Happy Easter!

We hope everyone had a happy Easter. Our Easter Sunday was kinda strange since we had stake conference instead of regular church. I don't know about you guys, but it just wasn't the same. I never did get pictures of the boys in their new Easter church outfits, but here are a few pics of them in their PJ's with their baskets. Tyler refused to just hold his basket so I could take a quick picture. he just dove right in.
It was raining and yucky out all day, so Tyler had to do his Easter egg hunt inside. He had a great time anyways. Every time he would find an egg he would point and say "oh egg ride dare" meaning right there. We snuck a few eggs out of his basket so he could keep hunting.

DISNEYLAND

As many of you know we went to Disneyland with Brandon's parents and his sister Nicole's family. We had so much fun with them. We spent 3 days at the parks (Disneyland and California Adventure). Our hotel was right across the street from the main entrance to Disneyland so we just walked to the parks each morning. Surprisingly enough almost all the rides are kid and even baby friendly. There were only a few rides Tyler couldn't go on and just a few more that Gavin couldn't ride. Lucky for us Grandma and Grandpa were there so we could ride while they watched the kids or we just took turns. Tyler liked most of the rides. After each ride I asked him if he had fun. He would say "yes", and then I would ask if he wanted to go again and he would say "no... no way!" There were only 2 rides he actually said he wanted to ride again, Toy Story and Autotopia (driving the cars). We're glad we had the opportunity to take the kids on such a fun trip and can't wait to do it again sometime.

Happy Valentines Day

So I've not been very good at keeping up with my blog. Sorry! I noticed that last year I did the same thing at this time of year. Old habits die hard. Anyways, here are a few cute pics of the boys on Valentines Day. Their Grandma Hardy sent them matching shirts. Don't they look cute!

Our Christmas Vacation

As many of you know we went to Phoenix Arizona for Christmas this year. It was our year to spend Christmas with Brandon's family, much to the disappointment of my own family (not because they didn't want to share me, but more they didn't want to share Gavin and Tyler). My disappointment came from having to take family pictures! I really was hoping to loose a little more baby weight before any permanent reminders of how fat I get when pregnant were taken. But instead both families insisted on pictures at Christmas (boo hoo hoo). I hated the one from my family, and the ones from Brandon's family we have not seen yet, so no pics here (sorry).
On a better note, we did have a lot of fun with Brandon's family. Everybody was able to be there this year. In total there were 8 grandchildren, 9 adults, and 2 large (one very large) dogs running around the house. I know Tyler & Gavin loved playing with their cousins, grandparents, aunts and uncles. WE cherish the time we get to spend with them since we live so far away and it isn't very often we get to see them.
The weather was nice while we were there. A few days of cold (ha ha, 50 felt warm to us), but much warmer the rest of the time. We went to the park and the zoo. Brandon went golfing a couple of times, and I went shopping and to the movies (what more could you ask for). All in all had a great time!
Now I have to tell you why we don't have too many Christmas pictures. Before the trip Brandon and I had a little disagreement on the camera situation, which resulted in us not having very many pictures. Brandon got a new camera for Christmas (before Christmas) and wanted to bring it with us. I had no problem with this, but the trouble was he wanted to bring along it's very large carrying case. I told him I didn't mind if he took the camera, but that he should skip the case and pack it with his stuff and not carry it on the plane. I was worried about security seeing as we were traveling with 2 children, 1 stroller, 2 car seats, 1 diaper bag, a laptop, and a DVD player. I didn't think we needed to add another very large camera bag. So Brandon took what I said as if to mean that I didn't want the camera at all, and packed our much more compact Elph camera, which in the end didn't get used very much because he was using everybody elses camera's for pics. So Hardy family members please send cute pics our way!
We had a great time and didn't miss the camera much until now when I'm struggling to find cute pics to post! We hope everybody else had a wonderful Christmas and enjoys the New Year!

Gavin opening presents (mostly trying to eat the paper)

Tyler's pile O' presents

Gavin and Isaac awake at the zoo

and a few minutes later fast asleep

Tyler and Grandpa Hardy

Tyler and Brandon on the carousel

Santa Photos

I took my boys to get their Santa pics done. I wasn't sure if we could get a cute one of either of them, but I think they turned out great. My little sister Megan is working (taking pics) at this particular Santa Photo, so we got some extra TLC. Tyler did great, and loved Santa. He didn't want to get off his lap. He even snuck away from us while we were choosing which pics to buy to have another turn. When I realized he was gone and went to go get him, he was on Santa's lap with 3 other kids who were trying to get their picture with Santa. OOPS! Do you think their parents will notice the extra child? My usually smiley Gavin wasn't giving it up for Santa, but he still looks adorable anyways.