DISNEYLAND AND YES!!!
Here I am in my new pretty Belle dress. I earned this dress sticker by sticker for being good and no pee pee in my underwear (excuse us that was a little crude!) I was so excited. That was the one thing I requested for this Disneyland trip. Cara has also been pretty good so Mommy got her a pretty dress up dress too.
We leave tomorrow morning at 5:30 A.M. Aunt Rachel and Mommy are a little bit looney and very very very excited.
Probably not. But Cara sure is acting interested. She likes to sit on the potty (but only if she still has her diaper on.) And she has also started telling Mommy when she goes peepee and poopoo in her diaper. So we're going to call it minor interest. I'm noticing that Mommy isn't pushing Cara nearly as hard as she pushed me to be potty trained. Must be because there isn't another baby on the way. A little unfair. Then again, I was at least willing to sit on the potty for hours and watch TV. Cara sits for two seconds and says "All Done!" and jumps off.
Actually Cara is really turning into a little girl lately. She tries to talk in sentences and is getting very good at her new signs. Actually she keeps trying to teach the little day care ladies at the gym signs. Whenever Mommy comes to get us, the ladies always tell her about the signs Cara showed them. She helps say prayers and put on her clothes. She is IN LOVE with chicken nuggets and almonds. She will eat chicken nuggets for any meal of the day (and yes Mommy lets her have them in the morning!) and can eat like 10! Mommy has also really enjoyed that our play has changed and we're doing lots more pretend games together. We spend time entertaining ourselves and each other without the TV being involved! I'm putting Mommy on notice that she needs to write down more of our cute encounters because she'll miss them when we're 13 and 15!
Probably my favorite part of the lake this time (and I bet Cara's) was that Grandpa left us on the beach with Mommy and let us play for a long time in the sand and the warm shallow water.
On Sunday, Mommy agreed to go on a quick hike with Grandpa. (If you look back on our blog, we go on hikes on Sundays with Grandpa a lot.) However, we came under dressed and so we made a quick stop at our house and grabbed hiking shoes and the backpack for Cara. We went in to Snow Canyon State Park and had a great time. I tried to follow Grandpa up some little bouldering stuff but was quite unsuccessful. 
I did get to hike almost all the way up to where the pioneer names are written on the rock. And we saw a lizard. A big fat lizard! 
This is a beautiful time of year in St. George. We love it.
Guest post by Mommy:
Now I have told my sweet husband that I am going to post this story and he is mortified. I told him that I think that this is more a reflection on the type of person I am and what I wear than him as a husband.
Yesterday I had kind of a crummy afternoon. Things in my professional life have kind of hit a low and April just has not been a good month for me at all. So to cheer me up we went to pick out some glasses for me (I only wear them to read...which makes me sound old..I told you 27 was terrible! But also to drive at night.) Anyway we went up to the mall and walked through Dillards first and I saw all the pretty shoes and fun styles and turned to Pete and said "Ooo do you know what would make me feel better?"
And without missing a beat, he responded "A new pair of flip flops?"
I laughed so hard. But he is so right! I got two new pairs of flip flops for my birthday and I was THRILLED. However I'm noticing a lot of cute shoes out there and I am beginning to think that I need branch out and maybe, I dunno, try some cute heels.
Right after this exchange, we walked over by the pantyhose section and Pete saw the Spanx ones and said, out loud, "Or maybe we should get you some of these!" He was teasing of course, but one of the woman employees heard him and said "Oh you are in trouble!"
It was a very funny five minute stroll through Dillards and cheered me up quite nicely.
We were lucky and started our Easter celebrations on Saturday morning! Mommy and Daddy took us to the park by our house to go on an Easter Egg Hunt with some of our neighbor friends. Apparently it was a little early for Cara or maybe she just got tired of waiting for other people but either way check out the look she gave Mommy! "Don't take my picture!"
She needed a little bit of coaxing to pick up eggs and wouldn't take any of the candy that was lying around that wasn't in an egg. I on the other hand, needed no coaxing. This was the year that I finally got it. I understood everything about the Easter Egg hunt and I fisted the candy that was just lying on the ground right in to my basket.
And this was Cara's basket:
Then this morning, the Easter Bunny was kind enough to leave our baskets full of play dough and special markers with special paper and these really neat colored bubbles. For some reason, Mommy and Daddy looked a little less enthused about the colored bubbles...I wonder why?
We went to church and listened to Daddy sing in the choir and learned about what makes Easter so special and then we headed to Grandma's house where the Easter Bunny had hidden all our eggs. (It just occurred to Mommy that she has no pictures of us all pretty in our Easter dresses....so pay attention to how pretty they are in these action shots!) We had fun on our Easter Egg hunt and then basically just played around at Grandma's while it thunderstormed and didn't go home until way past our bedtime. Pretty much a normal Sunday!
(We also just noticed that Mommy must have had a fingerprint smear on the front of her camera for the egg hunt so it kind of gives it this fuzzy glowy look like maybe we already made it to heaven!)
At the beginning of this week, Aunt Rachel came down with my cousins, Romney, Chase, and Emma! We had so much fun. Mommy already wrote about fun at her birthday but we also spent time jumping on the tramp, hiking, swimming, and having a pajama party that became a tea party with Fresca and Lucky Charms. I loved it. Romney slept in my room every night and on the last night she was here we stayed up telling each other silly stories for so long! I think Chase even enjoyed it because on our hike we went in search of lizards and found so many. Unfortunately for Chase, nobody actually caught one but we still chased lots!
(I appear to be unhappy in the above photos which was untrue...it was very hot at the end of the hike but also I just kept posing for photos with Romney like that!)
(This last photo is the only one Mommy has with all five cousins in the shot, and you can't even really see Cara!)
And Mommy would also like to include some her favorite photos that Aunt Rachel captured of us kiddos:
