Happy late Easter to everyone. I hope everyone had a wonderful day and remember to keep the Savior in mind. Easter was good for our family. We decided to celebrate the whole candy, eggs, and bunny on Saturday so Sunday was just about the Savior. Saturday was a pretty nice day but still not summer, so we had Grandma and Grandpa Ashton come with us to a park and we did a picnic and a small Easter egg hunt with the kids. Ok, well Keegan just slept in Grandma's arms while Reighlyn found the eggs. Now you must all understand that the attention span of a one year old isn't very long, so I only hind about 5 or so eggs and they were all around one big tree at the park. Reighlyn knew there was candy in the eggs, so the first egg she found she tired eating all the candy inside before going to the next egg. By the second egg though she caught on and found it fun to get the eggs and put them in the basket. Since it was getting a little chilly we decided to wrap things up. We headed home. Now let me tell you it was very weird to come home and not have a huge list of things that had to be done. This might be new news to some I don't know, but we are moving! We have had our house up for sale about 2 weeks now. That's the reason we didn't have tons to do...I have been working my butt off the last couple of weeks going through and packing things up we don't use to make the home cleaner, staging the house, and deep cleaning. So on Saturday there was nothing to do really. We should have done some yard work probably, but it was nice to just relax. We did go get the car washed, but that was pretty much the only things we did that afternoon/evening.
Easter day was very relaxing for us. We had a little FHE in the morning and then went to church. We only went to sacrament meeting because we went to have a late lunch with Ana and Jonathan, along with Mike's parents. Its a good thing we only stayed at church for an hour because Mike was ready to kill Reighlyn. She didn't get a long enough nap, so she was cross. She was throwing crayons, fruit snacks, and pretty much anything else and when you took it away from her she would scream. That is the bad thing about 1 o'clock church with a child who usually takes a nap from 12-2. Luckily we have started sending her to nursery a little early, I know, but it makes church much better for everyone. So after the first hour of church it is usually easy sailing, except 2 weeks ago she started going through this mommy stage where I can't be 5 feet away from her without hearing, "mama, mama, mama" It was cute at first, but now its getting old. She won't even let dad give her a bath and put her to bed, so most nights I get to bath and put to bed both kids, not Mike's fault. But luckily both kids put themselves to sleep, so it really isn't that bad. And once there a sleep around 7:30 they sleep most of the night. Reighlyn sleeps until 6 or 7 in the morning, Keegan sleeps 6-8 hours gets up and eats and then goes back to bed....oh wonderful.
Reighlyn has decided that she loves to be outside. When we were cleaning out the garage Saturday morning, she was running around screaming like it was the funnest thing in the world. Needless to say when it was time to come in, she was not happy at all. It is just another reason why we are so excited that we are building our new house now. The new house should be done at the end of June/beginning of July, so still plenty of summer left for Reighlyn to play in our new fenced yard. Also the neighborhood we are building in has its own playground so that will be so nice to just walk there instead of packing them up in the car and driving to find a not so busy park somewhere. The playground in the neighborhood is only for those that live in the gated neighborhood, so that will be nice. The new house will also bring a new ward. We love the people of our ward, but they are not our age at all, so it will be nice to go to church and not have our kids be the only ones that make a noise. The neighborhood also has a 2 mile walkway they are putting in that goes along the river, so no more taking walks on a busy street.
So house stuff has been taking up a lot of time. With having to go in and pick out colors or paint, cupboards, carpet, flooring, etc. I never knew it was so time consuming to pick everything out,but when you have to go through and make sure every outlet is where you want it and that all the colors flow well...it takes a lot of time. But luckily we have finished all of that and they should start building in the next week or so. It will be exciting once it gets started and starts looking like a house. Mike and I will have to be out there a lot to make sure everything is going like it should and where it should. Really it will be more Mike than me since I have the kids. Ok, well we will update more later and I will try to get some pictures up also.