easter festivities

today was another awesome day.

maybe the sun was a little too bright.

makes me look like one of those bloggers that doesn't post pictures of their child's face.

baby girl was all up in this tree... got every last egg.

we went to the egg hunt in my in laws neighborhood.  it was legit.  skittles, starbursts, these sugar coated lifesaver gummis...  loving the eater candy.  baby girl liked it too dangit.

easter bunny

honey and i posed for this family picture sans brady.

for some reason baby girl didn't want to actually bounce in the bounce house but she loved standing at the base of the slide and watching the kids go down.  she looked precious in a sad sort of way.  made me laugh.

happy easter from the hilliers!  we're starting to look like a real family!  just wait til we add our next five kids.  juuuust kidding.  three more will probably suffice.

abigail likes to know what the words say on all of her clothes and brady's.  chris was unaware of this tonight when i was at the young women's broadcast and he was at home with the kids... apparently a humorous and confusing situation went down when abigail repeatedly pointed to brady's shirt while telling chris "it's you big guy!"  "it says it's you big guy!"  ha.

 

 

 

mother son picture.  i know it's silly but having a son makes me feel so special.  not sure why but it 100% does.

hard at work

 

 

 

baby girl came to me sooooo thrilled that she put on her shirt all by herself!  (she's been dressing herself more and more lately and is getting really good at it!)  she excitedly looked down to show me thomas and... umm... immediately became frantic that she couldn't see him.  ha.  

don't worry.  i helped her remedy the situation.

and we all lived happily ever after.  ps- i got her these pjs in 2T for christmas.  they shrunk a lot after the first washing.  luckily they went on clearance and i picked up bigger pj's for $3.  let the pj love live on!

honey woke up at 5:30 or something insanely early to play drop in hockey this morning.  then he took a nap this afternoon and then he fell asleep tonight sometime around 8 30 while i cleaned up the kitchen and got baby girl to bed.  i may have been slightly annoyed that he went to bed before our kid (to his credit, he actually got brady to sleep tonight before i got home from the yw broadcast!) but i thought it was no big deal since i was about to put abigail to bed anyways.  well, i was telling my sister emmy about this the other day but baby girl's ocd is getting a little out of control lately.  especially when it comes to bedtime.  tonight i made the trek up our stairs probably FIFTEEN times in the space of an hour.  our bedroom is downstairs and it seemed like as soon as i got in bed, i'd hear her on the monitor again.  the main issues of tonight were...

i need another hug

i need another kiss

my sippy cup is making noises (this accounted for at least four or five of the trips upstairs)

i have boogers, i need a tissue! (and then after i wiped her nose it was "throw it in the garbage!!!")

say goodnight!!!! (i literally walked in, said goodnight, and walked out again)

i have tears.  i have two tears.  (needing me to wipe her tears with her blanket... or just instruct her to do it herself)

i need my nightlight on! (because it's been sooo long that the timer reached its limit and the light went off)

the other night i went up and down those stairs three times at 1am with baby girl's random requests and then two times again at 2 am for brady.  i told emmy, this would all be severely annoying if i wasn't laughing at the humor of it all.  i used to go up and down those stairs four or five times a day.  now, it's got to be at least THIRTY.  and when it's between the hours of 9pm and 9am, you just can't help but laugh about it.  i mean, what other option is there?!

here's to another night!

happy easter!

happy easter!  we had a great day at church learning about the resurrection and life of christ.

 

 

in case your sunday wasn't quite like mine, take a few minutes and learn about the resurrection and the life of christ.

i promise it's worth your time.

easter saturday

our day.  in pictures.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

easter sunday

we could also title this "my husband refuses to believe he is color blind."

i told my christopher on saturday that he needed to wear a pink tie to church on sunday since baby and i would also be wearing pink and we could trick people into thinking we were a cute, put together family.  he did a really good job and looked absolutely charming in his handsome suit and pretty pink tie.  i was in the middle of telling him this, on our usual drive to church of hitting every single light on el camino, when he looked at my skirt and said "why'd you want me to wear a pink tie to church today?  why're baby and i the only ones wearing pink?  why're you wearing an orange skirt?"

WHAT?!?!  orange?!?!  i already knew my skirt wasn't bright pink but i've never had anyone call it ORANGE before!  we spent the rest of the drive debating the color of my skirt and i may have reminded him of the time we went to home depot to pick out a red "for rent" sign that he insisted was orange.  it lead to a pretty animated debate that involved polling a number of people shopping the aisles.  i'm pretty sure i won.  anyways, we asked baby what she thought (she was the only one around to poll) but didn't get a definite answer.  so throughout church honey continued to comment to me on my "orange" skirt.  and on the way home he fake polled people in the cars driving next to us.  now that i think of it, it was kind of hilarious.  he can be funny like that.

so here is my "orange" skirt.  you can't really see the seersucker unless you enlarge the picture (go ahead and do that now). the colors actually "match" better in the picture (because the light colors are so blown out) than in person. i'll be honest, they actually clash.  i didn't realize until we were about to walk out the door just how different our "pinks" were. baby's dress was a true pink and white. my skirt was more of a cream and vintage rose sort of color combo.

isn't the dress to die for?!?! i am so in love with it. my wonderful mother actually got it for her. coincidentally, she also got me my skirt. she also gave me that cartigan that used to be hers. wonderful is definitely an understatement.

i am obsessed with my child. just in case you forgot.

poor baby girl. after church she was soooo tired from being awake for somewhere around five hours. as i was about to put her in bed i remembered that we hadn't taken any pictures. so i took us all outside and we got those pictures (above). then as i was about to put her in bed again i realized that maybe down the road i would want a few pictures of her in the glider since that's kind of our spot for taking pictures. i set baby in the glider and BAM! she exploded! in a fit of crying and a whole lot of tears. totally traumatized that she'd never get her nap. so we have this blurry, out of focus, sad face picture.  my baby NEEDS her beauty sleep.

anyways, i think it's hilarious.

ward egg hunt brunch

this is what we did this morning.

we also had big plans to hit up the big EV (stanford student housing) family easter egg hunt since it was supposed to be amazing BUT baby girl was nodding off on the way home from our ward party so we thought it was best to get her down for a nap.  see?  sometimes i make sacrifices for my child.

it was her only nap today.  noon to 3:30.  we've been doing a lot of that one nap stuff lately.  today it worked out perfectly because we went to the most over the top decked out one year old birthday party ever.  so we partied it up from 4 30 to 7.  and then we had plans to go to a volleyball game but our baby was spent so we headed home.  we were feeling very selfless today.  obviously.

baby ate for over an hour.  SO MUCH FOOD.  and then after a little playtime it was down to bed.  today was one of those just really pleasant days.  and tomorrow is going to be even better.  because we're going to wear matching pink easter outfits.  i lead a charmed life.

with my precious little family.  aren't we cute?

say yes.