oh yes. he did.

My beloved got this for me for my birthday.

Ahem.

I love me some Michael.

I really do.

I hesitated to go to the theater to see this along with all of the posers.

So I didn't.

I watched it for the first time with my family on my birthday.

It was awesome.

Michael is amazing.

I'm sad he's gone.

The end.

meet marvin

Easton showed me this thing and said,"This is Marvin." Well okay then. Marvin is the product of some very fun and creative aunts, Abbey and Cass. Easton has taught me different things about Marvin. These are a few things he has told me about him...

He can't say cheese when taking a picture.

He can't fold his arms while we say prayers. He doesn't have any.

But he is pretty good guy to have around.

And apparently he likes to take a nice ride in the scooby doo van every now and then.

And if I'm not mistaken, I think Easton might really like him.

You just never know what random thing is going to make this little boy just as happy as could be.

deja vu

Anyone who happened to see my bedroom in my old house would understand why I did a double take when I saw this picture. This is my exact bedframe and the wall color is (was)(?) almost precisely the same. (haha almost precisely... I think that might be an oxymoron) What the what?! So random.


I found it on this blog, which I love! She is so creative... I mean look what she did here! She built that mirror right onto the stock mirror! So ingenious! I must do that one day. I love pretty things...oh to have my own house one day. :)

little helper

Cass captured this little gem on her polaroid the other day while Easton was helping BoBo mow. He loves to help mow and will follow behind the big mower all around the yard. I just think there is something so charming about a polaroid, don't you?

Easter!

We had a lovely Easter this year. We started the festivities off on Saturday night by dying Easter eggs. Easton loved every minute of it.

He spent a lot of the time telling us that the Easter bunny was going to come hide these eggs. And that it would be SO FUNNY! (His words.)

The finished product.

Oh my goodness, this boy has my heart.

So, he wakes up Easter morning, and of course, I'm so excited I can hardly stand it. He came out to see the candy trail, which I was so excited to see his reaction to. He loved it last year. He loves candy you see. A lot. But he looks at it and says, "Well that's not fair. We're going to have to get out the vacuum." Hahaha...so funny and so random.

He quickly forgot his concern when he saw what the Easter bunny had left for him.

Oh my gosh. A baby bunny AND a big bunny? Unreal.

When it was time to look for the eggs, he said we had to be so careful and put them on his new pillow. So he had an old minky pillow that he would not give up that was getting a little nasty, so I thought I'd try to make a pillowcase out of that softy goodness for a new pillow. Oh my gosh I keep forgetting that material is a nightmare to work with. Sheesh. It all turned out okay in the end though.

We had a wonderful day watching conference and having a delicious dinner. And hooray! Our grass even grew! So springy.

And...I just thought this was funny. I converted a family picture to a coloring page for Easton to color while we watched conference. (It's pretty cool. You can do it on crayola.com.) Anyway...this is how he chose to color it. Hmmm... do you think this is his way of telling us we all need a little teeth whitening?

Hope you all had a wonderful Easter!

old timer

My lovely dearest cupcake doodle had a birthday. Again. I guess birthdays work like that. This year I managed to surprise him. It was a miracle. A couple of weeks before his birthday, I got his family to gather at a restaurant for dinner. He thought we were just going out, just he and I, but, SURPRISE! His whole fam was there. It was pretty fun planning it and actually executing the plan without him catching on. I couldn't believe he didn't realize something was up when I was madly texting his sister, Chantel, because I was lost and couldn't find the restaurant.

Randon: Why don't we just go to Chili's? You love Chili's.

Me: Um...well...nah. Ew. Sick. Chili's. No. Lets find somewhere else.

Randon: Well how about Cafe Rio?

Me: Nah...lets try something new. Like isn't there a restaurant...kinda like a bbq place somewhere around here?

Randon: I don't know. Who are you texting so much? Aren't we supposed to be on a date?

Me: Texting? Who is texting? I'm not texting. Um... really I swear there is a place called like... I don't know... Texas Roadhouse or something?

Randon: Yeah, that's a place but I don't know if there is one around here. Hey you want something new, let's just try this Thai food place.

Me: Noooooooooooooooooo!

Randon: Wo. Wo. Okay. Fine. Well, I think we've seen all of our options. So...lets just turn around.

Me: Yes! Turn around! And go left! Ah! SEE!? There it is!!! I knew there was one around here!

....and so on. And he still never got it. It was pretty fun. And his sister Shana was gracious enough to invite everyone over after for cake and ice cream. Don't worry though, I was a slacker and forgot my camera, so I don't have pictures.

On his actual birthday we had a pretty low key celebration at home. We had dinner and eclair cake and watched the awesome Sherlock Holmes.

The birthday boy

Easton wanted to be in on the action. And there is that trademark "smile" of his.

So exciting...

(he was pretty bummed when he was informed that the presents were not for him.)

The disappointment was gone when he discovered the candy for the movie and decided to be in charge of standing by it. And eating it of course!

Happy Birthday, Randon! We love you!

***Edited for Niesha's comment...this was so funny I can't believe I forgot!

"You forgot the part when he got on the saddle and the waiter announced that this is "Randy and he wishes he was 21!!" Classic!"

Hahahahahaha! Thanks for reminding me Niesh!! Ahhhh...who doesn't want to ride a saddle at their birthday dinner?