Spring has sprung!

Spring is officially here! I know I'm a little late since it's pretty much been spring here since February, but who really cares? I'm happy, my boys are happy and the weather is warm and that is all that really matters. March was a busy month for us but we managed everything just fine and April is shaping up to be great as well, even though Jackson has decided he's a princess and Owen thinks the bookcase is his personal lounging area.

Sitting pretty! He was even twirling around and everything. He thought he was very pretty.

What a little ham!

My little brother Aaron just got home from his mission a couple weeks ago, but I was unable to go to his homecoming because of my church calling(1st counselor in the Primary Presidency. Had I gone, our Primary President would have been left by herself to do sharing time, music time and conducting and I couldn't go and feel good about it so I stayed home. I didn't even tell her that I was supposed to be in Montana because she didn't need the added stress that information would have added to her tendancy to stress out. I was sad about missing that chance to be with my whole family for the first time in a couple years, but I would have gone by myself with the boys, so it wouldn't have been a complete family reunion anyways. I'm planning a trip next weekend for my sister Elizabeth's 20th birthday because everyone except my older sister will be home. Again, Jeff will not be able to go with me, so I'm going to try and make an 8 1/2 hour trip by myself with a 2 1/2 year old and a 1 year old. Can you tell I'm so looking forward to it? Thank goodness we bought a dual screen dvd player on Black Friday this last Thanksgiving. I'm going to try to leave in the late afternoon so they will sleep at least most of the way. I hope. Pray for me otherwise it will be a long and stressful trip.

Jeff is now working as a full time receptionist in the Rehab department at the hospital here instead of an aide because aparently he's the only one they can trust to do a good job while the other receptionists are on maternity leave. One of them was induced yesterday and the other is due in a few weeks and neither will be back full time until October at the earliest, so he's on his own until then. That means he won't be able to request any time off for family trips to Montana for a while, so any trips we make this summer will be without him. He has applied to get into school at BYU-Idaho and was accepted on the Spring/Fall track, starting in September, but he's going to call them and see if it would be possible to switch to the Winter/Spring track starting in January instead. He's also going to apply to get into the nursing program here so I guess we'll just have to wait and see what happens. I'm all for moving to Rexburg so we can be close to the temple and my family, but this decision is up to him, so I'm trying to keep my opinions to myself. He knows how I feel so I'm trying not to push him. Too hard :)

Easter here was a ton of fun this year. In years past we really haven't done much because Jackson was too young to really understand much. This year, however, is the year I'm throwing out all the stops so that Jackson can have fun. It's amazing how much he's changed and how much he learns in such a short amount of time. For Easter all the Quilter siblings and their little families came to Grandma and Grandpa Quilter's house near where we live, so we got to see everyone and still slept in our own beds :) We wanted to do the Easter Egg hunt between sessions of General Conference, but we had a few stragglers who didn't show up until after, so the kiddo's got to get into their Easter Baskets and play with their new kites.

Mylee and Jackson in their cool toybox shades

Kites! 

Jackson and his cousins Mylee and Eli had a complete blast even though their daddies kept stealing their kites to have kite wars. Needless to say, this ended up with some tangled kite strings and some treed(you know, like stuck in a tree?) kites as well. Silly grown ups.

Jeff being a goofball after freeing one of the kites he and his brother were playing with

Owen, Elijah and Ciara looking for their eggs

He was more interested in eating the eggs and just taking them out of his basket than anything

He sat in the same place for like a half an hour just playing with his eggs and basket. Can you tell he had fun?

Can you tell it was getting to be naptime? That and the wind started to pick up so it was time to get the kites back out, not something Owen was too interested in.

Jackson was the first one out the door and was so excited to be looking for eggs. Of course, he got lots of help from mommy and daddy...

Good thing too. This one was too high even for Mylee and Brayden who are 2 years older.

I think he found this one on his own :)

I'm going to back up just a little bit right now. Don't worry, I'll get on track again soon :) A few weeks ago while I was at my sister-in-law Missy's house to see her adorable baby girl(and new mommy of course :)), she offered me some fabric she'd had laying around for a while. She had bought it with plans to make some jammies for one of our nephews, but never got around to it and wondered it I would like it to make Jackson something sweet. Seeing as it is WALL-E themed and Jackson is a little WALL-E obsessed(though we don't have the movie), I accepted, only to realise when I got home that I'd left it. Whoops. Fast forward a couple/few/whatever weeks and once again I was over there for some reason or another and saw the fabric in the living room and remembered I needed to take it home so I stuck it in the diaper bag so I wouldn't forget it again. I know, I'm a spaz, but you know you still love me. Again, fast forward another couple/few/whatever weeks to just a few days ago when I realised that fabric was just sitting on my catch all of a dvd holder where all my "current sewing projects" reside while I put off getting them done, so I rescued it from the pile and went to work on it. I had an idea of what to do, but had no pattern. At all. Then I remembered that I'd seen on one of the numerous crafty blogs I follow(and wish I could be like) that if you fold a pair of pants/a shirt/skirt/whatever you already have in half and trace around it, you don't really need a pattern. So I set to work. Very nervously, but still confidently. When I'm trying to figure something out, I'm rediculously slow and a bit obsessive about making it just right and it makes Jeff a little crazy. Once I figure it out I'm fine, but getting there takes patience and a major backache. Fast forward an hour or so and I had finally finished, quite quickly in fact, a pair of WALL-E jammie pants for Jackson.

Please ignore my messy living room floor :)

 I decided they needed a matching shirt to go with them, so I took a white undershirt/jammie shirt and cut out a few of the WALL-E's that were on the fabric and just sewed them on. I think they turned out way stinking cute and Jackson loves them, so I scored.

Again, with the mess. 2 little boys= lots of big messes. Can you tell he likes the jammies? He really didn't want to take them off and was very disapointed when I told him they needed washed before he could wear them to bed.

Of course I couldn't leave Owen out, so I made him a matching set (though the pants were too tight on his thunder thighs so I had to add a strip down each leg) and they look so adorable! Yay me!

What a cheeser! Isn't that smile the cutest? He learned it from big brother, can you tell from their pictures?

So, now I just have to finish the rest of the projects that are cluttering my living room and maybe I'll be able to go to sleep without running them through my mind a bazillion times trying to picture exactly how I want them to look. Wow I'm long winded. Anyways, have a great day/week/month and when I get home from Montana I'll try to post some more pictures! Adios for now!

PS Here is the picture of Owen's Birthday Shirt :)