Happy Easter!

Sorry this blog is a little late. I have just honestly not been in the blogging mood lately! But I'm glad the rest of you have... I've been having fun reading everybody else's blogs.

Our Easter this year was fun! We started out on Saturday night coloring Easter eggs. Gavin was really excited about this, and was asking about it all day. I figured Ty would want to get in on the action too, but had no idea just how hard it would be to keep him away! He was trying to squirm out of my arms and when I wouldn't let him down, he just cried and cried... poor kid! Sadly though, the colored eggs are all still sitting in our fridge... :)


On Easter morning, we had our annual Easter egg hunt. Now bear with me as you see these pictures... Gavin slept in his diaper and shirt from the day before, and Tyler woke up with wet pajamas so that's why they are not dressed! If you think we're white trash now, just wait until you hear my tooth story later in this blog! :) Anyway, the boys had a great time finding all the eggs. We just did it in our house because frankly, the Easter Bunny did not want to hide eggs outside at 10:00 at night! I always knew Gavin would love the Easter egg hunt, but it definitely surprised me to see Ty get so excited about it! He got more eggs than Gavin! The only letdown to the morning was that according to Gavin, the Easter Bunny brought him the wrong dinosaur (even though he never specified what kind of dinosaur he wanted). But it's okay, because he "loves him anyway." Ha ha!


We then got the boys dressed in their cute Easter outfits. I tried to get pictures of them but was extremely unsuccessful, so hopefully you can see them from the other pictures. That afternoon, Gavin and I went to church while Greg stayed home with Tyler (he has been really sick with a horrible cough the past few days), and after that, we headed off to Mike and Lindsay's for a fabulous Easter dinner (go Mike!). While we were there, my parents did a little Easter egg hunt for the boys, which once again they loved. But of course, with all the craziness, I didn't get many pictures, so sorry about that.


Overall though, we had a great Easter! Holidays are so much more fun when you have kids and get to see their excitement over the littlest things!


In other news, I am officially missing a tooth. Yes, I know... I am TOTALLY white trash (or at least that's how I feel). Fortunately, it's in the back of my mouth so you can't see it when I smile, but I feel like such a joke. Here's what happened... Remember my tooth that cracked? Well, when I went into the dentist, he recommended that we do a procedure called "crown lengthening" where a periodontist basically goes up into your gums and builds up the root, making it really strong so it can handle a crown. Well, I went into the dentist last Thursday to have this done, and they put me under IV sedation before I even met the periodontist. The next thing I know, I wake up an hour later to Greg telling me they just had to extract the tooth. I guess when the periodontist got in there, he realized that the crack was so deep that the tooth was really beyond repair. If they did do the crown lengthening, it would probably just break in a year or two and I would have to go through the whole process again. So they asked Greg to make the call (since I was out), and I am now officially toothless! Lovely... Fortunately, my dentist offered to do a bridge with the two teeth around it and just fill in the gap with a crown for the same price it would cost to just repair that one tooth. Still, I feel totally white trash and am not thrilled about forking over $2,000 for this bridge. Stupid teeth!


Well, we hope you all had a wonderful Easter too. I posted more pictures of our day at the bottom. And hopefully my love for blogging will come back soon, but in the meantime, bear with me! :) -Ash

Gavin dipping (or should I say dropping) an egg!

Tyler trying to get out of my arms and to the eggs (this is before he started crying).

Mmmm... Candy!

He did have an Easter basket, somewhere...

Ty happy as usual, even when he is sick as a dog!