So wow it has been forever! This post may be a bit long so I can catch up. Last month Daniel had one of his paintings displayed in the Statewide Art Competition here in Bountiful. We are so proud of him! He didn't win a prize or anything but he was excited just to be chosen for the show out of 300 some odd applicants. Below is a picture of his painting entitled "Praise to the Man". Let me know if you "get it". I totally saw it but probably just because I watched it take shape. Our parents had a hard time "seeing" it so I'm curious as to what other people see. I wish you could see it in person, these pics don't really do it justice.
Easter was fun, a little disorganized as the sleep-deprived Easter bunny forgot to find the baskets til the morning of...then decided we should hide eggs in the yard only to open the curtains and find snow on the ground! Argh! Luckily 2 year olds don't notice that the baskets magically appear later in the day, or that we waited til the snow melted to hide eggs in the late afternoon. Aliya got an awesome new toy for Easter, called my pal Violet. It's a leap frog toy and by connecting it to the computer you can teach it to say her name and what her favorite things are! So cool and she loved it! She wouldn't even turn it around for me to take a picture. It says things like "I love you Aliya.", "My favorite food is strawberries. Is that your favorite too?" Adorable. I highly recomend it, (they have a green one for boys.)
Also for Easter I decided we should make some cute sugar cookies. It didn't work out all that well from the start but we had fun. Daddy was sick so Aliya and I started getting out the ingredients and getting ready. I got out the step ladder and let Aliya help pour things into the bowl, I asked her to put the softened butter into the bowl and she reached out and grabbed it, of course coming away with a ton of butter on her fingers which kind freaked her out "you need to wipe it Mommy!" but it was hilarious! Then once we get all the ingredients into the bowl I realize we don't actually have Easter cookie cutters, only christmas ones, so that's what we used. We finally got them all cut out and baked, (burning the first batch a little) the second batch was perfect...until I managed to drop them while taking them out of the oven into the crack where the oven door closes. So funny now, but so not at the time. Aliya ate about 4 cookies while I was trying to push the cookies through the crack with a spatula and the clean them out of the drawer under the stove. In the end a basically good time was had at least by Aliya.
