Easter

Cooper was smiling and talking like crazy so I grabbed the camera and tried to capture it. I got one good picture of his smile and the video below is what I got. Typical that when you pull out the camera they stop doing whatever it was they were doing, but he's still a cutie!

Our ward Easter Egg Hunt and Barbecue was so much fun! The kids had a blast looking for candy and running around together and the food was so good! Gracie and Lindsey were in different age groups so Tim took the video camera and Gracie, and I took Lindsey and the camera. I only know how to download video from my camera, not my video camera, so that's why there's only video of Lindsey egg hunting below.

Gracie's watching a couple from our ward reading an Easter story with puppets. We've really loved our ward out here and have met some amazing people with such strong testimonies of the gospel.

Cooper leaned his little head on Lindsey's shoulder and fell asleep. It was so precious!!!

After lunch all the kids enjoyed chasing around the church yard. I guess ticks are pretty common around here so when we got home we looked the girls over and thankfully didn't find any.

The picture below reminds me of my brothers because of their hair color and age difference. Of course, the redheaded boy caught a frog, and all the girls were screaming and everyone wanted to see it.

The little redheaded girl in the next couple pictures isn't Lindsey but she is a cutie too!

The older kids were playing boys against girls and I spotted Lindsey on the "boys" side. She was surrounded by about a dozen boys but they all scattered by the time I got my camera ready for a picture and she was left on the hill with just a few. You can't really see but she has a stick in her hand and another boy tried to sword fight her with his. She didn't understand what was going on and said, "Nice" to the boy, so I quickly came to her rescue and carried her away from the "boys" hill.

Gracie and these girls said they were making a bed for the frog. So sweet!

I waited until the last minute to get Easter stuff so they only had dinosaur or sports egg dyeing kits. I went with the dinosaur kit and they actually turned out really cute! I'm glad we got them. The girls had a blast putting the stickers on them!

Poor little Lindsey was burning up when we got back from the Easter egg hunt. She'd been acting fine so I didn't notice until I put her down for her nap and she was on fire. When I took her temperature it was 103! I was so scared! It's been so hard to find a clinic around here that will take walk-ins and when I took her to one she'd been to before they said they had made a mistake and they weren't allowed to see children under 2. It was so frustrating so I took her back home and alternated tylenol and motrin. She got down to 100 but then spiked again the next night so I took her to the emergency room.

We figured she had an ear infection but they said she had too much wax buildup so they irrigated her ear and she was screaming and screaming and I cried myself because they kept on doing it and no wax was coming out. Finally one little tiny piece came out and they left her alone. There's no way that little piece was all that was blocking her ear but when the doctor checked her ear after that she said that she did have an ear infection. No wonder she was screaming when they were irrigating it! Poor thing! Luckily she seems to be doing better now.