Aprils Activities: Eggs, Bananas & B.C.

Easter

Easter was a little busy with General Conference and all, so Sheridan and I took Seth and Ellie out the Saturday before for a little Easter Fun.

It was a beautiful, bright sunny day and Seth was ready to go!

Ellie on the other hand was keeping a low profile.

Last year when we went to a community egg hunt, we were walking from the truck to the field about 50 yards away when the horn sounded to start the hunt. By the time we arrived at the field there wasn't one egg left in sight. A dad felt sorry for us and made his kid put 2 eggs back on the ground so Seth could pick them up and put them in his basket. He was young and didn't know any difference, but this year we didn't take any chances. We found a hunt that only let a few children through at a time and would "re-plant" the field between each group.

Meet Seth- the Mighty Hunter!

Babies, Beds & Bananas

The time had finally come for all of us to make bed updates around here.

Ellie had outgrown her 'Moses Basket' on top of my nightstand, so she moved into the closet.

That booted Seth out, so he moved to the floor between the bed and the closet and at the same time upgraded to his cool new sleeping bag instead of just blankets.

Joel and I didn't change sleeping locations (ours is the only bedroom in the place), but our mattress, which we fell in love with when we bought the trailer 2 1/2 years ago, was starting to not treat us so well. With Joel's chronic back problems and fibromyalgia we needed something better. I had been looking into memory foam mattresses for a couple of months when I came across a Costco coupon for a $100 off one they carry. We decided to go for it.

We didn't make it to the store until around 7pm, so I suggested to Joel on the way home that we should just take the box inside for the night and then when we get up in the morning open it up and lay it out to give it time to "un-compact" all day long before we had to sleep on it. My wonderful honey had a better idea- open it just as soon as we get home (in his defense, he claims that the box wouldn't fit through the door so it had to be opened), lay it out on our existing mattress and then if it wasn't fully 'fluffed' by bedtime we would just sleep on top of both.

We stayed up until almost 2am but that mattress was still just about as far from ready as it could be. As we climbed into bed we had to find a semi-comfortable position on what looked and felt like a big banana. Not only were we sleeping on a lumpy mess, we were sleeping about 4 feet off the ground thanks to the doubled up mattresses.

Sorry to say we didn't get any pictures, but we slept with those doubled up mattresses for over a week before we got our old one out of here. We are really enjoying our new bed.

Our sleeping arrangements truly give meaning to the idea of 'family unity'!

The Vancouver B.C. Temple

As a ward activity a group of us from the Arlington 2nd Ward caravanned up to the open house for the new Temple just outside of Vancouver. It is one of the smaller temples, but still good sized with 2 stories. As temples always are, it was beautiful inside and out with a dogwood theme throughout.

Seth was so excited to be able to go in.

He even wore his 'Moroni' tie in honor of the occasion.

Ellie even put on her fancy duds.

After we left the temple we headed over to Stanley Park right in the middle of Vancouver. It's a beautiful, not so little park full of trees, trails, and a water front views.

Ellie wasn't so enthused

But Seth had a great time!