Another Perfect Sunday!

Our pastor at church always starts out the services on Sunday, "I promise you your week will go better because you started it in the house of the Lord." I have found that to be true quite often. Even the Sunday that Tyler fell off the ladder. . . at first I thought, yeah, my week is going horrible! But in hindsight, our week could have been a lot worse. But back to today.

It was just a great day all around. Sang at church this morning, went running with Tyler around Lake Phalen. The kids went and played at Nana's and Poppa's. Then we all came home for our quite time. Then, it was off to Casey Lake Park. Zoey rode her bike there for the first time. She was so proud of herself! Zander enjoyed a wagon ride. He is very ready for a bike too, though.

Enjoy the pictures!

Uncle Eric's Easter Pictures

Uncle Eric had a camera along for our fun Easter celebration. Here are just a few of the pictures that he took. . . Love them!

Easter Weekend

Since we moved into our current house, Easter is fast becoming one of my favorite holidays. The weather has been nice and we tend to spend most of the afternoon out in the backyard. . .playing. The Easter Bunny spoils the kids with lots of candy, egg hunts, and overflowing Easter Baskets. The church service is always wonderful. This year was especially fun to watch Zander's face when all the brass and percussion instruments were playing. Zoey is the complete opposite of what I remember being like as a kid. She LOVES to dress up in a pretty dress for the occasion.
It is just fun!

A little noodle-fighting with the family.

Watch out Nana and Poppa--Zoey is pretty good. "En Garde!"

This is the game that Daddy and Zoey affectionately call "Run, Catch, and Throw Up!"

Nana is ready to hit against the up and coming pitcher for the Minnesota Twins!

Auntie Tammy and Zoey taking a brief break from the action.

Uncle Eric's sister Molly and her son Darian joined us for our Easter celebration.

Uncle Eric took a lot of photos. . .I am hoping to get some copies of them, because I know he captured a lot of neat shots!

Zoey was an expert egg hunter this year.
(She should be, this was her 3rd egg hunt of the weekend!)

On Good Friday the kids and I decorated our Easter Eggs.

There was also the annual egg hunt at daycare.

Other exciting events from our weekend included a visit to Hazel's house to help her celebrate her 3rd birthday! It was a lot of fun! The kids especially enjoyed the cake!

Happy Birthday Kylie and Kristie!

This past week both our nieces had their birthday. On Friday when we got to Rob and Nicole's we had a 1 year old, a two year old, a three year old, and a four year old all under the same roof! Kristie turned one last Wednesday and Kylie turned 4 on Saturday. We partied hard on Saturday to help them celebrate. It was nice to see everyone. . .it had been a while!

Rob told me that Kristie hardly ever smiles for pictures. Here is my collage of pictures that I took of her in the span of about an hour. I wish she would smile more!

Kristie thought that the gift from Grandma and Grandpa Nyhlen made a nice cup holder!

Here is Uncle Tyler and Kristie hanging out at the YMCA during Kylie's party.

The birthday girl herself. . .

Kylie, her cousins, and her friends all played hard in the YMCA Playland. They all had a blast!

Zoey thought that Kristie was just the cutest thing ever! We all agree!

A rare shot with everyone looking at the camera. . .

Kylie and Zoey doing a little reading together. It made my heart happy to see how well they get along--even though they don't see each other that often. Hopefully we can get the cousins together more in the future.

(I know the above picture isn't the most flattering of Zander,
but it was just too cute not to post!)

Auntie Nicole and Cousin Kristie. . .

Our little musician!

A Fantastic Way to Begin March!!!

First of all (and most importantly), Grandpa Nyhlen had surgery last Monday on his colon. The pathology report came back and showed no signs of any cancer left in his body. We are all thankful for that news and continue to pray for a speedy recovery! We love you Grandpa!



Second, Zoey lost ANOTHER tooth. I will let the video tell her story. (Make sure to watch for the Monkey See Monkey Do!)