3 months!!

 Here is the Elly bug at 3 months...we haven't weighed her yet, but I'm sure it's bigger than last month considering the chub she's developed on her cheeks this month. She is a very happy baby!! She is always smiling and giggling and playing with the kids.  She likes her face covered in her blanket when she goes to sleep. She loves to snuggle...and this little girl knows how to burp! I am impressed with her abilities. She has discovered her hands and feet and love to play with them. She loves when I play with her feet and touch her toes to her face...it makes her giggle :-) She has got all of us wrapped around her little finger. She loves her mom time, dad time, and brother and sisters time. The kids love playing with her trying to get her to smile! She has lots of facial expressions...the newest one being sticking out her tongue as she chews on it...it's pretty funny. I love this little girl...she is growing way too fast for me!

Tummy time!

 Her scared face right before she cries.

 The tongue...excuse the middle finger.

 About to giggle!

 Smiley

 One of my favorite smiles that she does

 So cute!

 This one makes me laugh

 This is when she is babbling...she loves to talk!

 Playing with her sisters...yelling at them.

Loving dad time! I love this picture :-)

Easter 2012

Easter was fun this year...we had all the kids all weekend. We colored eggs on Saturday morning and just had a good time hanging out. On Sunday they got their easter baskets, we went to church, and enjoyed creamed eggs for lunch. We then went to Grandma and Grandpa Flores' house for some yummy easter dinner and a way fun easter egg hunt. The kids ended up with 19 eggs for each of them. It was a good time. We also stopped by Grandma and Grandpa Olsen's to chat with them. Over all it was a great Easter. I don't look forward to the days after when "trading" begins and contention rules because some ate their candy faster than others and begging and trading for candy occurs. Teaching moments came this  year due to this...about just being grateful for what you have...and just giving without expecting anything in return. That's just being a nice person. So new rules around holidays will be implemented in this house. We will see if that goes better for us. At least for my blood pressure anyway. 

 Coloring eggs!! They each had 10 eggs to color...that's a lot of eggs to eat!

 Easter baskets Sunday morning...I promise they enjoyed it...I hope. Can't tell with no smiles. 

 At least our Elly Bug is happy it's Easter!!

 She loved her basket :-)

 Watching the kids find easter eggs and the Flores home!

Froggy decided to join the fun...Elena is holding him. 

I love Easter...not because of the eggs, candy, and baskets...I am grateful for the Savior and for the His Atonement. I am grateful that He gave us the ability to overcome physical and spiritual death. I love that someday we will all be resurrected and be whole. I thought a lot about that this year. What it would be like for Jana to experience with a normal hip, for all the aches and pains to be gone from my parents, all the physical ailments that all my family experience to just be gone. It gives me joy knowing that it will happen someday.  That we will be with our loved ones again and we can repent and be able to be in the presence of our Father and the Savior brings me such peace. That to me is what Easter is about. If I haven't taught that to my children...then I have failed. I need to do better about teaching them to love these holidays because of what they really are about. That is my goal...