April Showers

Thought I'd post a couple pics of the thunder/lightening storm that occurred about 2 hours ago. It didn't last, but it was long enough to blow all our neighbors garbage cans over and give our lawn a nice drink. W have baby leaves on the trees (Cam is ULTRA excited about this and made me take a picture) and our grass is nice and green (it has already been mowed 5 times this year...) maybe we'll get to use it this year after all. I'm a fan of spring thunder storms - especially when they are kind enough to wait for my golf game to be over with.

Under the Sea...

On Wednesday, Austin, my BFF Heidi, and I went down to SLC for some shopping and aquarium fun. We had never been to the Living Planet Aquarium before, so I thought we better go see what it was all about. Austin thought it was cool. Both Heed and I are preggars so the nasty fishy smell was kind of making us nauseous the whole time but other than that it was pretty cool. The outside of the place is slightly on the ghetto side; I swear it used to be in an old Kmart building or something. The inside was a lot nicer and there were some neat things to see. All the dude cared about was the shark tank (of course) and the dang anaconda. My favorite were the penguins and the gross octupus - just because I've never seen one in real life before. It was nasty. It was definitely something fun to do, but I don't think we'll be back anytime in the near future. I still smell fish...

After we headed over to Nordstrom's for a little R&R of shopping and eating at the yummy Nordstrom Cafe. If you haven't tried their bread pudding - it is a MUST. Completely fabulous.

Easter....etc.

Easter was spent basically enjoying mounds and mounds of sugar. I'm glad we have already gotten the dentist over for awhile, because we are going to need time to recuperate. We hit up the egg hunt in West Haven this year - it was kind of insane. I am used to the small town feel of the little Lion's Club sponsored Hyde Park egg hunt and this was nothing like that. There was at least 1000 people there! Austin kind of got overwhelmed at first and just stood there amidst all the candy and didn't pick up a dang one. Then he finally got into it and came away with about 10 whole pieces...whew. I think we'll probably go again next year because it seriously lasted maybe 10 minutes from the time we got out of our car to the time we got back in. Kind of funny. After that, I made my mom's recipe of chocolate dipped marshmallow eggs (YUM!), fruit pizza for dessert the next day, and we dyed eggs. On Easter we went to the official christening of my rent's NEW KITCHEN! It is spectacular - as soon as they get the tile back splash finished, there will definitely be pictures. Uncle Benster was nice enough to take Austin on another Easter egg hunt (so much sugar...). Fun-filled weekend, I'd say.