Events

We have had so much going on lately and I have started feeling guilty for not blogging about it.  I feel enough mom guilt, I should not feel guilty about blogging! So I tried talking myself out of it and finally decided to just post so I can feel better. After Easter we drove to UT to visit my sisters, Julie's family and see all of Danny's friends.  We had a great time visiting and got to spend a lot of time with some of our favorite people. The highlight of the trip was taking Becca to her first sonogram appointment.  Some doctors think that my incompetent cervix could be genetic, so Becca was a little worried about it and had the sonogram at 16 weeks rather than a little later.  We didn't think they'd be able to determine the gender with any accuracy and  tried not to get our hopes up-but we were pleasantly surprised! She is having a little girl! We were all pretty shocked. It was so fun to see her little baby kicking and moving around.  I was lucky and got an ultrasound every two weeks with Lucy (well, if a high risk baby is considered "lucky") and could never really see anything. Just looked like an alien to me. The perspective i had watching Becca's baby was totally different-weird huh.  The nice technician pointed out the feet etc and I could totally see it!  Mmm, must have been my lame technician, he really was a jerk. Anwyay, it was really fun to be there for that exciting event. We immediately went out and bought the cutest pink outfit we could find. The only picture I have of that trip:

Becca decided to drive home with us and we had a fun time seeing her last week.  On the 16th we drove down to San Luis Obispo for the day for an open house at Cal Poly.  We got to walk around the city for awhile (and bought the LAST iPad in the apple store for Steve's birthday-victory!). It is an incredibly cute town. They have all the big retailers, but with this cute little downtown feel.  My favorite thing was this little stream running through town, in front of the mission. Restaurants have little patios over it and there is a nice walking path that winds around the stream.  Lucy had a riot jumping on the rocks with Danny. 

Danny went off to the open house and Lucy and I had special girl time. We ate cookies on the riverbank and threw pebbles into the stream. We had a great time.

I expected Danny to be gone awhile,
to be continued....

Easter and Revenge

I haven't been blogging much lately-but here I am blogging about Easter on Easter itself! On Tuesday we drive to Utah (the first of two UT trips this month), so I thought I should get the Easter pictures out there early. Easter relaly took me by surprise this year.  We put up our chickie and egg window decals a couple weeks ago in anticipation and then it snuck up on me.  The easter bunny was stuffing eggs (all eight of them) two minutes before our impromptu hunt this afternoon.  Last year Lucy dressed up in a beautiful easter dress with adorable pig tails and hunted for eggs. Since conference falls on Easter sunday this year Lucy drove to Grandma Karen's house with hair in her eyes in jammies and a Cinderella dress.  (I started out in a comfy skirt, changed to jeans and ended up in sweats and a hoodie. I love Conference Sunday.)  Instead of a hundred pictures like last year I have about five from Danny's phone. I just didn't get it together. Oh well. Lucy still had fun.
She ate her first "Peep"(and hopefully her last. I think those things are nasty!)

and was lucky enough to hunt for candy at both G-ma's houses. (She switched to Tinkerbell before the next hunt).

Now for Revenge. I just want to document this anecdote for posterity. Backstory: Several days ago Lucy got a time out for not doing what Danny said.  So, Danny and Lucy were playing catch and Lucy told Danny to put his shoes on. Danny told her that he didn't want to and wanted to play in his socks. Lucy put her hands on her hips and said, "Daddy, when you two and I'm Daddy I will give you a time out and put you in that chair." Later she added, "I will be mad at you for not putting you shoes on."  Ouch.