hippity hop

well, here is a little easter update from the beautiful city of portland and from us tolmans :) sorry about all of the collages, but there were just too many cute pictures to do them all individually. you'll just have to click on them to make them bigger or scroll by them if they get annoying!

firstly, april 6th is our favorite nephew's birthday, and aj turned 2 this year! he had lots of fun opening presents, and he loved watching everyone singing happy birthday to him, and he couldn't help but blow out the candles before the song was over he was so excited :) i love this little kid so much, and he is sooo much fun, and it was really fun to be part of his little party.

 

we watched aj while lace and aaron and mona and darren braved the mall on a friday night, and we thought he would enjoy helping with beckam's bath. he's such a helpful cousin, and he just loves beckam - so much in fact that helping wasn't enough! he said "lynz...aj shirt off" so...the boys had their 1st bath together - so cute and so fun! i'm sure there will be many more to follow :) the only hard part is keeping their little guys out of the pics! lol

 

since moving to portland, we have heard a lot about this famous donut shop called voodoo donunts, so since kait was visiting and the train station is downtown where the donut shop is, we decided to stop by. it wasn't hard to notice it cuz there was a line of 15 or so people outside - i guess it really is famous! it was chilly, but we weren't about to leave after finding a good parking spot, so we waited. i fed beckam in the stroller, and we tried to peer in the windows to see what all the talk was about. eventually, we made it inside, and i still don't really know what all the talk was about! i mean, my apple fritter was ok, and there were some odd shaped donuts and some different kinds but ya...i guess you have to be a donut lover extrordinaire to truly appreciate that voodoo experience!

 

mona and darren made the long trek down to visit for the long easter weekend, and they stayed at a hotel near by, so we got to use the pool there and had fun swimming with the boys. the pool was freakin cold though, so we spent the majority of the time in the hot tub. beckam still loves the water, and as you can see, the hotel may need to think about a towel upgrade - they were teensy tiny, especially for lace who's growing a baby!

 

here is becks with his loot from the edmonton easter bunny :) grandpa and grandma tolman along with aunt alaina sent some cute clothes and cards for our little guy, and we can't wait to see him all dressed up in his easter goods. thanks so much guys!

 

we loved having mona and darren and their little dog gus here for the weekend! we miss our families tons, and it's always good to have them come and visit and be part of our little lives down here. we had fun going shopping and out to dinner and swimming with them, and they just loved spending time with their cute little grandsons. they love their grandpa and grandma peterson, and take note of the cute little frog towel that they got for becks - so cute!

 

lastly, here are the easter goods from grandpa and grandma hill for the little guy. it took us a while to get some pics, but here he is with his little guy and micro mini eggs - he loved them! as you can see, he's getting better at sitting up by himself, but there are 3 hands there to catch him if he does start to teeter :)

 

easter was really fun. we had a yummy dinner and lots of family time, and mom sent some easter treats from home with kait, so that made it complete for me :) thanks mom, and happy easter to all of you :) hope you had a good one!