As if I needed another reason to love the Hungry monster... He plays the trumpet!!!

Easter Weekend

We started out our Easter weekend by going to the Langstraat's house on Friday night to dye easter eggs. Nick and I had a great time coloring eggs and I was proud of my husband for joining in and participating in another one of the silly holiday traditions that I love....


Friday, during the day, I got the opportunity to hang with Erin and Brianna while Erin made Nick's Easter present. For those of you who don't know Nick LOVES the weight watcher's hungry monster mascot. He is even the wallpaper on our laptop. After looking all over the internet and realizing that you couldn't buy him I asked Erin if she could make one. She said yes, she's so fantastic! Below is a picture of him in case you aren't familiar with the commercials.

On Sunday morning Nick and I gave each other our Easter baskets. Nick was so excited and surprised that the hungry monster was so large. Nick got me Meet the Robinson's...it's my favorite movie. After we went through our Easter baskets we watched my new movie while Nick hung out with Hungry. I think that Erin did a really great job and I got to tell you that Hungry has already made himself at home...

Our Easter baskets and Hungry taking control of the remote...

After church we went down to the Esslinger's house for an egg hunt and dinner. The kids had a great time hunting for eggs and dinner was great. Unfortunately, we didn't stay long enough to try out Megan's chocolate pie so I'm going to have to try and convince her to make it again so that we can try it out.

Mr. and Mrs. Bubba

Yesterday Bubba and Megan made it official and got married! The day had perfect weather and there were so many people there to support them. The reception site was beautiful, the food was excellent and I think that the bride and groom were really happy and the guests had a great time. The best part of the night for me was the dancing at the end of the night. My niece and nephew were dancing machines last night! I was amazed that they kept going up until the very end of the night.

Unfortunately, Tracy and Chad had planned a cruise and couldn't be there, but Charlie was there to represent for them. Nick and I had the opportunity to hang with Charlie since everyone else was working hard to make the night so great. Charlie just loved Nick. Those boys had a great time and Charlie even got Nick on to the dance floor once or twice, which if you know my husband...that is quite a challenge.

I hope you enjoy the few pictures I have and the super cute video of Jill and Charlie dancing the night away.

Busath Wedding

I wish that you could see their cute faces, but I was afraid that if they knew I was filming them they wouldn't have showed off their best moves...

Ace of Cake

Yesterday for our young women's activity we had a chance to learn about cake decorating. I was so excited because I always thought that it would be fun to decorate a cake for real and not just slap on some frosting and sprinkles. Also, let's be honest... I like anything sweet and we each got our own individual cake that we got to take home with us. I may have been more excited then my girls. The activity turned out to be a lot of fun and I think the girls enjoyed themselves too. Plus now I can make Megan and Bubba's wedding cake if they need a backup...

I was a little nervous at this stage of my cake because I didn't know how we were going to be able to make it pretty....

After smoothing the frosting with a magic paper towel...

The top of my finished cake!

It's a little bit loppy, but I'm really proud of it.

Me and one of my girls showing off our cakes.

P.S. In case you were wondering the edible flowers and leaves were alreay prepared for us...but I did all the smoothing and piping myself!

Happy St. Patrick's Day!

Today was pajama day at work, as well as St. Patrick's Day so all the kids were a little bit excited. Some of the teachers even put little green footprints around their classrooms to make the kids think that lephercauns came last night. I was a little bit concerned on Friday because I didn't have any green pajamas and so one of my little girls suggested that I buy some Tinkerbell pajamas because she has green...hence my shirt in the following pictures. It was so fun seeing all of my kids in their pjs and they were SO excited that they got to nap in them. Nick and I ended our St. Patrick's Day eating corned beef and cabbage at my parent's house. I hope that everyone else had a great holiday as well.

Miss Jenny and me in our PJs...you can't tell in this picture but Miss Jenny's pants are AMAZING!

Samsonite and me...I LOVE the footy pjs...

Too much fun at work.

It all started with pancakes...

We didn't really do anything special for our anniversary mostly because it was Sunday and we had church and lessons to finish preparing for, but it was perfect. I made the most delicious heart shaped chocolate chip pancakes for breakfast and then we did our regular Sunday activities. Nick gave me my presents early because you can't really hide a dozen roses and one fantastic gerber daisy (my absolute favorite flower). He also got me two new books for my child's book collection. I got Nick the best Wii game EVER... Mario Kart! He pretty much played it all afternoon, which makes me happy because I have no doubt that I got him the right thing. All in all it was just a really relaxing and fun anniversary. Oh, and don't watch Defending Your Life it's not as good as Nick remembers it.

my chocolate chip pancakes

My presents! (If you are wondering about the book titles, read the books, laugh your head off and then thank me later...Mo Willems is incredible...)

Nick's Present (Of course you'll notice that he's in 1st place...)

This is Nick this evening...playing Mario Kart...

One Down...

In honor of our first anniversary today I thought I would post some pictures of our wedding day. I can't believe that it's already been a year! We've definitely had an intersting first year of marriage but it's been amazing and I wouldn't change a thing...expect for maybe our first apartment. I'm so grateful for Nick and how hard he works for us and I'm proud of all of the things that he's accomplished this year. I'm excited to see what the years ahead hold for us.

(Nick's favorite picture)

(One of my top five favorites...)