Happy Easter!

Today is Easter and we had a mini Easter Egg Hunt with Reagan when she woke up. She loved it. At first she didn't really get it but once it clicked, it clicked. So I am posting a lot of short video clips of our Easter Egg Hunt and then with the bubbles she got in her basket. Well I was going to post a lot of video but it takes forever so maybe just 2. Okay just 1.

Good things
1. The Atonement
2. Sunshine
3. Seeing Reagan really excited

Hope you all have a great Easter.

It is almost here...

Today is the first day of spring and I can finally see my grass. Well parts of it anyway. My bulbs are slowly starting to peek out of the ground. Reagan is getting really antsy to go outside and play. Her birthday is coming up soon and we are trying to decide on something to get her. Hopefully an outside toy so I can send her out to release her energy instead of running up and down the hall.

I have been really busy lately doing Alison's Pantry stuff to get ready for the taste of home cooking school here in town next month. I have to get all my catalogs out before I leave to NV next week and get sharing time ready for Sunday plus do some stuff for Easter. When I get back I will put another order in and Potty Train Reagan. Cross my fingers on the last one. I would like to get all of my sewing projects done before it gets too warm so I can plant my garden and stuff like that. I am making boy bumper pads and decorating a boy room. If anyone has some great and exciting cute ideas let me know. I haven't found anything I really like yet. We are also finishing our basement room by room and we will have to move the office downstairs soon. After we finish the office it is the storage room under the stairs so I can have my hallway back and I won't see my Christmas stuff for another 8 or so months. That will be great.

Today my great things are:

1. Clean offices (one of which I don't have but will soon)
2. Talking children who know what I am saying
3. Subtle signs of spring

Anywhere else they might be more than subtle signs of spring but I live in the Artic Circle of Idaho.

Spring...Yeah RIGHT!

So...I have finally come down with the cold of the winter. I am coughing all night and waking Reagan up. So it is glorious. But while I feel yucky I thought I would take a moment to think about the good things in life.

Good Things
1. Melting Snow
2. Sisters
3. Sudafed

The snow is actually melting, it is just at a snail's pace. I can see my flower bed now but no bulbs coming up. Darnit. It is frustrating. We are trying to build some houses and the snow is just miserable.

Reagan is such a goof ball. She is talking so much now and comes up with new words all the time. Her latest is "nak" meaning snack. She goes into the kitchen about 50 times a day (I am not exaggerating) and points to the cupboards and says "nak" and then just looks at me. In the morning when she wakes up she tells me to turn the "yight on" and she definitely knows when it is "binky time". I think she talks a lot now but when she starts to put words together we will never hear the end of it.

Great Things

I was reading my sister's blog where she said she was inspired by a friend to always think of good things that happen. Well, it has got me thinking. What a great way to be more grateful for the little things in life. I need to be more grateful anyway. There are times when I get a little overwhelmed by life and can't think of anything good. So that is my new way to get myself back to reality.

GREAT THINGS
1. Children
2. Health
3. Knowing that you are taken care of

This month has been a whirlwind of busyness. We found out that we are having a little boy. That is very exciting. Brian tells everyone. He is very happy about that. We always keep busy with house stuff and Reagan keeps us on our toes.

Pictures

Because I am unable to work my blog and can't figure out how to add the pictures on the previous post. So here they are. I will figure it out someday.

These pictures of Reagan are her in her classic form. Busy doing her work, ready for battle and having a toe-picking good time.

Winter

So it is February and still snowing. The rate it is going we are never going to see spring. I keep thinking that all those bulbs I planted in the fall will come up and I will get to enjoy them but probably not anytime soon. It snowed over the weekend and we got like 6 inches of bloody snow. It is kind of like I live in the Artic. Not really, but that is how I really feel. I hate it. Usually it is not that bad or I can handle the snow but the wind is miserable and the combination of it all is very untolerable.

So this morning, I had a couple of appointments to go to and then I thought I would take pictures of the houses that we built to post to the blogs so the investors can see them. Well, they hadn't plowed the roads in the subdivision. I got all the back to one of the house and my car stopped moving. So I ran to take a picture and then had the framers push me out. It was a little embarassing experience. After that I said forget I will take the pictures another day when my car can manuever a little better. I need a hummer to get around right now.

Other than that, nothing to exciting is happening. We were glad to see the New York Giants beat the Patriots in the Superbowl. Brian was so happy about that. He hates the Patriots. Reagan is being wild and crazy like normal. I was talking on the phone the other day and she got into my baking cocoa. I didn't realize what was going on until she brought her blanket to me with brown spots on and all over her pajamas and said to me "Naughty". Yep, she knows when she has done something that she shouldn't do but obviously that does not stop her. I am in the beginning stages of potty training. It will definitely be an adventure. I had her sit on her potty for a little bit. No luck so she got off walked about a foot away and peed all over the floor, down her legs, and onto her onesie and then slipped and fell on the floor. Better luck next time I guess. She is getting so big and says all sorts of new words. She came to Brian yesterday and said "see it" but it did not sound like see it at all. She has a favorite hat that she loves to wear. I will post a picture. It is actually a kneepad. She is such a funny girl.

Bumps and Bruises

Just when I thought that had Reagan under control and she was maintainable she learned to climb. Climbing is great if you are a monkey or some other climbing animal. For a child, on the other hand, not so great. I know it is something that we all go through hopefully when we were a child. We do to learn things. Last week she managed to figure out how to climb on the kitchen chairs. From there is it all down hill. Then comes the piano bench, the table, and finally and I hope finally the piano. I have a nativity set up on top and she could see the lambs and was determined to get to them and she did. She managed to climb high enough to grab the lamb and pound it on the piano yelling "BAAA!"

Along with those new climbing skills comes the falling skills, something which she also mastered last week. Hopefully she will master the gracefully landing skills next week. Wishful thinking. She continues to amaze me. I taught her to say "ho ho ho" just for Christmas. It is cute. Today she finished her milk and came running to me saying "more mom". I am just happy that she didn't say now! I am sure that will come soon too.

Being it Christmas time, I have tried to enjoy the smells and sights and slick road if you can enjoy those. I have to say it has been harder this year than most. But more importantly I think about the reason we celebrate the season and it makes me more grateful than ever to have such a great family. So to all or anyone who reads, have a merry Christmas and A great new year!