Saylor

After 9 years, we said good-bye to dear Saylor. She is staying in Marshalltown, and has been adopted by a wonderful family with 6 kids. It was not an easy decision since she was our first "baby" but it was what needed to be done. Jack has had the hardest time with all of it, he cried and cried when she left. He wrote a letter to send with her so she could always remember her. The saddest thing was that he wanted a picture taken with her so he could put it in his room.

This picture just breaks my heart:

It is so weird to have a pet around for 9 years and now have none! No one runs and greets us at the door or cleans up all the food that gets dropped.

She is missed.

Easter 2012

Easter was a little unique this year because it was at the end of our Spring Break. Not only that but I couldn't travel because of being pregnant and they were watching my blood pressure. So we stayed home for the week and had a lot of fun doing and making different things.
We started our week off with homemade donuts:

Another day we made s'mores with peeps:

We ended the week making homemade ice cream in our new ice cream maker! YUM!


One last thing (not involving eating) we dyed Easter eggs...

My dad and brother came down for Easter weekend. We had our Easter dinner on Saturday since I had to go back to school on Monday and people needed to travel home on Sunday afternoon. It was a great weekend and again we all had fun hanging out around town. I was not very good with the camera when everyone was here! I didn't take any pictures.

The Easter Bunny came on Easter morning and brought exciting things like new makers, toothbrushes and toothpaste! :)