5 things about my eisley

I have a few minutes before bed, so I thought I should add a post. I did this for both my boys and wanted to make sure I got a post done for Eisley too. So here it goes...

1. Eisley is a Mama's girl. All the way. And not just in the fact that she checks for me when she's playing or how her eyes never leave me when someone else is holding her, but in the fact that she shows excitement the same way I used to as a kid. I used to tense up all my muscles and ball my hands up into fists and shake with excitement. Eisley does this too, except her hands aren't in fists, they are usually with spread fingers and flexed wrists. I find it absolutely adorable!

2. My little Eisley is the happiest and sweetest baby. She always has a smile for me and has a great temperament. She is such an easy baby and hardly cries. She started sleeping through the night around 2 months old too. Just a good baby!

3. Eisley is a busy body! She loves to go and go and go. Once she learned to crawl she hasn't stopped and she likes to take the hard way. She always likes to crawl over, through, or around anything in her path. Clint and I decided we could keep her busy for hours if we created a little baby obstacle course for her.

4. My baby girl loves to smack her lips when she eats. I love it! I feed her a bite and she smacks her lips, sometimes so much that I have to distract her to even get another bite in before she starts smacking again.

5. Eisley gives the best baby hugs ever. She grabs my shoulders or neck and squeezes so tight. I think she's already figured out how to get whatever she wants from any of us in this little family.

And that is 5 things about Eisley girl.

Link's Birthday!

We've spent a little time canning lately. We canned some tomatoes, stewed and juice.

 Then we canned some apples, some for baking and some applesauce. We used Fuji apples and they turned out really good. My boys beg to eat them all the time now.

  And, for the title of this post, we celebrated Linkoln's 3rd birthday! He wanted to eat at Texas Roadhouse, so we met some of his grandparents there and enjoyed the meal. Since it was his special day, they brought out the saddle and sang to him. He didn't want to get off. He thought it was great.

 He waved his hand and said yee-haw!

 Then we came back to our house for cake and presents. He got to blow out the candles.

 Then open some presents.

 Then he gave hugs and kisses for all the gifts.

 Next up was cake. I told him to smile and this is what I got.

 Anyway, he was spoiled, but loved to have a day just for him.

 

Here's a few pictures since my last post. Eisley started eating some solid food.

 Here she is ready for church one day.

 For some reason, kids always have a fascination with our fire place, Eisley is no exception.

 Sunday the boys came up from playing and told us they were ready for church. Clint had them show us their superhero muscles and took a picture. They think they're pretty funny. We do too, but we don't like them to know it since it goes to their heads.

Well, now that I'm caught up, I'll try to stay up on it. So until next time, farewell!

Utah Get-away

We started out April with a little get away to Utah. Clint's Grandma Hamblin turned 80 and so we went down for her big birthday bash. We met Grandma Kristi, Trisha, Ali, Grant, Tess, and Pierce at Chuck E. Cheese's. Corgin got some vampire teeth with his tickets and wanted me to take a picture of his scary face.

Link was a little nervous about the big mouse, but I was able to get him to smile for the picture anyway.

 What's a trip to Utah without stopping for some fresh Krispie Kreme's? Here's Link, Ali, Grant, and Corgin enjoying their doughnuts.

 After we had partied hard the night before with all the family and great grandparents, we took Corgin to a Jazz game.

 Then we listened to conference at Grandpa and Grandma Hamblin's the next day. When the guys all went to the Priesthood Session, we ladies took the kiddos to a trampoline park. They had a blast.

 I think the foam pits were Corgin and Link's favorite. They spent a lot of time jumping there.

 And this little lady has started doing this. She isn't quite crawling yet, but she rolls and scoots and is able to get wherever she wants to go.

 She's also become a very good planker.

Now I am finally caught up on my blog. Let's hope the April showers bring us lots of May flowers!!!

And let's not forget our March. . .

So, guess who did their hair again? I don't know who is the slower learner, Link, who obviously didn't have a good punishment from last time, or us, who left the hair stuff on the counter where he could reach it again. Either way, he did it again.

We had a hard time keeping a straight face. This one knows he's cute.

 

 I think this one knows she's cute too. She's a very happy baby.

 Here are the little munchkins before church on St. Patrick's Day. We made sure they all had on green!

 And before we knew it, Easter was here. We decorated eggs a few days before the celebration of the Resurrection of our Savior. Clint and I found a ninja decorating kit and knew the kids would love it.

We were right.

 Here's Link with his eggs.

 And then he asked in his sweetest sing-songy voice, "Pretty please, can I play with my ninja eggs?" He does this thing now, where he puts his hands together by his face and tilts his head when he asks for stuff. It's hard to say no when he asks like that.

Here is Corgin with his eggs. He was very proud of his one eyed dragon and his three eyed ninja.

Here is the completed set.

 Then Easter morning came around. The boys had to find their baskets.

 Then we had breakfast, green dutch babies cut in Easter shapes with pink dutch honey.

 Then out to another egg hunt. They did one the day before at our ward party.

 

 I tried to get a picture of them, but the sun was too bright and they were too eager to go in and see what was in their eggs.

 And, for some reason I only got Eisley in her Easter dress, and not the boys in their Easter clothes, but she makes up for it with her big smile.

 After church we went to my parents for Easter dinner and another egg hunt. We still have tons of candy left over. I didn't get any pictures while we were there, but we had a good time.

 

And that, people,

concludes March.