Easter

Our Easter weekend started off on Friday when we said farewell to our beloved but very unreliable Jeep Grand Cherokee.

We've been looking to get a new car for awhile now.  I was actually test driving cars on my due date but we never found anything that was everything we wanted in a new car.  Our main problem was that we wanted 4 wheel drive since we will be in Utah in a few months but 4 wheel drive is not easy to find in Memphis, TN!  Anyway, Zach was looking online on Thursday night and found the perfect car for us.  We test drove it on Friday and we left 3 hours later with our 2007 Rav4!

 Declan loves it - which is the most important thing right?! :)

The rest of the weekend was very relaxing watching Conference - the parts we could anyway.  It's so much harder watching Conference with a kid!  Declan woke up on Sunday to find his very first Easter basket.  My parents sent him some Easter gifts - a book, a toy, and a cute new Sunday outfit.  Zach and I got him the grass and empty eggs which he LOVED!  We also had some friends over for Easter dinner and it was delish.

Zach and I just started P90X this past week and we are both sore sore sore!  Anyway, Declan is always entertained watching us do it and he decided to try some pull ups of his own...(please excuse his extremely wet diaper.)

Sara's Visit!

We've had just a few visitors in the last month and I love it!  Zach's youngest sister, Sara, came out during her spring break.  We had a lot of fun while she was here and took lots of pictures.  She flew in Friday night and we drove to Nashville on Saturday morning and spent all day there.  We first walked around downtown Nashville then ate at Hard Rock.  YUM!  

After lunch we went to the Country Music Hall of Fame!

We then spent some time at the Opry Mills Mall and afterward we had to take her to the Opryland Hotel.  This hotel never ceases to amaze me.  Zach and I decided that one day we will have to take a trip to Nashville and stay at this hotel.  I can't wait!

We went to the Memphis Zoo while Sara was here and we saw a Komodo Dragon for the first time!  Did you know they can eat a whole deer?  Crazy!

Declan got sick of his stroller so Zach carried him most of the time.  He loves to eat hair...

We also went to the Memphis Botanic Gardens.  We thought we could get a good picture of Declan with the flowers but he just wanted to rip them up instead!

The last day of Sara's visit we went to the Slave Haven Underground Railroad Museum.  We weren't able to get any pictures because cameras were strictly prohibited.  They turned an old house that was used to free slaves into a museum and we definitely learned a lot from our tour guide!  When we came home we had lots of fun playing with Declan and making him laugh.

He loves to attack!

We had a ton of fun with Sara and can't wait to live closer!  Only a few more months!

St Patty's Day

We had an all green dinner for St. Patrick's Day this year.  Zach had a hard time eating green mashed potatoes. :)  It was also a celebration dinner for Zach since he completed his first round of national boards yesterday!  WOO HOO!  I am excited to have my husband back now! 

These next pictures weren't taken yesterday but sometime in the last week.  Here is Declan amusing me by wearing a small mixing bowl as his hat.  It's actually the perfect size for his head! :)

This is how we often find Declan in the morning when we go to get him out of his crib.  Silly boy.

I had to take him to the doctor this morning because he woke up with a low grade fever and was really congested.  I think I gave him the cold that I had last week.  Poor guy.  Anyway, they weighed him while we were there and he is currently 19 lbs 9 oz.  Just keeps growing!

More pictures

Here are some pictures from when Zach's mom, Ann, visited.  We were able to go to the Botanic Gardens, shopping, and ate out lots.  It was so much fun!

This is the face Declan gives us every time we put food in his mouth.  It cracks me up!  It doesn't matter if it's his favorite or not - he just has to taste it to figure out what we are putting in his mouth.