Easter is always a wonderful holiday! It is all about celebrating the resurrection of Jesus Christ and the promise that life doesn’t end when we die. I really tried to teach Hallie about the resurrection this year. (I don’t have anything against the easter bunny but we opted to not mention anything about it to Hallie.) When we asked her what Easter was about she would tell us that bad guys killed Jesus and then 3 days later he came back to life. Ben also took the time to teach her a lesson about our bodies and our spirits using a glove and hand.

The Easter festivities included a pre-easter party at my friend Corina’s house, a naked easter egg hunt on Easter morning (only Hallie was naked btw), a wonderful church meeting-besides me wrestling both kids during sacrament meeting (ben was on the stand being the choir narrator) and Hallie yelling at me, “Let go of me, don’t touch me!” so the whole congregation could hear. And it ended with a wonderful meal. (The sure way to please Ben!)

FYI: Potty Training has introduced Hallie to the world of being naked. She would run around naked all day if I let her…so sometimes I do. 🙂

This past week we had amazing weather. We took walks to the park every morning, played outside for hours, and wore sunscreen and short sleeves. It was heaven! One day we even went swimming at my friend Lindsey’s house. I love warm weather; it makes me and my kids happy.

I can’t seem to get enough hugs and squeezes from this chubby boy. Gosh I just love him!

Wonderful Nanna bought Hallie some rain boots and a rain jacket. Here she is living her 2 year old life to the fullest!

My favorite part was when she laid on the ground and started singing a song from the movie “Tangled”. It went something like “the grass, the dirt, just like I dreamed they’d be”  lol She was really into it! I got it on video but need to post it. It is hilarious!!!

Our Church suggests putting one night a week aside for a “family night”.  Every Monday evening we play games and have a lesson about Jesus Christ and His teachings. It’s pretty awesome!

Reading about Jesus. Oh how I love those three!

use every last bit of my lipstick! I was feeding Kyle and noticed that Hallie was being very quiet, which unfortunately is a bad sign. I found her like this…

Not quite sure if that’s her shade. 🙂 Oh well it made her feel grown up. Heaven help me when she is a teenager.

(I should probably mention it was first thing in the morning hence the hair and the jammies.)

My friend Kami and I started a new business. Go check it out Ladylove.

Can it be true my baby boy is 9 months old!? He is such a charmer! A clingy, stuck on the hip type of charmer, but a charmer none the less. I think the title “mama’s boy” might be an understatement in his case. He still prefers the army crawl to regular crawling although he does know how to. He recently discovered pulling himself up and loves the world that opens up to him.  He now sleeps through the night and he has one tooth on the bottom. We love our little guy and his big smiles.

I love the sequence of these next 3 pictures.

Well…………… at least the cars.

What?! Don’t you spring clean in your underwear? Maybe it’s just a Crane tradition! 🙂

Hallie has the cutest friend who compliments her so well. Olivia likes to sit down and read books; Hallie likes to jump off the couch. So you see they balance each other out perfectly. We love when Olivia and her mom come to play. Here are the girls doing a science experiment with cornstarch and water.