Thanksgiving 2012...

In the weeks leading up to Thanksgiving both my family and his had asked Rusty to make a turkey in his Big Green Egg, and I floated the idea of cutting the workload in half and having both the Rasmussen and Beck clans eat all together this year.  It worked well for us and I hope we can do it again in the future!

 The kids play while the adults converse.

 Nolan keeping Brenner entertained...

 And Gabrielle took Boston for a while.

 He enjoyed his First Thanksgiving where he could eat the food!

 The Kids Table- Talia, Yazee, Jaci, Berk and Brenner.

 Mubeen, Rusty, Jared, Kelcie and Jill

 Mom Rasmussen, Chelli and Gabrielle

 Troy, Jess, Cole, Tempest and Nolan

 The inside sitters- Ryan and Cathy, Cindi, Russ, Me and Boston (not pictured).

 Spencer, Braden, Dad Rasmussen and photo bombing Nolan.

 The kids enjoyed the beautiful weather while waiting to eat dessert.

 Could Braden's eyes BE any prettier??

 Yaz & Jaci

 Nana and Boston

 Our happy little Thanksgiving family

This picture absolutely cracked me up. Berk posing with his girlie girl cousins.

Easter was Here!!!

Here are some pictures of the stuff I put out for spring and Easter.

Each year everyone in the family gets an egg. They all have their number and year on them. It's fun to see how many we have accumulated. Some of my favorites are ones Rusty has from when he was a baby.

And on to the Easter celebration.

First we had an egg hunt with our ward. It was super fun.  They had about 2,000 eggs for the kids to find.   I was pretty proud that my muffins, Banana Peanut Butter Chocolate Chip,  were the first ones gone.  (I had even saved a dozen for home, and within minutes of getting back Brenner ate THEM ALL!) The kids had fun and there were a ton of people from the neighborhood. It was a great turnout.

The rest of the day way pretty relaxing. No games or errands really to run. We did some yard work and then the two oldest boys decided they wanted to swim.  It is still pretty cold but they had a blast.

We decorated a few eggs at the Becks that afternoon too.

Easter Baskets Sunday morning.

All dressed up in our Easter clothes.

Boston's first Easter! Don't worry, we did put shoes on him at church. After we went to the Becks house for dinner. Rusty made lamb on his Big Green Egg. It smelled really good, and everyone said it tasted amazing. I am a bad wife and didn't even try it.

This was my attempt at getting a cutesy picture of Boston during the egg hunt.  He was so curious about the grass I couldn't get him to look up!

 Egg Hunt!

 Checking out the goods.

Then we went over to my parents house to see everyone there.  Boss thought it was hilarious to pull at Nana's necklace. And then he found his way over to the famous wooden bowl of fruit.  I swear each child and grandchild has played with them.  He crawled nearly all the way under the table, hit his head and decided it wasn't so fun after all.

 (The bandaid on my mom's cheek is from a biopsy they took a day or so before. She wen track in this week and it was a basil cell carcinoma, so they took a bigger area out and hopefully got it all!)

 My child has paws, what can I say?

Ok, fun is over, time to rescue