April Visit

Life has been a little crazy lately, so once again I'm a little slow to blog.

The weekend of April 18th was probably one of the busiest I've had in a while. On Saturday morning, I hosted a bridal shower for a good friend and former roommate. Then that afternoon, my sister Jill came to visit from Arizona with her two kids and good friend Susan. Nate was helping another one of my sisters move that day. Later that night my two sisters Megan and Jessica and brother-in-law Matt arrived to also stay the night. Bridget had a great time playing with her cousins, and sadly, we didn't take many pictures.

On Sunday morning, we attended church with Nate's extended family to hear his cousin speak about his mission to Chile. After we got home, I had to leave again to go to our church to fulfil my responsibilities there and then rush home to get ready for the dinner I was hosting for my extended family that night.

Needless to say, we were pretty exhausted after the weekend, but it was also fun to have a house full of guests. Hopefully it won't be too long before we see them again.

Easter

Easter Sunday this year was definitely more fun for us now that Bridget can participate a little more in some of the activities. After church, we headed over to Nate's Aunt Linda's house for dinner and an Easter egg hunt. Bridget was a lot slower than the older kids at getting the eggs, but she didn't care and neither did we since we don't let her eat candy anyway. Luckily, she did acquire a few things she could eat and Nate and I get to enjoy the rest. She seemed to enjoy playing with the plastic eggs more than anything, and emptying and refilling her basket kept her very entertained. At one point, she was carrying around a small chocolate egg in her warm little hand, and when she squished it the chocolate gushed out of the wrapper onto her hand. It's a good thing she doesn't like her hands to be messy, so Nate was able to wisk her into the kitchen and get her cleaned up before she made a big mess or ate any of it. The Easter Bunny was also kind enough to only bring her crayons and Elmo bubbles instead of candy.

And in all of the time I have for my own hobbies (yeah right), I did manage to make the dress she is wearing.

Aquarium Adventure

Okay, so the title of this post is a little misleading which I'll explain in a second. On Saturday, we decided to go on a family outing with thought Bridget would enjoy so we headed to The Living Planet Aquarium. Until recently, I didn't even know there was an aquarium in Utah, and that should have been a clue right there as to how it would be. Nate's coworker had warned us that it wasn't amazing, but we decided to give it a try anyway.

My sister, Megan, joined us, and I'm sad to say that we went through the entire thing in about 30-45 minutes. Most of the windows were tiny so you had to wait for the person in front of you to move so you could see what was in it. The touch pool didn't have much in it, and even the shark tank was pretty lame. On a positive note, the jelly fish were pretty cool and there was a big aquarium that had some little crocodiles and good sized turtles in it. Even though I had my camera, the lighting was so dim that it wasn't even worth trying to get any pictures of anything hence the lack of pictures in this post.

At least we tried something new, hung out with Megan, and went lunch at Kneaders so the day wasn't a total bust.

Latest Obsessions

It never ceases to amaze me that toddlers can be fascinated by the simplest of things. Recently, Bridget has become absolutely obsessed with clocks. It doesn't matter where we are, if it's big or small, or if it's digital or a face clock - if there's a clock in the room she'll find it and tell you until you acknowledge what she's saying. Yesterday we went to a couple of home decor stores, and she had to point out and say "ca" for each of the hundreds we saw. And she made me acknowledge every single one. Her other recent obsession is light switches. About a month or so ago she learned to turn them on and off and has loved to point them out everywhere since then. She can't say anything close to light or switch, so she just has to point and make some other noise to get attention. In fact, every time we get out of car when we get home, she has to point out both light switches in the garage before coming inside.