Wednesday, April 14, 2010

Easter

The Dockstader boys are early birds and Easter morning Carter was the first to wake up. I was hoping to let him play in the living room and I could catch a couple more winks on the couch.

No such luck. As soon as he saw the gift the Easter Bunny left he was very excited.

Abby with her "Barbie in a Mermaid Tale" doll
Carter with Harold the helicopter
Grant with his chatter telephone
After morning conference my family came over as well as Samantha's in-laws. We had a really yummy brunch. (I wish I had a picture of the food it was so good.)

Then the kids had an Easter egg hunt.

Cousin Jacob show off all of the eggs he found.

Savino playing catch.


This is as much of a smile you can get out of Eli

Most of the grandkids (Grant was napping)

Dying Eggs

Update on the family

Our family is doing great. We are happy, healthy and keeping busy.

Abby is still doing good in school. She is now a member of the ABC Club. Over spring break she was complaining that she missed school. I am hoping her love of school will last.

Abby was blessed with her mothers coordination (or lack thereof) but has been doing better at riding her bike. On nice days I take Abby and Carter out to ride their bikes and they love it.

Carter is also doing well. Apparently I am a total flake because it took me two years figure out Carter is allergic to apple juice. It is weird, he can eat apples and he is fine but apple juice is a no go.

Grant is growing so fast! He loves to eat and will eat just about anything we put in front of him. He is also a big boy. He mostly wears 2t clothes. Grant started army crawling at eight months and crawling a couple of weeks later at nine months. He pulls up on everything and walks around the furniture.

I now have two calling: Ward bulletin and Primary Secretary. I spend most of my time doing the "mom" thing but I have also kept busy working on projects around the house (painting, gardening, etc.) and when the stars align going to the gym.

Dean has been busy with his calling with the Young Men. He also has been working around the house. For some reason we have a lot of projects going on right now (kitchen revamp, new base boards through out most of the house and front yard landscaping)

Tuesday, April 13, 2010

Random Stuff

A couple of weeks ago we went to have family pictures taken at Woodward Park. After we let the kids feed the ducks. I took the opportunity to take a couple of pictures.
The boys have been taking baths together lately. Grant loves to watch Carter be wild.
Carter was helping me put switch plate covers back on after painting. He is surprisingly skilled with a screwdriver.
For some reason it is really hard to get a picture with all of the kids together. So far this is the only one I have of all three kids, all happy and looking at the camera.

Wednesday, April 7, 2010

Spring cleaning

When we moved into our house this closet became the catch-all for anything we didn't know where to put.

I have been bitten by the spring cleaning bug so I decided it was time to clean it out.

I am so happy with it now. I even have an empty shelf!