This is a must-see for anyone having a baby or who plans on having a baby. Probably a little radical for those who haven't ever thought of birth outside the confines of a hospital, but I feel strongly that with anything this important, it's good to know as much as possible. If you go to the website there is a list of showings around the country or you can get it through Netflix like we did.

So, this is the 99th blog entry that we've posted, making the next entry the 100th. I keep on thinking that it really needs to be something special. Any ideas? I'll have to see what I come up with. As fun as pictures of my cute kids are, I don't think that is the special something I'm looking for, so I'll just have to make this a miscellaneous free-for-all entry so as not to breech the precious 100th entry. I really like the comment my friend's husband wrote on their blog. Actually, I guess I can call him my friend since I was friends with him before they ever started dating. But anyways, here it is, "My kids are cuter than other people's kids. I truly believe this. And so do you, if you keep a blog."


Happy Keester, oh, I mean Easter. Painting baby's behinds is probably as sacrilege to the true meaning of Easter as my scheduling the hard boiled egg eating contest back to back with the Bishop giving a heartfelt telling of the Easter story at our ward's Easter activity yesterday. I didn't realize it until the moment arrived and after bumbling through a sorry excuse for a transition, seven guys began stuffing their faces with hard boiled eggs. In case you were wondering, to win, you either had to eat 5 eggs before everyone else did or had to have eaten the most in 2 minutes. The winner (he also won the hot dog eating contest at the opening social last Summer) finished all 5 eggs in 1 minute--the rest of the competition had a least two eggs left on their plates. It was pretty gross. What was his secret, you wonder? Instead of chewing the egg, he took big chunks and swallowed them whole with a swig of water.


Here's Alice with the Easter eggs she collected at the activity. We started out having everyone get 5 eggs and then once all the children got 5, it was a free-for-all. Alice really took advantage of the free-for-all part.

A couple of days ago, Alice had a run in with the asphalt on the basketball court behind our house. You can kind of see it in this picture, right next to her eye. Anyways, when someone asked Bruce about it at the activity, he told them it was a basketball injury. Hmm...


Alice has monopolized most of the Easter baskets in the house and seems to have at least one in hand at all times.



Mark, Karen, and crew came to visit last night and stayed for the Easter festivities. The kids hid chocolate eggs and had fun hiding and finding them over and over and over again. Alice was in 7th heaven with all her cousins to play with. Here they are making Easter egg pictures out of rice glitter--a craft we did at the Easter activity on Saturday (thanks to my friend Sierra for giving me the idea).

Well, I am just so glad to be done with planning things, at least for the next little while. In the last two weeks I've organized and prepared a dinner for 40 people, hosted a surprise baby shower, and was in charge of the ward's Easter activity. I'm tuckered out and flat out of good ideas. Now what to do for my 100th blog entry...