Easter Egg Hunt, April 9, 2011

Our whole family enjoyed a fun Easter egg hunt hosted by our friends John and Misha Young to celebrate their younger son's first birthday.  (Benjamin and their older son, Caleb, are good buddies.)  Several other friends from our ward attended as well.  The egg hunt took place in the community garden near the Youngs' home, and afterward we had a delicious lunch and birthday cake while the kids played.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

(Photo courtesy of Misha)

Visitors

A few weeks after Lucy was born we had Grandma Key come to visit (and I think it was raining the whole time so we didn't do anything picture-worthy).

And at the beginning of April Grandpa Duersch had some business in Vancouver, B.C., so he came down to stay for a night with us.

 Paul and Dad talking about back yard birds.

A New Back Door (and back to blogging)

The past four months have been my biggest blogging/journaling/family record-keeping failure ever, I think.  Whenever one of my friends goes months without blogging, I tend to think something is wrong.  In my case nothing was wrong other than being busy and having a hard time summoning up the energy to download/upload photos and write something meaningful and/or witty.  So now I'm trying to pick up where I left off.

Two days after Lucy was born this happened:

A closer look:

So the following Monday the whole family trooped over to Lowe's to buy a new door, and sometime after that Paul (with two little helpers) installed it.

We had been planning to put in French doors eventually, just not right at that time.  That's just how life goes sometimes, I guess.

July 12, 2011, Tuesday

Our nightstand at Paul's parents' house

Partial view of Paul's old bedroom, where we usually sleep when we visit

Reading while I nurse Lucy

Diaper change

Benjamin and Rhett playing games on Grandma's computer

Cousin Tom, Benjamin and Paul watching BYU media day while eating lunch (the balloons are from Grandpa's birthday the day before)

Rhett grabbing a snack of peanut butter pretzels

Benjamin playing toys

Cousin slumber party the night before we embark on our family reunion camping trip (clockwise from bottom: Abigail, Breton, Benjamin, Rhett, Liz, Karen, Paul, Brett)

My clothes (I think)

Toothbrushes by the sink

Sunday

(Why did I take a picture of this??)

Lunch

Whole-wheat mixed-berry muffins

My sewing machine died while I was making this dress for Lucy. :(

One of my favorite pictures ever (and one of my favorite Lucy outfits at the time)

Warm day

Benjamin showing off the "tomato structure"

...and the garden

Soaking that favorite outfit in OxyClean...

Coming home from an afternoon walk

Playing with GeoTrax