Hunt Home: April 2009

I was trying to make Conference "extra" special and made cinnamon rolls the night before so they'd be ready first thing Sunday morning. For some reason they turned out dry. We ate one and chucked the rest. Not so special. Oh well! Conference was good. I liked the Easter talk by Elder Holland. I think that talk, along with the Easter Egg Hunt we did for Deacon confused Nathan. He really thought Easter was that Sunday. So then it became a joke all week long. If there was a commercial on TV, Nate would say, "Why are they still advertising Easter? It was last week." Ü

Deacon picked up on the egg hunt really quick. Especially since Nathan put jelly beans in each one. He would find the egg, open it, let the jelly bean hit the carpet, chuck the egg halves over his shoulder, eat the jelly bean, and look for the next egg. I was trying to get him to put the eggs in his basket, but they had served their purpose and he was moving on.

Tax season is usually our busiest time of year at work, but it has been pretty slow lately. Monday they offered to let me go home early and I was all over it. I came home unannounced, seven hours early, and the look of worry on Nathan's face was priceless. He was so sure I was laid off. So we went to Red Robin and used Nate's birthday coupon for a free hamburger. On Wednesday, I took Deac to get some birthday pictures done. He was so good, except he would not smile. He would just stare at the camera. I finally told him to show his teeth so all his pictures turned out with him having a scrunched face/closed eyes and lots of teeth (kinda like the one below). They are adorable though and I can't wait to get them back.

My birthday boys with their cheesy grins

Speaking of birthdays, Deacon's was on Friday and Nate's was on Saturday. With Deac's current basketball obessision I decided to make him a hoop ball cake. I was going to buy grape rope (licorice) to make neat little basketball lines. But I forgot to buy some, so I thought it would be no problem to mix a bunch of food coloring in the frosting to get a nice black color. I guess it was more of a gray-green because Nathan saw me frosting the cake and asked, "Why are you smearing avacado on his cake?"

When you ask him how old he is, he will say 'two' but hold up five fingers.

Nathan had to go to work right after Deacon blew out his candles, so we gave presents the next day. I went a little crazy buying Deacon's birthday presents so I split them up and used some for his Easter basket. And by "crazy" I mean I spent $12 at the dollar store Ü hahaha. Nathan says I better step it up next year and actually wrap his birthday presents :) Here his is grunting and reaching for the presents in my hand:

We got him a little baby doll to prepare him for a baby sister. It came with a plastic bottle that Deacon tries to suck on (yeah, little scary to put toys in your mouth that possibly came to the dollar store via China and lead paint). He love, love, loves the golf club that came with a ball and hole. And he's a fan of the foam alphabet puzzle too. I don't know if he's just a lucky guesser, but he seems to know about ten letters pretty regularly.

Nathan told me exactly what he wanted for his birthday, so there really wasn't any surprising him. But I at least expected to be able to wrap them for him to open on his birthday. No such luck, he found the packages and opened them a week early. Behold: the sour pickles he has been searching months for. He finally found them on Ebay and I ordered them:

I've never seen a more happy man

And from Amazon:

He had a wonderful time teasing his Sunday School class with the remote control fart machine. It is very realistic with five different "settings." There are a couple family reunions this summer, so I just want to give a warning to everyone.

Nathan had to work all night Friday, so I made a little birthday breakfast when he came home Saturday. Yummy crepes with cream cheese and blackberry jelly or with fresh strawberries and whip cream. Deacon kept calling them cake-cakes....I think pancakes? Not a lot of birthday pictures because we mostly video taped. That night we had strawberry shortcakes for Nathan's birthday, but I had accidentally put the whip cream back in the freezer after breakfast, so it was frozen and we were all sugared out anyway.

The Easter Bunny was a little late coming to our house. After church, and after our naps. Nathan's is The Littlest Petshop basket Ü. He got Cadbury eggs (his fave), Jerky, ring pops, a chocolate bunny, and FRUIT SNACKS. He's been eating Deacon's fruit snacks, so I finally bought him his own box. Deacon got chocolate that was covered in sports wrappers (basketball, soccer, baseball, football, etc). He loved them and took and hour to eat two because he just wanted to play with them with the wrappers on. He also got some playdough, monkey plates, and Trail Mix, aka Nuts.

"Large and in Charge"

I'm 30 weeks along and I think the end might be in sight! I was excited to find this new maternity top for $6.00! I spoke briefly with Nathan's dad this evening and told him we had a wonderful Easter feast. He immediately said, "Oh, what did Nathan make you?" Ha! I was indignant! Ü This was a meal that I actually thought out and planned and Nathan only "helped" (he usually tries to take over). So we had a wonderful honey glazed ham, good ol' Nauvoo Potatoes (aka funeral potatoes), a yummy green bean casserole, rolls, and pop. We rarely buy soda, so it was an extra treat (courtesy of the dollar store). Yeah, nothing says Easter like orange soda.