that we had Mary, some disciples, and some Nephites dressed up at the front at the end as we talked about the testimony of those who have seen Jesus since he was Resurrected. We had many opportunities to talk about the true meaning of Easter with our kids, and loved it. We still don't know what "our traditions" are since it crept up on us this year with baby Trevor so new. It's a work in progress I guess. We loved having our friends the DeMill's to dinner, and they are close enough to family to make it feel just right.

Trevor looked mighty handsome on Sunday in his "dapper dan" (as Grandma Jan would say) outfit. After being as "reverent" as possible through church, the kids weren't in the mood for picture taking. So we settled with our Dapper Trevor for his "first Easter." He let us know by all his smiles that he loves Easter time!

We are grateful this time of year for our Savior and especially for the HOPE that the season represents.