The coolest nephews around

So, when I was pregnant with Eventide, Mitchell went to a conference in Portland. As it was pretty close to my due date, I stayed at his sister Jessica's home for a few days just in case I went in to labor. If you don't know Jessica's family, you sure are missing out! While this post is actually about her awesome kids, I have to mention that Jessica is just as awesome and wonderful. So, anyway, while I was staying with Jessica's family, I spent a lot of time with her two youngest sons, Salem and Forest. They always have these totally priceless and often hilarious and insightful comments, and so I started writing down things that they were saying so I could remember. I just recently rediscovered the little paper where I wrote down all that stuff. I loved it so much, I thought I would share it with you guys (p.s. at this time, Forest's favorite things were Indiana Jones and The Haunted Mansion-He had seen Indiana, but not The Haunted Mansion).

-"When I'm 18, I want to stay be a kid and I'm going to watch The Haunted Mansion. I'm going to let you buy it for me."-Forest

-"Do you know what happens when you fall in to a volcano? You burn and die."-Forest

-Salem: "Ladies first!
Forest: "Why? Because Courtney's a lady?"
Salem: "mhm!"

-"Everything about life is about Jesus and the gospel. Bad guys don't do Jesus things. They do Satan things and Satan things are bad."-Salem

-Forest or Salem (cant remember): "What #s make 13 when you put them together?"
Me: "1 and 3"
Forest or Salem: "What numbers make 6?"

-Forests sang about The Haunted Mansion to the Indiana Jones tune.

-Referring to the Haunted Mansion-"Maybe we can watch it when we are both 18 and we can have a big bowl of popcorn and our own milkshakes and Courtney, do you know what kind of milkshakes they will be? Strawberry."-Forest

Can these boys BE anymore awesome? I submit that they can not! :)

New shoes!

Last week on Thursday I went to the Just Between Friends sale and got some pretty sweet stuff for Eventide! I got her a bunch of 18 month clothing, some shoes, a little Elmo chair and a Kipper dvd (a cartoon). One of the pairs of shoes I got her were these adorable little Mary Janes (for only 2 dollars!). I didn't expect her to care or notice, but when we put them on her when we got home and sat her in her little chair, she thought the shoes were so cool!




Also, a few nights ago, We were watching TV and Eventide was cuddling with me on the floor (which she only ever does when she is tired) and she decided she didn't want to do that anymore. So she got up crawled in front of me and then laid her head down on my leg and promptly fell asleep.

Easter package

My parents sent Eventide an Easter package. We really wanted to open it, so we cheated and opened it last night when we got home from the Easter egg hunt and Mitchell's parent's home. Eventide loved it! Thanks Nana and Papa!

Easter Egg Hunt!

Yesterday, on Friday, Mitchell and I put together an Easter egg hunt at Mitchell's parent's house for Eventide and 10 of her cousins! It was a lot of fun! We found these little bunny rabbit baskets for 50 cents each at the dollar store and we bought one for all the kids. The kids had fun and they were great in helping each other to fill up their baskets. :) Due to inclement weather (it was snowing yesterday!) we had to move the hunt indoors, but the kids didn't care.

Eventide found some eggs!




Panta:


Salem:


Charity:


Elaine who just found an egg in a shoe (with Hannah in the background):




There was one special easter egg that we had set out. It was one of those little towels that are cramped into a shape and you add water to get the towel to expand. Anyway, this one happened to be in the shape of an egg. Buddy found it and when he found out what it was, he was pretty excited...as you can tell.


Some of the kids discovering what's in the plastic eggs. Also, something of note-Next to Eventide is Elaine and she is continually giving E'tide kisses and hugs and talking to he (which is what she is doing in the picture). Eventide's cousins are so great and loving towards her. I love it!


Eventide smiling up at her Aunt Jessica (Mitchell's sister).


Eventide can bend down and pick something up and stand back up with out falling! Not all the time, but she is beginning to do it more frequently. :)


Eventide's first dyed Easter egg:

Helping with the dishes!

Eventide likes playing in the kitchen and so if I go in there, Eventide is sure to follow, especially when I'm doing the dishes. She likes to put various magnets from the fridge and whatever toys are around her in to the silverware holder in the dishwasher. I could only hope that she is that enthusiastic about cleaning the dishes when she is older.