Easter

Our Easter festivities started last Thursday, with a fun egg hunt with our ward playgroup.

"Here we go!"

Once Susie realized that there was candy inside of the plastic eggs, she was only interested in opening them and not in finding them. Egg Decorating

I have always enjoyed coloring eggs... but, it was especially fun and special to do it with Susie this year, because she was excited about it too!Thumb's up--Susie making sure her thumb is up.

Easter Sunday

Egg hunt in the front yard.

Susie, ever so gracefully, pointing to a found egg.

Opening the goods.

Too many goods in mouth at once.

Susie tried to eat a chocolate egg and a handful of jelly beans at the same time, after a couple attempts to chew, she spit the whole lot out.

Later, the Zumsteg's (an amazing couple in our ward) had us over for a wonderful Easter feast. We had a great Easter and hope you did as well!

Lighthouse

During Dave's lunch break the other day, we went out to Waukegan Harbor for a stroll in the sun. It was a beautiful day.

We walked out to a small lighthouse in the harbor. Susie jumped down from this ledge about fifty times, and luckily her Daddy was always there and willing to catch her.

Lennon was such a good sport for us. Although the sun was out, it was super windy... yet this little guy was just so content to hang out in the stroller with a blanket covering his view.
Dave with Susie on his sholders---running full speed.

If you look close at this goose you will notice it is standing on one leg. Dave and I thought it was so strange, but Susie approached it and it's other leg came down (from being tucked up against it's body). We thought it was a good gimmick for the bird to get more bread crumbs tossed at it, as people would feel bad for the one-footed bird.

Return of the Jedi

We started the first Star Wars movie a few months ago, and finished watching the last one recently. It was awesome.... Susie liked some of it too (especially Darth Vader-- at least the way he breathed).

My Best Compliment Ever

My friend did a "Best Compliment" contest on her blog... and I'm sure that I would have won if I would have posted this amazing compliment that I received by, none other than, Donny Osmond himself! To set the scene a little:
I was a freshman in High School, in (puppy) love with Donny Osmond (Tom Cruise just didn't do it for me), found out that he was doing a book signing in SLC. My sister, my best friend Sam, and I went to go meet my handsome crush. We waited in line for hours; I had way too many hormones racing through me and was as giddy as they come. When it was my turn to meet Donny face to face, I am embarrassed to say that I was almost hyperventilating with excitement (note how big my young smile is in picture above); knowing how dorky I was I said, "Sorry, Donny, I am such a Dork!" and he replied (or complimented), "You are not a Dork!"
Wooooweeeee!!! He might as well have kissed me right there!