We love Holidays!

Okay, since I have been a slacker and haven't really posted much about our family since before Christmas, I am going to try and have a little catch up here. We have had a lot of fun holidays lately and it has been fun to celebrate them with the girls. They get excited over the simplest little activity that we have really enjoyed the holidays.

Here is just a little glimpse from Christmas since I didn't post one thing for it. Some of our funnest things we got to do were: making gingerbread houses, looking at lights, being with lots of different family (cousins, aunts, uncles, grandmas and grandpas), our ward activity (where we dressed up like biblical times and got to be in Bethlehem when Jesus was born) and of course decorating the tree and opening presents.







I am going to share a little of our Valentines day. We had yummy pink heart shaped pancakes for breakfast, and we had our little heart shaped sandwiches for lunch, and of course we had a fun candle lit dinner for four, including one of our favoritest foods....SHRIMP. Our family loves shrimp!


Then for St. Patricks day of course we wore green and then we had lots and lots of green food to celebrate. I didn't do the corned beef hash, that just doesn't sound appetizing to me, instead we just ate the foods we like that are green. Starting with breakfast we had green milk on our cereal. For lunch we had green juice and green grapes. And then we finished the day with a dinner fit for a leprechaun. We had green spinach tortillas that we used for burritos, which had green salad and avocado and cucumber on them. We also had lime green jell-o and more green juice, which was followed with green ice cream. Needless to say we won't be wanting to eat anything green for a while.


Then we had Easter and we enjoyed that too. We had our easter egg hunts on Saturday. First we woke up and found the little hidden treasures left by the Easter Bunny and then we loaded up and headed to the church for a Primary Easter egg hunt.



The girls had fun all day, they were just so excited to find all the little spots where the eggs were hiding. And then on Easter Sunday they wore some new dresses that I found. ADORABLE!! And Ashtyn even gave a talk in Primary about Easter. It was a great day for us to remember the Savior and all He has done for us.



Then on the 24th we celebrated Ashtyn's 5th birthday. We went to story time at the library and then went to lunch at dad's work where she got to open a present. We stopped at the park, by Dad's work, on the way home and the girls played for a little bit and then we headed home for some down time.
Then that night as soon as Dad got home Ashtyn opened the rest of her presents and we enjoyed her request for dinner which was hamburgers. Then we had a little party with her Grandmas and Grandpa and Uncles. (It was also her Uncle Brad's birthday so we did a little bit for him too). Then we all enjoyed Ashtyn's delicious Castle cake (also her request for this year) with ice cream. Even the ice cream was happy that it was Ashtyn's birthday(2nd pic, isn't that hilarious?). She has two of her favorite presents on in the third picture. A pink guitar and pink cowgirl boots. She has been the singing star at our house this past week and has almost worn her boots nonstop. It was a great day for her. And we just can't believe that we are already old enough to have a five year old. YIKES!!