Busy, Busy, Busy

The end of April/beginning of May seems to be a very busy time, whether you're a student or not. Working for the University certainly means you've got a lot to do. We had a lot of graduation picnics and parties and graduation itself. They were fun, but just left time for little else. But hey, I've got lots of picture to make up for lost time, including the Easter pictures I've left out for the last month or so.

For Easter, we try not to over-do things like with Christmas or Birthdays, because we try to remember what Easter is really all about. Jared got a lot of chocolate and a Jason MRAZ cd and I got Sherlock Holmes on DVD.

Jordyn got a musical sea horse that lights up and plays music when you push it's tummy, kind of like a glow worm. Uriah loves Elmo, so we got him a small stuffed Elmo and a little sounds story book.

Uriah loves to have his picture taken, and he certainly didn't mind having it taken on Easter morning.

On May 5th we had a graduation picnic and ate lots of good food. Lana and Ben came to stay for the week and they came to the picnic with us. Uncle Ben decided that it would be fun to tie a bunch of balloons to Uriah to see if he would float away. He didn't float away, but we had a hard time finding him in all the balloons that were tied to him. He also got his face painted. He had a clown fish painted on his cheek but as soon as the artist finished drawing it Uriah wiped his hand over it and smeared it. Oh well.

Uriah sure likes to wear himself out, and lately he has been falling asleep in such cute ways. In this picture, he fell asleep and he wasn't even all the way on his bed!

In this one, he fell asleep reading his new ABC book.

Whenever I get out the camera, Uriah just has to ham it up. He likes to make sure he is in the pictures and that he gives me a funny face. Here are some pictures of my little guy being hammy.

Jordyn is growing so much. She is the cutest little bug ever, and we always get people telling us how cute she is. Grandma McCurdy made a blanket for Jordyn that has different textured ribbons and strings on it for Jordyn to feel, and she loves it! They seem to be very popular with little babies.

She can roll from her back to her tummy to her back again, over and over and over, and sometimes, if we aren't watching, she will roll right off the blanket she is on and all around the living room. She loves to be on her tummy, and she wiggles her legs so much that she gets her knees up under herself, and we have no doubt that she will be crawling soon.

Jordyn loves her mommy and daddy so much, and she always smiles when she sees us. I am always amazed at how bright eyed she is in the morning when she wakes up. Whenever I go get her out of her crib, she has a big smile for me. There is no way I can be sad whenever she is around.

Whenever anyone is holding Jordyn, all she wants to do is jump up and down and shake and wiggle her legs. Everyone asked us if we had a jumper for her and we tell them we didn't, that she just wiggles like that because she wants to. Well, the other day I went and bought an exer-saucer for her to play in, and she loves to be in it. She can turn in circles and grab all the toys on it and make some noise.

Uriah really likes it too. He tried to bounce it while she is in it, but she doesn't like that very much.

We had a pretty good Mother's Day. We went to my sister's ward so that we could see my nieces and nephew sing a few primary songs about mom. Then we had a party at my mom's house and we played games and ate some snacks. It was a lot of fun. The weather was nice, so we were outside most of the time. Uncle TJ decided to share his hat with Jordyn, and she looked quite cute in it.

Jared has started one of his summer classes today. It is an online class and this is the first time he has taken one of those, so I think he will do okay. The weather has finally started to warm up and actually act like summer is coming. At the beginning of May we had a whole bunch of snow, and it has been in the 30s up until this last weekend. It was in the 70s on Saturday and Sunday and it was just beautiful. I hope we have a lot more days like that so we can be outside more. I am so thankful for the Earth for all it provides.