Idaho and cousin Khloe

After celebrating Easter at home, Sunday night Mia and I went to Idaho because my brother, his wife, and their daughter Khloe were there from Wyoming.  We stayed until Sunday afternoon and had a great time.  Mia and Khloe are 10 months apart.  They did pretty well together for the most part.  Khloe is so quiet and well mannered that she really made Mia look like a wild and crazy girl.

This picture was actually from the weekend before when we were up there.  Mia got to sit in the hot tub for the first time.  She enjoyed it and grandma let her take the rubber ducks in which made it even more fun.

 Grandma and her grand babies.  My mom was so excited to have her grand kids there.

 We took the girls to see the horses by my parents house.  They thought they were pretty neat.  Mia kept saying "arf arf."  Guess we need to work on what the horse says.

 Mia even was brave enough to pet one of them.

 While we were in Idaho Grandpa sold his lawn mower but not before Mia got to try it out.

 The girls loved bouncing on the tramp.  I think they wore Uncle Steve out.

 Whenever they'd stop bouncing Mia would start bobbing up and down trying to bounce herself.

 Khloe absolutely loved the tramp.

 We went to play on the neighbors swing set and since Mia is the big cousin, she got to use the big girl swing.  She did pretty good holding on but we didn't let her go too high.

 We tried to get some pictures of the girls together.  That was a joke.  A 9 month and 19 month old are not up for picture time.
We tried getting them laying down...

 Mia's face says it all...she was not a fan.

About the best we could get and it turned out a bit blurry. :-(

We had a great time in Idaho and can't wait until we get to play with cousin Khloe again.  Hopefully someday they'll live closer.

Easter

We had a wonderful Easter with Mia this year.  Coloring eggs proved to be a bad idea but she somewhat got into the idea of hunting Easter eggs.  Once she realized there was something in them she just wanted to open the ones she'd found and needed a lot of encouragement to keep hunting but eventually she got them all.Coloring eggs started out OK.  But then all she wanted to do was stick her hands in the dye cups.

 We had to put some distance between her and the colors.

 This year instead of a basket the Easter Bunny brought Mia a bucket.  Now she has her own bucket and shovel to play in the dirt and gravel at the neighbors. (She definitely doesn't mind getting dirty).

She also got a color book, a new bunny (the old one met a sad fate that is a poopy story...literally), sidewalk chalk, and bubbles.

 Hunting eggs.

 The Easter Bunny did a good job hiding them.

 The girls all ready for church.

So Easter night Mia and I went up to Idaho because my brother from Wyoming and his family were there.  Monty couldn't go because of work.  We had a great time (I'll post that in a bit).  My little brother Shawn has a wonderful talent as a photographer.  I wanted to get some pictures of Mia in her Easter dress while we were there but he was really busy with school and work.  Our last night there right at bed time he said, "OK, lets go do pictures."  I stripped Mia's PJ's off and threw her dress on.  We were out taking pictures for all of about 4 minutes but Shawn worked his magic and we got some beautiful shots.

 Great work Shawn!  Thanks again!