Easter!

We actually celebrated Easter a week early and had our egg hunt conference weekend. I hid eggs for my sisters, Jeff hid eggs for me, and we all hid Michael's. There were about 50 eggs and 4 bunnies hidden in my small downstairs. We had a lot of fun:

Michael's favorite part was playing with the Easter eggs. He wasn't as interested as I had hoped in the egg hunt. He did eventually figure out that there was candy in them and if he found more he'd get more candy, but he preferred to find an egg, eat the candy (very slowly), and play with the egg for a while before hunting again:

I tried to dress Michael up for our ward Easter party to make it a little more festive. He was less than pleased. At least I got a few pictures before I took it off him:

Like I said, it was a lot of fun.

Sisters

Life is still pretty much taken by school and respective jobs, but lately it is not unusual to find my little sisters, Katie and Amy, over for food or hanging out. We'll watch tv and play on our phones and ipads and pretty much just enjoy each other's company:

Michael loves the extra attention he gets as they compete to be Favorite Aunt.

I really like having my sisters over so much, partly because I love cooking for more than 2 people (and a half? Michael doesn't really count) and I usually don't have to deal with left overs when they join us:

Michael is, of course, still cute. And a pill. He's gotten into the "tantrum phase" and we're working on how to deal with it and him. Timeouts seem to be making an impact, thankfully, but sometimes my patience wears a little thin and I end up making his timeout a bit longer than the recommended 1-minute-per-year. Michael is very good about staying in his chair until the timer beeps, though, and even cheers when he hears it. He's such a sweet boy and we sure do love him.

Here he is "loving" on poor Sadie:

And pushing Minnie in the baby swing: