Happy Easter!

Easter Morning

Easter Egg Hunt

Kensley got sidetracked a little in the middle of the hunt and took a ride in the swing.

Coloring Easter Eggs

Kensley had fun coloring the Easter eggs, but quickly became frustrated because she couldn't understand why we weren't eating the eggs and kept putting them in her mouth after taking them out of the dye. Yuck! Nothing like licking colored vinegar off an egg!

Poor Baby

Kensley loves having her daddy home, but doesn't like to let him take care of her instead of me. Whenever he tries to do something for her she says, "No Daddy! I want Mommy!" and she is very adamant about it. I have been trying to leave for a little bit every day so that she can get used to being with him and know that I will always come back because in less than two weeks I am leaving them alone together for four days! Everytime she realized I am gone, she becomes hysterical and then sobs until I come home again. I had a Primary meeting tonight at 7PM and left her with Stephen. I got home a couple hours later to a quiet house and no Kensley. I was shocked thinking Stephen actually put her to bed without me, but this wasn't the case. When I left for the meeting, I put her on the couch with her blankie and a couple stuffed animals and she watching "Go Diego Go!" and she was, of course, crying. Stephen said that a little while after I left she stopped crying, but was still doing the hiccuping thing and then said "I am going to bed" and she took her blanket and bear and got in her bed. Stephen followed her up to her bed and she said to him "shut the door" and then said to him "you, downstairs!". :o( I feel so bad for her putting her own self to bed while she was still so sad. He checked on her 15 minutes later and she was already sound asleep. Poor little thing.

Road Trip

Last week me and Kensley drove to Bullhead City to spend time with my sister-in-law, Caroline's family and attend the blessing of her new baby, Stacie. This is a picture of Kensley with her 8 Beals cousins together at one time.
One day Caroline braided Kensley's hair and I had to get some pictures because it was her very first braid and so cute. :o) I took a picture from every angle.

Long and Productive Day

It all started when my sister, Bobbi, and her husband and daughter arrived at my house last night sometime after midnight last night. We stayed up until after 2 am talking and visiting, finally went to bed and stayed awake until after 3 am. I rolled out of bed sometime after 9am when Kensley woke up and lounged around until everyone else woke up and then made a 10-grain pancake breakfast from my food storage. :o) We finally got ourselves cleaned up for the day and headed out for a major coupon frenzy at Fry's with Bobbi and Jonnae in tow. I was very excited to have them help me so that I didn't have to make 12 trips by myself since they were having a 4 for $4 sale and only allowed one transaction. This isn't sissy stuff and would you just like to take a peak at our spoils??!!.....
You are looking at 10 boxes of Captain Crunch, 2 boxes of Cinnamon Life, 9 boxes of Quaker Oatmeal Squares Cereal, 1 box of granola bars, 14 boxes of Oatmeal to go Bars, and 8 boxes of oatmeal....I don't know the exact total because there are many receipts and too tired to scrounge them up and count it all up, but it was all for about $20 total. That is also including a gallon of milk not pictured. I can tell you that the first 12 items cost us a grand total of $3 and was a 94% savings! Yeah us! After the shopping spree, we headed back to my house for lunch and some regrouping. After lunch, which included my sister Lois and her family, Lois took all the kids to her house and me, Bobbi, and Aaron stayed behind to can my 150 lbs of dry milk and 25 lbs of carrots. I was so grateful to have their help because last time I canned I did it all by myself and seriously almost died.
As you can see, we weren't so good at getting the milk in the cans! I am so glad to have all of that done. My house is now covered in a film of dry milk and I have been sneezing all day, but it is done! When we finally finsihed, we headed to Lois's house for dinner and American Idol. I am finally home and Kensley is finally in bed and I am ready for bed!