Easter 2015

I'm back!!! I cannot believe it's mid-June and the last post was for the beginning of March. Basically I'm ridiculously behind mostly due to the fact that I lost my card reader for my camera SD card. And yes, it took me months to go get another one. But here's for making up for lost time!

Easter is the first big event on my list of catching up. Easter this year was so much fun because it was the first time we had a little human that could actually understand somewhat of getting presents, etc. Ryan and I decided to do an Easter egg hunt for Samantha and our neighbors the Hursts. (Samantha's always more happy when their kids are involved.) The Saturday before Easter we hid eggs, each color for each kid. Ryan had a fun time hiding them all according to their ages. The little ones were basically just around the grass. But the older ones got harder and harder. It worked out perfect because they all finished about the same time and could enjoy their spoils.

Prepping the night before

Getting ready to hunt

Ryan explaining the rules

Finding all their treasures

Felisha had added a "golden" egg for each kid that had a special treat. Samantha was spoiled with a wagon!

Daily walks in this thing are now the norm

 Easter morning we were so excited for Samantha to wake up and get her basket. Her reactions are priceless now. Much better than Christmas when all she wanted were the apples.

All the Easter baskets

She was instantly in love with her baby

The face says it all

It was also general conference that weekend, so after the morning session we headed over to my parents house where the grand kids were spoiled. Samantha got her own slide! Which she LOVED, and went down about 50 times while the rest of us watched conference.

 After conference Morgan was so excited to do another Easter egg hunt for Samantha. However, this time she wasn't as in to it because she knew there were things in the eggs, so after each egg she just wanted to sit down and eat whatever was in it. Who cares about the rest of the eggs? 

It was such a fun day, and it officially started Samantha's eating sugar phase... it was so nice when she didn't know what she was missing out on. But I guess that couldn't last forver, luckily at home we can still keep it to a minimum.

Bahamas Cruise

Ryan had been dreaming of going on another cruise ever since our honeymoon. Once I got pregnant and then when Samantha came, it seemed like it was getting harder and harder to make that dream a reality. During our Valentine's day dinner though Ryan had found a great deal on a cruise, and we had some flight credit that worked out perfect so we decided to go for it. It was super last minute, we booked on Valentine's day and left the first week of March.

It was a much needed break. Luckily I was 15 weeks pregnant and starting to get past the nasty 1st trimester stuff. The cruise was amazing. We embarked out of Port Canaveral Florida. Our stops were Nassau and CocoCay, Bahamas. We such a good time just taking it easy on the beach, seriously over-eating, and going to several shows. It may be a few years til we can make something like this happen again, so we are super grateful we got the opportunity to go. And a huge thanks to my parents and Ryan's mom for taking Samantha for us. We are lucky to live so close to grandparents that are happy to take our little girl.

This is in Nassau. We did a lot of shopping and walking around the cool markets there. Then we took a boat over to the other side of the island to an amazing beach where we just relaxed for hours.

 

Look at that sexy man!

My 15 week bump

I get such a kick out of the towels folded into animals every night on your bed! It never gets old.

 Last stop was CocoCay, which is a private island that Royal Caribbean owns. It was simply heaven. The water was so clear, and you could walk out for a mile and only get up waste high. That's my kind of ocean, ya know... too shallow for the killer sharks to come eat you.

This guy seriously charged Ryan, I was scared for his life. He was HUGE, I'm sure at least 5 ft long with that tail

Our kind of vacation