Candy Bars, Easter, Best Husband and Friends

As I said in the last post, Grant received a special letter in the mail from his Great- Grandma and Grandpa Green. They sent an awesome letter along with 3 $1 bills for Grant to buy himself and his mom and dad a Milky Way candy bar! Grant and Cameron walked down to the store on the corner that very day to buy the candy bars. Grant was very happy. 

Here he is walking to the store

 picking out the three candy bars

Handing mom hers- Thanks again Grandma and Grandpa Green!

Just some play time. Side note: Cody is 3 1/2 months old here(Just for my own knowledge I guess)

 I had a pretty rough few weeks at home with the boys the last part of February and the first few weeks of March. Between Grant's surgery recovery not being as smooth as we had hoped and Cody getting sick and both boys getting up many times throughout the night and it just being so cold and nasty out that we really couldn't leave the house(let alone the fact that the flu was literally declared an epidemic here in Ohio, so I didn't want to chance taking the boys out and getting them sick). Also, Cameron was in the middle of his most difficult semester of anesthesia school which didn't help things. I know it doesn't sound like much, but it was pretty rough on all of us. So Cameron walked in the door one night (March 21st) after being at the hospital since 5am, handed me a bouquet of flowers, a very sweet hand written card, chocolate, and a gift card for a pedicure! He then said "I'm going to take care of Cody all night (he was still sick so he was still getting up a lot at night), you can lock yourself upstairs and sleep all night. I also took tomorrow off so I can play with the boys while you go get the pedicure.

 I love him (:

And since i'm super light sleeper, he pulled out our spare twin mattress and slept just outside Cody's room so he could hurry and get to him before I could hear him from our room upstairs. It was the best gift ever and really what I needed to get reenergized and a bit happier (:

Getting out of bed on Easter morning

Spotting the basket

This picture is hilarious... you can see he has a lint roller sheet stuck to his bum! He wakes up with them all over him.

Checking out his dollar store loot

He got a couple of eggs with a piece or two of candy in them since we knew he would be going on an egg hunt later and have plenty of candy

He loved his little dart gun. He chased Cameron and I around shooting us all day

 "mmm mmm"

"mom, look! I'm eating candy for breakfast!"

Later that day, after church and short naps, we headed over to the Stelters for an awesome Easter dinner with the Swans and Franklins and the sister missionaries. Here are all the kids getting ready to start the Easter egg hunt after dinner. 

Finally released!

He was sprinting around everywhere. That's why I don't have any great pictures. 

He was so sweet and kept walking up to the adults that were watching and offering them some of his candy. 

Dad and Cody watching the festivities

 Cody wasn't so happy that it was so bright outside

the younger kids

Sam, Truman, Faith and Grant

This was the day after Easter. I was carrying our nice serving dish that we got for our wedding back downstairs and dropped it! Sad day...

 Trying to get a good picture to send to Aunt Paige on her birthday. Grant thought he was hilarious, holding the sign crooked. 

 My best friend from growing up has been serving a mission out here in Ohio since last year, but she has never been even close to us at all. Well, just by total chance we saw her when we went to the Kirtland visitors center over Christmas with my parents. She was able to take us on a tour and it was SO fun to get to see her. We figured that was probably the only time we would see each other before she went home, BUT just a few months later she was transferred into the building that we go to! I get to see her pretty much every Sunday now. It's so fun and almost weird and surreal at the same time. 

I was able to take her and her companion out to lunch in March

Sister Frampton and Sister Larson

"Sister Larson" and me-ignore my stil-not-sleeping-through-the night-dead-tired-look (:

Cuddling with mom

wearing some new-to-us Batman jammies

brothers

Grant has recently figured out how to push his chair over to the freezer to reach the ice cream cones... It's trouble!

 Buddies

This boy is a Thompson at heart. He has been sucking his thumb literally since the moment he was born. He LOVES his thumb

his awesome new-to-us cars slippers!