Easter

A little late with the Easter post but here we go! We dyed some eggs and the girls just loved it. They would shriek with delight everytime they put an egg in the dye and would see what I wrote on the egg in crayon. Could you imagine screaming in delight over something now? I know I don't. I think I'll have to try it more often and experience their kind of joy!

Colt slept through most of the egg dying but made it in time for a few pictures.

This is a tree in our backyard that I just love looking at. I think it's beautiful and it is sad that it only stays like this for a short while. The rest of the year it is green or bear but for now we have a beautiful sight out the back window.

Easter 2010 with the Williams clan. Colt was napping so he missed the group shot. Many thanks to Greg for acting like a dog or some other animal that the kids found hysterical. Great smiles because of it!

Egg hunt at Grandma and Grandpas. We had one at home that morning too but I used the video camera and forgot to get pictures. They loved doing the egg hung this year. Livy is a fast dilligent egg hunter while Rachel likes to go slower and enjoy the magic of finding each one!

It couldn't have been a more perfect Easter weekend. We all had a great time together and got to enjoy General Confrence the whole weekend. I really loved this session and felt like I could use every one of the talks. I love the inspired and renewed feeling I have after each conference and I am so grateful for a living Prophet and his Apostles. I know that our Father in Heaven leads this church through our Prophet Thomas S. Monson. I am so grateful to have General Conference twice a year and to hear the counsel directly from the Lord's annointed to guide me through the next six months. What a terrific way to concentrate on the Savior this Easter season. I know that Jesus Christ is our Savior and I am truly grateful for his sacrafice on my behalf. I loved teaching the girls about the Ressurrection of Jesus and watching their faces light up as they learned. By the end of the week they were able to tell me a short version of the story which was so adorable and sweet to hear. I hope you all had a wonderful Easter as well!

Lake House Pictures

I've had some requests for photos of the Lake house so here they are. I will try to explain them as best I can. There are two houses on the property. This first picture is from the lower house (house closer to the water) looking up at the upper house which is closer to the road. The upper house is under construction at the moment so I don't have any other pictures of it. Can't wait to see it all done. It has 3 bedrooms and two bathrooms, a kitchen and living room.

This is a picture of the lower house. I am taking the picture from where the water is. It is really the back of the house but we use it as the front door. It has two bedrooms, two baths, a kitchen and living room. This is the one that they guys have fixed up on the inside.

This is from on the dock looking up to the house and yard. They added this concrete wall and steps as well as the pathway up to the house.

Swings recently added by Kevin and Grandpa.

Pictures from the little porch on the lower house. This is the view looking down to the lake and the boat dock.

The rest of these pictures are from the inside of the lower house. There is more stuff in there now since these pictures are from the first time I went there a few weeks ago.

Big fire place in the living room.

Living room pretty much connected to the kitchen, on the left of Eric.

View down to the lake from inside.

Kitchen pictures. There is a table now in that spot.

Picture of the living room. Please don't mind the toy mess! The doors on the left go to one bedroom and bath and them in the picture below the door in front of Eric goes to the other bedroom and the bathroom is up there on the right.

Everything is concrete in this house. Floors, countertops, everything. It is in the flood zone so that will help protect it if it does flood.

Left bedroom. Has a set of bunkbeds in it now and a furniture set. It looks very nice.

Second bathroom.

Bedroom on the right. Also had a set of bunkbeds and a rug in it now.

View of the lower house from the upper house. A "casita" as they call it. That is probably spelled wrong. They guys did a lot of work painting and cleaning and repairing stuff. It looks great! Thanks everyone for all of your work. Alan has been there everyweekend for the past two months and Eric only missed one of those! Jeff, Kevin and James all put in some time too! Thanks everyone for doing all this work and making a great place for the family to gather. And a huge Thank you to Brenda and Alan for getting this place. It's a great place to get away to. We have fallen in love with it very quickly and have had a great time hanging out with you guys there!

A Little Lake House Vacay

Brenda and Alan bought a house in Austin on Lake Travis. The past two weekends we have gone up to hang out there and are loving it. The first weekend it was cold and windy so we didn't get any pictures but the second weekend was beautiful weather.

We spent some time out on the boat dock watching ducks pass by and boats. Eric really really loves it there and has been up there for the past 5 weekends fixing it up. The girls love it there and so do I. I love watching them just play around and love life. No shoes, playing and getting dirty. It's fun and relaxing with no pressure to feel like you should be doing something else or get something done. And a great view!

Fun with dad. He's a great dad and they had lots of fun fishing with him this past weekend.

Marshmellows for breakfast.

Fishing lessons

Livy loved it and was concentrating very intently the whole time just like she does any task.

Rachel trying to catch herself a big one!

Fun with daddy.

Some Grandma and Grandpa time! Thanks for having this great escape we can go to!