Monson Update

In March, we got to go down to Columbus to be with the Coons and the Wilsons for a couple of days. Chris and Laura were blessing baby Elizabeth in church and it was so fun to be able to be there. For some reason, we don't actually have pictures of the adults, but we do have some fun pictures of the kids.

Here is Elizabeth sitting in her Bumbo.

Tyler came to entertain her...

And shortly thereafter, he got stuck in the Bumbo himself.

This slide was an absolute hit with just about all the kids. We were pleased to watch Josh as he worked on sharing and taking turns. On the Saturday afternoon we were there, we got to go to an awesome park where everyone had a really great time, including the adults!

For St Patrick's Day, I REALLY wanted to make some kind of green food and green eggs just didn't sound so good. Here are our waffles, although they turned out pretty nasty-looking as well.

That evening, we had our friends Shawn and Emily Tate over for our Leprechaun shakes. Unfortunately, all of those pictures are actually on their camera. They brought over a pizza that had a shamrock made of pepperoni on it and we ate it all while we enjoyed the BYU basketball game. Go Cougars!

Josh has been helping us cook lately.

For my birthday, I awoke to the very nice smell of pancakes and bacon. Steve had arisen early and made pancakes, eggs with fresh mushrooms (SO tasty!), and bacon. It was such a good breakfast!

As I was taking him to work, I convinced him to let me make my own birthday cake so that I'd have something to do while Josh was napping. Here is my 2-tiered cake.

That evening, we tested out a new ice cream place called iCream which brilliantly combines interesting flavors, colors and mix-ins and then freezes them with liquid nitrogen. It was fun! We also went to a restaurant called Qdoba. We enjoyed it all. My main gifts were the game Stone Age and the movie Tangled. It was such a fun day!

Now to a few random things.

This is about what it looks like after Steve gets home from work everyday. He gets down on the floor and wrestles with Joshua for a while until dinner or bedtime. Its always fun for me to see them interact.

Josh loves his 'hat' and wears it whenever he can find it.

His newest thing is to put on our shoes and do his best to walk around. Its adorable!

He's also been enjoying the signing time videos that my mom let us borrow. He's getting so good at them!

General Conference was last weekend and during the second session on Saturday, we were able to sustain our general authorities. Joshua caught on really fast and he kept saying "Again?" after we raised our hand for each sustaining. It made us feel proud. :)