Pizza, Butterflies and Easter eggs

WOW! I can't believe it's been a week since I last posted. Please forgive me. Here is my update. We had an awesome Birthday/Easter weekend. We partied hard!
Friday evening we enjoyed a family night at Chuck-E-Cheese. Can I just say, "thank you!" to whoever owns the Orem Chuck-E-Cheese? While I am not a big fan of Chuck-E-Cheese, I am very grateful that they have cleaned up the Orem location so I don't feel like my kids are playing in germ-infested, dirty nastiness. The kids love it - Mahlia loves it so long as the mouse, is his name Chuck-E? humm.. I don't know what his name is now that I think of it... anyway, as long as the mouse doesn't come near her... she's happy.
Saturday morning we made Mahlia's birthday cupcakes - butterflies! Way fun. I'm a big fan of making my kids b-day cakes. While they might not be the most beautiful cakes ever, I hope they know that it's special just for them. (this is a good post idea... maybe in the future i will post some of my favorites of the kids cakes! stay tuned!)
Saturday afternoon we had a great time at my parents having lunch, Easter Egg hunt and b-day presents. We love our family get togethers, especially in the warmer months when the kids get to play outside. side note: Joseph even got his cousins involved in the "digging the hole to china" project! Saturday night John and I got to take Jackson and go have a relaxing dinner together. Big THANK YOU to cute Madeline from our primary class, who watched Joseph and Mahlia for us. Madeline, we love you!!! It was definitely one of those times where that date was soooo needed and I just needed the peace and quiet and time with John.
Sunday after church John's family came over to our house and we enjoyed lunch, Easter Egg hunt and B-Day cake. We missed Chris and Celeste who were just coming back from their cruise (jealous!). But a great time was had by all. Pictures to come.... Ü Mahlia loves her presents - she sleeps with her care bear (thanks uncle Wade) and her new bunny (bamma and bampa) every night, Dora (thanks Joseph) has become her new best friend. Lots of cute new outfits and I can't wait to post pictures of Mahlia in her new Princess dress ups! (thanks Kim!)