Bonjour Paris!

What a month it's been! We've been so busy with Eric taking his boards, trying to sell our condo, trying to find a place to live in Florida, and planning a trip. I haven't had the time to blog.

We got back in town yesterday after spending a good 38 hours traveling home (at least).
I have been doing laundry for 2 days straight. As I am waiting on another load to dry, I thought it would be a good time to post some pictures of our trip.

Eric and I took a little trip to Paris last week. Leaving our little guy with Grandma in Utah. I was a little worried that he would be okay, but I took him down a few days early to acclimate him to the new surroundings. By the time I left, I was pretty sure he wouldn't notice if I was around. My mom had so many fun things planned for him he didn't have time to notice if I was around. She did a great job and I'm sure she needs a vacation herself now.

Here we are on the Champs Elysee in front of the Arch d'triumph.

I was a little hesitant to stand in the middle of the street to take pictures. Luckily we didn't get hit. After we crossed the street, we walked over to a bench to rest. A few minutes later we heard a huge thump and Eric saw a lady flying through the air with her feet above her head. She had been hit by a car. Eric ran out to her in the middle of the street. She was amazingly still conscious and talking with only a very broken finger and a huge bruise on her head. Eric checked her out and when the police arrived they told him he could go. It was the craziest thing!

I must say that I am always filled with pride when I see Eric go into doctor mode. I don't see that side of him very often at home and I love that he is cool in a crisis and knows exactly what to do to help. I always feel safe when he's around. I'm so proud of him! (okay cheesiness over)

After that fiasco, we walked over to Angelina's for some hot chocolate. It is supposed to be one of the finest cups of hot chocolate in Paris. It was like drinking a candy bar. Delicious! Eric makes a better one though. :) **And thanks to Andrea for teaching me how to order water in a restaurant without getting an 8 dollar Evian bottle**

Paris is full of amazing buildings everywhere you turn. -Hotel De Ville Notre DameVersailles-- Hall of Mirrors
Versailles has acres of gardens that we walked through. Here is one of the fountains.

We saw some great art at the Pompidou Center like Jackson Pollock and Kandinsky

And some not so great art... I think this one is called three white squares.

We went to a ballet at the Paris Opera House. It was beautiful.

A fuzzy picture, but it was such an amazing room

At the Louvre

They don't know who carved this center statue but they think it must have been a kindergarten teacher. :)
Eric's best Easter Island impression

Rodin Museum

As you can see Eric was very into posing like the artwork. He really wanted to do "the Kiss" too, but unfortunately we didn't know the French for "will you take a picture of us while we make out like this statue" otherwise I totally would have done it....

We loved the Metro. Especially when our feet hurt from all the walking. Here we are about to get on our last train ride to the airport. Doesn't Eric look sad to be leaving?

When we saw Ethan after being gone for a week, he wasn't mad at us or super excited either, he just had this sweet content smile plastered on his face the entire day. It was quite heart warming.
We are glad to be home, Thank you Eric for taking me to Paris. I guess this means the next trip is Tibet.

I turn my head for two seconds

Ethan has become a very quick climber. Every time I turn around, I find him

getting into something new. I was impressed that he got this tower so high. And very thankful that he didn't think to open the spices... that could have been a disasterous (not to mention expensive) mess.

Rapper Snoop Dogg converts to Mormonism

Is Snoop getting his BOM on?











Click here to read at CNN



The link doesn’t work sometimes but if you keep trying it should eventually put you through to the article.

This is just an April fool’s joke, but the article is pretty funny. I am not sure but the article might be belittling towards Mormonism as well, unless it was written by a Mormon.

Oh Walmart....

I was searching for a cake picture on Google Images the other day and I came across this cake. I stared at it for a long time trying to figure out what it said. I clicked on the link to see it bigger, and I still couldn't figure out what it meant. Until I read the caption:

Some people that work here had a going away party the other day for a woman
that is leaving.
One of the supervisors called a Walmart and ordered the cake. He told them to write: “best wishes Suzanne” and underneath that write “we
will miss you”.

Easter baskets are inherently girly

We had an egg filled month this March. I have plastic eggs coming out of my ears. Ethan loves to find small things to hide in them, like raisins and coins he finds in my wallet. I'm surprised how good he is at closing the plastic eggs. He's very persistent.

Anyway, here are some pictures from our play group egg hunt. We had a huge turn out (we missed you beckee) and there were tons of eggs to find with lots of yummy candy for me... I mean Ethan... to eat.

After 3 egg hunts, Ethan has developed a new found love for jelly beans. That one molar he has really helps I guess.

After picking up egg after egg after egg, Ethan figured out a much more efficient way to gather them. He finished early and was able to check out the buffet table and make a phone call while everyone else finished up:

Heading off to church. (While Eric headed off to bed... only one more week of nights!)

Class Clown

I've been feeling the pressure from family members to put up more videos, so here they are. They're not great in quality, but I think the subject matter is pretty cute nonetheless.

The other day Ethan started running back and forth across the room, just giggling like crazy. When he saw how much it was making Eric and I laugh, he kept doing it. He ran back and forth for probably 10 minutes before we got the camera out. You can see he's getting tired. The whole thing ended abruptly when he dizzily ran smack into the wall at full speed. Unfortunately we didn't get that moment on tape. He hasn't really mastered the whole "watch where you're going" aspect of running.

Every kid has meals like this, but Ethan doesn't do it very often. I think it's because he has his shirt off this time that he decided to go town. He loves to rub things on his tummy e.g. lotion, diaper rash cream, mommy's face cream and evidently baby food.

Sorry it's so dark, we had a lightbulb out....

or should I say "STILL HAVE a light bulb out"... aHem... Eric.