Easter at Grandma's

The Saturday before Easter we took the kids to visit Ammon's Grandma.  I love this woman.  She is so sweet to my family and loves my boys so much.  We got to spend the entire day at her house and it was so nice to catch up.

She gave Noah and Griffin Easter buckets with a stuffed animal and a snow globe.  Noah loves this purple rabbit.  When I asked him what its name was he looked at me for a long time and came up with, "Purple Rabbit Piatt".  Original.  :)

She planned a little Easter egg hunt for Noah which he loved.  He still tells me that he wants to "find the eggs".

After he found all the eggs, he went inside to check out his loot.  He wasn't sure about the $.... He wanted "shakers" because they have candy.  Maybe in the future he'll prefer money to candy.  Maybe not.

Then it was back outside to teach Grandma how to play soccer.

He really is getting to be quite skilled...  I need to post a recent soccer video.

Griffin and Grandma.  Silly boy.

Can't you just see the love oozing out of this picture?!

Noah had a great time with Grandma...

He loves her a lot.

He found a wind chime!  He has had a slight obsession with them since he was born...

It was a fun day.  Grandma even taught me how to make homemade Chicken 'n Dumplings and Buttermilk Biscuits.  Yummy!  I'm slowly becoming a southerner.  :)  Thanks Grandma, we had a wonderful time.  We'll come visit again soon!

Last night...

Ammon and I got the kids to bed and then we snuggled up in our bed to watch the movie, Bedtime Stories.  We heard Noah get up, which he does sometimes, but then things got quiet so we figured that he had gone back to bed.  When the movie was over, I asked Ammon to check on Noah to see if he was in his bed.  Noah has a pretty decent gap between the bottom of his door and the floor.  Ammon looked, and this is what he saw...

He knows that he's not supposed to come out of his room once we put him down...  This was as close as he could get.

The joys of being productive

I've mentioned it before... we have made a goal to attend the temple at least once a month this year.  Saturday was the day we scheduled for April.  

Will and Ginger met us there and watched the boys while Ammon and I did a session.  It was wonderful to be in the temple with my husband.

The flowers at the temple were beautiful!  They weren't there when we went last month.  

We gave Pap and Gigi our camera while we were in the temple and it looks like they had a lot of fun!

Apparently there is a train in downtown Apex.  Noah LOVES trains.  He always has.  I can only imagine how happy he was to board this one!

Gigi said that Noah would stick his head into these flowers and say, "I'm hiding" even though his backside was completely visible to the world.  Haha.

Griffin and his Pap.

After the temple, we went out to lunch and then headed up to the farm to do some work on the garden.  I am so grateful that we were able to help out and we look forward to helping out much more this season.  Ammon loves and respects his mom so much.  And I love that about him.

Noah didn't want to ride the tractor.  Playing in the dirt was too much fun!

Noah helped Daddy plant the potatoes.  By the end of it all, we had 32 - 50ft rows.  Plus the orchard and another smaller garden plot that holds the berries!  I can't wait for harvest!!  (3 generations in this picture!)

I'm grateful for this day.  A day that we could spend time doing work in the temple and work in the garden.  I'm grateful that my boys have had and will continue to have these experiences as they grow up.

Thank you Nana & Poppy!

The boys opened their Easter package from Nana and Poppy on Sunday.  As soon as Noah opened the box, he yelled, "Oh goodness!!"

Griffin-man caught a glimpse when Noah wasn't looking.

Noah saw the chocolate Easter bunny  :)

They each got an Easter book.  

Griffin posing for the camera.  He's so kissable!

Noah showing off his chicken-shaped Play-doh holder.

Easter Morning

Noah has LOVED Easter this year.  We talked about Jesus and the real reason we celebrate but for now, Easter egg hunts are his favorite part.  He was able to participate in 4 hunts this year(more blog posts to come)  and asks me every single day if we can "go find eggs in the grass".  He likes the "shakers" because he knows they have candy in them.  If they don't make a noise when he shakes them, forget it.  He won't even bother opening them.  The boys got buckets and shovels to use as their baskets this year.  The Easter bunny must have known that we're going to the beach for the 4th of July weekend.  :)  

Griffin got a whole bucket full of foam letters and numbers.

Noah got a fun play-doh picnic set and a bag of musical instruments.

After they looked at their things, I went upstairs to finish getting ready for church.  I could hear them having a good time but I had no idea things were like this!

Plotting...

Noah loves to play with Griffin.

Poor Griffin!

A hug.

And a kiss to make it all better.

Happy Easter!

My smallest friend

Griffin will be back to looking like this soon.  Currently, he has dark circles around his eyes, his nose is drippy and he's not happy sitting by himself.  He wants his mom.  I guess all kids do when they don't feel good.  'Til then, I'll look at these pictures and remind myself that this time flies by and I should not get frustrated about this disaster that we call home.  Housework tends to suffer when I have a baby attached to me.  What a little sweetheart.  A little sweetheart who tonight, went to sleep at 6:40 pm.  It'll be an EARLY morning, fo sho.