You've captured my heart.
You can put a smile on anyone's face.
Your angelic presence touches all you come in contact with.
You've taught me more about love and what is important in life in just 9 short months than I've learned in 27 years.
You are so proud of yourself when you do something new. Rightly so, since you have to work extra hard at each milestone.
You've changed me but I hope you always stay the same. I love you princess!
So I am a little late with this post but better late than never, right?!?! Easter at our house was loads of fun. The Easter Bunny comes on Saturday so that Grant can focus on the real meaning of Easter on Sunday. Grant was a little spoiled by the Easter Bunny but he has been a really good boy so he deserved it all (and more)!
Gracie has enjoyed her toy and Mommy and Daddy have helped her eat the candy.
The kids looked adorable in their Easter outfits.
I swear this child cannot give a normal smile on cue...we will have to work on that!
Little Miss Chunks loves to give everyone smiles.
Bug enjoyed "checkin' out [his] new thweds" in the mirror before church.
Grant LOVES to "pet" Grace. Her face is a magnet to his hand (and a magnet to my lips).
Seriously, it was hard to get a picture where he wasn't blocking her face. Cute little Bug.
Overall, it was a great day! As soon as we got to church, some senior couple missionaries asked Grant if the Easter Bunny came to his house. I explained that the Easter Bunny comes on Saturday and then Grant said, "Jesus died. But he was resurreted (his pronunciation)." Well done, Grant! You do listen! :-)
Dear Lucy,
You are one of my best friends! I wish we could play together more but I guess our mom’s are pretty busy trying to keep us healthy. They are always talking about germs and telling our siblings to “sanitize”…silly mommies! My mommy and I have been talking about you a lot lately. I am sorry you are sick. Mommy was so sad to hear that you have Spinal muscular atrophy. I told her that I already knew you had it and that you had known, too. I know that your mommy and daddy are sad, too. I think that they wish they could take it all away. Lots of people probably feel that way, huh? I remember one time when my mommy was pregnant with me, she was driving in the car alone and she was crying pretty hard. She was sad that I would have Down syndrome. She was worried about how I would feel, worried about how I would be treated, what I would have to go through…worried about a lot of things. But then I told her, “Don’t be sad mommy. I chose this!” She stopped crying then. I remember when you told Heavenly Father and Jesus that you would accept the trial of having SMA. I remember your family agreed, too. Heavenly Father and Jesus knew that your mommy and Daddy are selfless people who give their love to everyone so freely and that they have a lot of faith and strong testimonies. You knew that you would be taken care of, huh? Heavenly Father and Jesus knew it, too. You are so special Lucy! I always loved running around with you in Heaven. We sure did laugh a lot didn’t we? Remember how before we came to Earth, we promised each other that we would see each other again soon? Thanks for keeping your promise. Whenever I see you or think about you, I feel really happy. I don’t know when you will get to go back to Heaven but when you do, do you promise that you will come visit sometimes? I know you will be busy watching over your family and helping Jesus. But I guess you’ll Kind of be able to be like all of the angels that are always around us, huh? I love you Lucy! Thanks for being my friend. I’ll tell everybody I know to pray for you. Don’t forget to tell your mommy and daddy you love them and that you are happy. They’ll be able to hear you, I promise. Goodnight dear Lucy, sweet dreams!
All my love,
Grace
Anyway, "Where's Gracie?" is something that Grant loves to ask. Especially when he has attempted to bury her or build a fort around her.
She is such a good sport. We are lucky she is so good natured. Grant LOVES to build things and he is very precise about where things go. Don't mess with his vision, man. If you do...be prepared for a melt down!
I couldn't get a picture of Grace smiling but she was happy. Well, that is until she had been stuck in there for a long time.
I had to talk Grant in to leaving an area for Gracie to see out. If he had it his way, she would be completely covered.
'Are you serious mom? Can't you just make him stop?!?!'
So we know you have only been gone for 2 days but we are having a really hard time. We MISS you! Blast those recruiting trips! Just tell all of the little BYU wanna be accountants that E&Y is a great place to work and that if they come to CA then all of their wildest dreams will come true. Then just let them know that if they have questions then you are happy to answer them via telephone. Then get your cute, little booty back home!!!! Grant is pretty upset that you went to UT without him and he has requested that you do NOT play with his toys in the basement. We spent most of the day building a loader out of books. You know the game. 
We also caught a few bad wolves, ran from lions, recaulked the rest of the bathtub (GASP, I know it is Sunday), and built a zoo with blocks. Oh and by the way, the pictures in the post are from January but you can pretend they are from today since it is the same activity and the kids were wearing the exact same thing today. And no, we did not change out of our jammies. (Don't worry folks, we aren't inactive- the kids and I just haven't been to church for a few months in order to keep Grace a bit more healthy). I thought you should also know that Grant gave me a bit of a lecture tonight. It went a little something like this as we were in his bed telling scripture stories.