Should I be proud of her or embarrassed for me?

While swimming with our girls, I was coaxing Gracey to dive deeper and deeper into the water to get the dive toys. I wanted her to get the toy from a certain deep part that I knew she could do but was a littler nervous about. It was about 5 feet deep. After asking her if she wanted to do it, she said,

"No, no, no! That's too deep!"

My response, "Please? You can do it!"

Gracey says, "Will you give me $50 bucks?"

I start laughing and say that I will give her $.50.

She says, "Okay!" and dives right down and grabs it!

Her and I celebrate this small victory while I am still laughing about her wanting to do it for $50.

Corky swims over to us and I tell him the story. Just as I am telling him, I realize that I just got highballed and tricked by a 5 year old. We were laughing so hard!! $.50 to a 5 year old is gold mine and I totally gave in because she first suggested $50!!!!

She is good. She is very, very good!

In short, the rest of the Easter weekend.

The rest of the weekend consisted of just hanging out.

• There was some easter egg coloring
• Late-night swimming
• Drakey-poo smooching
• sleep deprived children
• and Easter-Basket getting!

Gracey and Emily, the Dog Whisperers!

My step-dad has a new dog. She's a German Shepherd dog, she is (said in my best "Hank" impression for my family) named Zeba. She has been trained really well and is not even a year old yet. Of course, the only reason she will ever listen to me is because my step-dad repeats my command. I am definitely not an alpha in that relationship. Gracey and Emily are another story. Zeba minds them so well. Here is some proof. These pictures only show a portion of it all. By the end of this exercise (or torture for the pup) Zeba had crackers on both paws, her back, all up her nose, and behind her ears. She just stared longingly at Gracey and Emily, waiting for the command of "okay!"

St. George Easter Egg Hunt

Anytime we spend Easter in St. George, we most certainly attend this. It is 30 minutes of waiting around at your designated area. Then a 10 second count-down on a mega-phone. Then it is parents pushing their kids out into the hunt when the count-down gets to about 4! Then it is cheering your child on and encouraging her to pick up as much candy on her own while the parent next to you is loading up candy and dropping it into her own child's bucket. I assure you, it is awesome!!

Did that sound like a complaint?? My bad. We really do love, it is just comical to see some of the parents do the job of a 3 year old, among other 3 year olds. I want to say to those parents, "Go buy a freaking bag of candy at Wal-Mart!!!"

My girls think the egg hunt is the bomb and I truly do enjoy watching them (do it on their own!)! It is a fun tradition that we have done the last couple of Easter Holidays!

Here are some pictures of Emily from the beginning, when Grandma Joyce was giving her instructions, to when she was showing off all her fun stuff!


And here is Gracey! She was a pro!


And if you don't believe me about the parents, look closely at this photo. I wish I would have taken a closer picture, this lady was literally dragging her kid around!


After the Egg Hunt, we went over and held some cute baby chicks. Gracey was all about holding them, Emily only want to barely touch the head as long as I was holding it. They were cute....and so were the baby chicks. Glad they weren't mind though!

Check out the intensity in Em's face!