Easter Fun

Jason thinks it's so funny that I get more excited about holidays than Justin does still. I love dying Easter Eggs and we had lots of fun doing it while Justin was napping (I wasn't brave enough to deal with him trying to drink the dye or dying himself colors the day before church). So I just let him play with the stickers later. (: Jason discovered that if you rub butter in weird designs on your egg before you dye it, it creates a really cool tie-dye effect. I wish I would have thought to take a picture.
Anyways, Justin was pretty excited to wake up from his nap and realize he had a table full of bubbles, sidewalk chalk and CANDY! He quickly figured out that if you throw the plastic eggs on the ground jelly beans will pop out, and I quickly discovered 1 or 2 eggs would have been PLENTY of sugar!

We love the Dollar Tree!

Justin Especially Loved their Malted Milk eggs!

We did all our Easter fun on Saturday which happened to be the most beautiful day we've had since getting back to Rexburg. The sun was actually shining and the wind wasn't blowing too bad so we took the stroller to the park down the street and tried to soak up all the sun we could before the cold weather and snow returned. Rexburg has a lot of parks, and we were the only ones at this one, so Justin got to run free and wild. He really thought he was in Heaven.

We played on this thing for a good hour. Justin drew all over it with sidewalk chalk (that's not graffiting if it washed off in the rain is it?)  He's really gotten into this "I'm so big" attitude and decided to push the thing all by himself while Jason layed on it. One of the cutest things I've ever seen.

Justin's only really been on the little kid plastic slide's and was completely mesmerized by this very large, slightly dangerous looking slide. He climbed up the entire thing by himself (with his daddy standing behind him just in case.) I'm really not sure how I feel about our little boy getting so darn big!

Ready!

Set!

Go!

This is what I call enjoying the park!!! I forgot how much I absolutely adore sunshine! I could have laid there all day. (Well at least until the cold/windy rain came about an hour later)

Creations

April Fools Day Dinner

Let me start out by saying that April Fools Day is typically one of my LEAST favorite holidays. Ever. And it's closely followed by Halloween. Which is funny because those two holidays happen to be the Gardner's FAVORITE holidays. Anyways, since we were living with Jason's family during April Fools, I kept trying to come up with SOMETHING I could do for April Fools but everything I thought of just seemed mean or gross. After browsing through a few ideas other bloggers had though, I finally decided this seemed like a cute idea so I gave it a shot. What do you think?

A cupcake frosted with plain white frosting. The butter is a pineapple starburst, and the gravy is caramel syrup.

Spaghetti: frosting with a tiny bit of food coloring applied with a small round tip; Sauce: Strawberry Syrup; Meatballs: Whopper Candy; Parmesan Cheese: sweetened coconut flakes. (these ones looked disgusting, but were surprisingly delicious!)

 The Whole Plate

The mashed potatoes looked funny by the time I took a picture because the caramel had gotten a little carried away, but overall I thought it turned out pretty fun. Atleast enough to make you take a second look. (oh and the peas and carrots are orange starbursts and green laffy taffys)

 Giant Cookie

Valentine's Day was the week before Sadies in Joseph City and Jason's brother Austin was trying to decide how to answer his date. Since we were already making sugar cookies for Jasons little sister's class we decided to attempt a giant cookie to answer Austin's date for the dance. I wasn't completely sure it was going to turn out cause it was so big, but it was really fun to make and looked pretty cute in the end.

Justin had ALOT of fun helping too!

I'm not really a cake fan (I've never liked traditional frosting) but when my friend gave me a recipe for a Pina Colada cake that uses whipped cream & coconut for the frosting I had to give it a shot, and it was amazing!

St. Patrick's Day (Pina Colada) Cake

Another Pizza Store

Jason's family is planning on opening another "Mr. G's Pizza" in Holbrook come summer time. The building was in awful shape due to the previous renter, so we helped out with some of the repairs while we were down there. Well, Jason helped with a lot of the manual labor, and I painted a few things (:

I painted this in place of some lovely grapevine wallpaper, but they're still deciding about whether to paint the wood part or tear it out.

Justin was my best little helper (:

31 weeks...and still growing.