Easter

I realize that my posts average about 1-2 months behind, but...here is Easter! (I am determined to catch up). I found these bunny ears and was so excited to put them on Jake on Easter. His face says it all. I realized I was just like the mom in the Christmas Story who makes Ralphy wear the pink bunny pajamas. I will probably torture all my sons with this type of thing until I have a girl:)Still not happy about it

And now distracted with a toy...haha

Here he is looking at his Easter basket in the morning

After church we headed to my Grandma's for dinner and an Easter egg hunt. My cousin Adam hid the eggs and the hunt turned out to be just between me and Marc. We are very competitive with each other, so the race was on!

We ended up with a tie! So the tiebreaker was to count the money that was in our plastic eggs and whoever had the most was the winner...Marc won.

Jake did a little crawling around hunting for eggs at his level

My poor child...I didn't give up and tried again with the bunny ears. This time, my aunt Trina got a cute smiling picture of him. Success!

Marc's Luau Birthday Party

Marc turned 30 on April 12th and we had a hawaiian luau party for him at my Grandma's pool. We had burgers and hot dogs, pina coladas, and authentic hawaiian music (that I bought back in my BYU Hawaii days).

The pina coladas being made at the Tiki Bar

Tiffany was my waitress

Fortunately the weather was ok, but the pool was still too cold. So rather than a luau pool party, it was a luau jacuzzi party...which was still just as good

Marc got some fun gifts...dvds, bike tool, a game, camping gear, a miter saw, and...a new mountain bike! His bike got stolen last year, so that was his big gift. (He actually opened the catalog with the picture of it cuz I couldn't transport it to Whittier).

My sister-in-law Veronica made him the most awesome luau shirt birthday cake.

Well, I am happy to be done throwing birthday parties, all though they were a lot of fun. Next year maybe I'll hire someone:)

Jake's Rubber Ducky Party

Here are the pics from his party. No 1st birthday party is complete without giving the baby their own cake and seeing what they do with it. I think he was wondering why everyone was staring at him and so he was a little more timid about it at first.

This was the main cake I made:

Everything is ducks...

A kids game we played was "pin the tooth on Jake"

A game for the adults was a Jake Trivia game, where the top scorers had to race in a bottle drinking contest...it was pretty funny to watch.

Here's most the kids at the party...cousins and friends

Grandpa Frank, Grandma Barbara, Aunt Kathy, Aunt Veronica, Uncle Mike and cousins Nathan and Sean

Grandpa Mark

Grandpa Gordon and Grandma Marianne

Gene and Adam

Karen, my dad, Tim, and Trina

Timmy, Shannon, and Luke

our friends Gene and Julieour friends Kenneth and Tiffany