Chalk Art on Main Street

We love where we live! The city is always doing something fun! Summer is especially eventful. They do an annual chalk art festival on main street. Artists and amateurs all gather and for three days they create master pieces on the sidewalks all over main street. There is a "free" section where we saw a bunch of kids and families contributing so we decided to add our little flavor to the street! Levi loved it!

Everyone thought Levi was so cute. This one lady even stopped as asked if she could take his picture and that it might end up on a poster or something. I couldn't agree more... look at that face... he is a total ham!
He very much LOVED eating the chalk. I had a hard time getting him to leave it alone.

We laid Levi on the ground and traced him then colored him in. All of the small chalk marks in these pictures are Levi's contributions! Here he is trying to help daddy with his.This was mine... lame I know.

It was so much fun! I can't wait for next year. We didn't get much of a chance to see other people's real art so that was the only down side. It all got rained away before we could make it back down after everyone had finished.

Lots of fun part II

Here I am just a couple weeks ago. I am now almost 22 weeks along. We are having a girl! We have decided on naming her Alexandra and calling her Ally. Unless we change our mind before she is born that is what we are sticking with. She is active and kicks a lot, but is more gentle than Levi was. She doesn't flip around as much and kick as hard. I love talking to her and can't wait to see her!!! (I'll inclue a couple ultrasounds in the next post) Mother's Day was nice. I woke up to breakfast. The waffles were so delicious. They are my favorite kind with apples, cinnamon, and pecans. Rick is allergic to nuts so he NEVER puts nuts in anything, but he made me my own special waffles with nuts. I LOVE NUTS!! YUM! He also changed every diaper that day and did everything for me! It was sooo nice to just relax. I also got a new ring to wear on my wedding finger. Not to replace my old one, but a more casual one to wear everyday that I am not worried about getting wet or ruining, etc. Thanks Rick for a sweet Mother's Day.
Levi is so cute at bath time. I had to snap a picture of these two! My favorite two men in the world right now!

Levi played at my sister's house the other day and her kids taught him how to dig holes while they planted flowers. It was so cute and he loved it!!

Lots of fun

My cousin Cami and her husband, Derrick, are some of our closest friends. We love getting together often and just hanging out. Our two kids are two months apart and play really well together and Derrick and Rick are so much alike. They love playing guitar together and often sing some fun songs that we all can do a little jig to. I had to make sure I documented it here: Levi is in that stage where he gets obsessed with the funniest things. Like the BROOM! lol. He was so tired he wouldn't put it down. This is us trying to get him to let go and go to bed.
I took Levi out in the rain the other day to run around. He loved it and I thought he looked so cute!

We have a neighbor that is a bus mechanic and he drove by our apartments and gave a couple of us a ride in a bus he was working on. A brand new bus... never been ridden. It was so fun, but Levi was so tired he was really scared the whole time. Can you tell he had been crying?

I don't think Levi is quite ready for a slide that big all by himself. Look how scared he looks. lol

We had a birthday party at the zoo the other week. Levi loved looking at all the animals... he was so cute.

Another thing he gets obsessed with his is old johnny jump up. He drags it around the house and won't put it down.

He loves to do all these funny things now to get us to laugh... this is just one of them! His sippy cup balancing act! He can climb up on the couch by himself now and will randomly come sit by me and just lounge out and watch whatever I am watching. It is so cute!

He likes to sit on the counter when I cook so he is closer to me... well I turn around for one second and this is what I found.... "who stole the cookie from the cookie jar?"

Moab with the Thaynes

A couple weekends ago we went down to Moab to get away and get some sun. We invited Devin and Stephanie Thayne, our friends. It was a blast. We got down LATE LATE Thursday night and couldn't find a camping place that was open so we got a motel room. It was fun to have a sleepover and hang out. I was grateful for the shower in the morning too! We went into Arches and spent the day running around and hiking. It was so much fun. Here is delicate arch. So gorgeous. Rick had never been there before and he was skeptical, but when we actually got to it he was in awe and loved the surroundings.
It was cool to see the steps they carve in the rocks there to help hikers... I thought it would make a good picture.

Such beautiful landscapes!

I was pretty proud of myself for how much I climbed around and hiked while being pregnant. Although I saw a lady that was 8 months pregnant hiking a lot faster than me. I was so impressed!

Stephanie and I enjoyed flying in the wind! Rick and I got pretty tired and stopped for some water and grazing.

Rick can jump really high so I was daring him to jump over all these cairns along the way. Look how much clearance he got on that jump. I should have picked something bigger for him to jump over.

I gave it a shot too, but my jump is pretty pathetic.

The sign doesn't lie. We were hiking through straight sand for a while... that can get really tiring.

We had a lot of fun and enjoyed the company. We ate a milkshake and dinner in Moab and saw some of the town. We decided to leave late Friday night and come home and we hit a snow storm in Price and got stuck in the canyon coming into Spanish Fork for almost 4 hours! We all made it home safely though. Good times.

Easter

We started our Easter off with egg decorating with my cousin, Jessie, and her husband, Joe. We love spending time with them. I got a cheesy egg dying kit from Smith's and I think I was the only one SUPER excited to decorate. I don't know why more people don't enjoy it. We had a couple really cute ones, but our dye went all weird and a lot of our eggs turned out weird.

Levi even had fun participating, although all he really wanted was to put everything in his mouth. I wonder if he will ever grow out of that. Here are some of our finished eggs

Easter morning with finding our Easter baskets. Rick found his okay... after I gave him tons of "hot or cold" hints. Mint Oreos, Rootbeer, and mini chocolate eggs. I also got him a new kind of razor he has been wanting to try.

I found mine easy. Rick got me some treats and Tangled, the movie! YAY! I love that movie!

With a little help from daddy, Levi found his little basket.

He wouldn't put it down the rest of the morning. Twix and little Nutter Butter treats. Yum!We then had Easter dinner at Grandma and Grandpa Brunson's and they had a fun egg hunt for Levi. I wasn't sure how much he would even like it, but he did really good and was running from egg to egg carrying his bucket full of goodies.

He found them all!!

I want to make sure it is clear to my children in the future that Easter is fun when we have baskets and eggs and treats, but the real reason for celebrating is our Savior and His resurrection. He lives and made it possible for the Plan of Salvation to be fulfilled. We are now fully able to return to our Father in Heaven because of all that Jesus Christ did for us. I know he lives and knows each of us individually. Don't forget how amazing and awe inspiring the real reason of Easter is. THE RESURRECTION!