Easter

We had some wonderful friends over for FHE, their daughter is such a great friend for Nicole and their other two daughters were born within a month of Jake and Diana. No egg dye spilled and I think the only person to drop an egg on the floor was me :)

We had Easter dinner with the missionaries and the kids were awesome helpers when I went shopping earlier in the week and they each got stickers from the cashier for being so good. It was one of the rare occasions when someone came up to me and said "what a sweet family you have" as opposed to (the sympathetic and understanding) "you've got your hands full". Then the kids did a sticker page, art and wear a mask that Grandma Ostler sent while I did the baking. We had tricolor rotini pasta salad, Watergate salad, egg nest bread (bread with colored eggs that cook on top), deviled eggs, Hummingbird cake (a Southern staple that is INCREDIBLY tasty), fresh strawberry pie, slush punch, and a ham of course. I didn't get any pictures of our Easter Sunday family getup, but Nicole had a sweet dress, Diana wore a pink fluffy dress from Nicole's baby days and the boys wore matching light blue dress shirts. All darling, but we were in a big rush to be out the door by 8am to make it to a homecoming talk by our nephew and the camera was the last thing on my mind! :)

Diana fell asleep drinking the other day. Made me laugh to see her all drunk out on milk :) She had her 9 month visit a few weeks ago. She is 16lbs5oz (9th %), is 27.5in long (46th%) and her head is 17.5 in around (63rd%). She has been a very healthy, happy baby and is starting to pull herself up on things and get into the toy box. She even made her brothers proud by pulling hard enough on a cabinet lock to make it snap off. So it begins again!