April's Happenings

Autumn is 19 months old.

 She loves water in all it's different forms - baths, pools, lakes, spray bottles, hoses, sinks, ice, and snow. She loves it all! She even likes getting sprayed in her face and in fact she loves it. Sometimes I let her play with the spray bottle herself and she ends up drenched.

  

She wanted to give her baby a bath...

and so she did. I wasn't going to let her. I put the doll up on the sink counter. I left for 2 seconds to grab a towel while the tub was filling and came back to find the doll in the tub. I didn't realize she could even reach that high. Oh well. It was really cute watching her wash her baby. She was very gentle and made sure she was clean from head to toe. 

She loves to tell stories and especially at dinner time. She was telling us an exciting and intense one this night. She would get very animated and loud and then she would whisper for little bit. We tried to get it recorded, but we were too slow. She's a silly one.

When it's been warm enough we will go on bike rides down into town and go to the Post Office and the Park. She loves to play on the swings and go down the slides. 

Time for a cat nap. 

Autumn wouldn't go down for a nap at her normal time,

but eventually she conked out and her kitty did too.

She really loves it when her friends come over to play. They all have a lot of fun together.

This video is of her reading in her closet with one of her friends.
He's reading a cookie monster book in the background. :)

Autumn has all her stuffed animals and books in her closest. Almost once a day I find her in their reading books to her animals. It's the best! 

We got to take a ride into one of our neighbors fields to see the cows and their babies. We just rode out in the middle of a herd of them and sat and watched for awhile. The Momma cow's didn't seem too fond of us, but the calves seemed intrigued. Autumn loves to moo when she sees cows so it was really cool to be so up close and to hear them moo. 

This month we also got to meet a new member of our family. We got another nephew and Autumn got another younger cousin. We met baby Owen when he was about 10 days old. I forgot how little they come. We forgot to bring our camera, but Autumn was really cute with him and held him for minute with help. He is such a cute little thing!

Easter Weekend

Laketown's Egg Hunt 

The Friday before Easter we got to go on a egg hunt at the town's park. It had snowed a bit, which made it a little more exciting! Each kid got to find 20 or so eggs and they got a bunny stuffed animal a the end. It's pretty awesome what you can do when you live in a small town.

They roped off 3 sections of the park's lawn for the different age groups.

That night we went to Rich High School's Prom. This was Autumn's 2nd Prom. 

We got dressed up in Sunday clothes and watched the Juniors preform a dance and dance with their parents. She thought it was pretty fun when she got her chance to dance around too. 

This is her in her Daddy's classroom. 

The next day we drove down to Bountiful to spend time with the Haw's extended family.
Autumn got to go on egg hunt in their beautiful yard (Great G&G Haws)
and afterwards we had a yummy lunch all together. 

Great Grandma Haws made Autumn a cute animal pillow case!

Easter Sunday

We went to Church with Grandma and Grandpa W. When we got home we took a few pictures of Autumn in her Easter dress. She was being silly and wouldn't sit still. :) 

Autumn had a great time at Grandma's house (and so did we). We drove home that afternoon and enjoyed another egg hunt at our house. 

Matt smoked us a delicious ham for dinner. It was so good! 

We had a wonderful Easter!
 I know that Easter isn't all the about the egg hunts, candy, and good food
although we did enjoy all of these things.

It's more importantly about our Savior Jesus Christ - for His life, for His Death, for his infinite Atonement. I don't understand all that He has done for me, but I understand enough. I know that He lives and that He loves me. I know that because of Him I can be forgiven and continue striving to be like Him. I know that because of Him I can be with my family forever. 

Happy EASTER