Birthdays and Easter

I just uploaded pictures from March and April. I forgot we took some from my birthday. And who would want to forget our monkey faces from my birthday? Not me :)

I am so blessed with the three most darling kids! And the very best husband! His monkey cake still makes me laugh when I see it!

Not sure what faces we are trying to make here but the kids' faces make me smile!

Our sweet Elsie saying "ooo, ooo, ahhh, ahh."
(Her monkey sound)
We had a fun day at the park after one of my prenatal visits.

Nana and Papa came for a quick visit for Gloria's baptism. Here is Nana multi-tasking. Icing here knees while reading a book to the girls. We love visitors!

Random photo: Elsie got into my mascara. She was not as mad as she looks in this picture ;).Shelley is quite good at dribbling! She is becoming quite a little athlete.

As for the belly, it just keeps growing!
This was taken during General Conference on Saturday. I was laying on the couch watching and my little ShelleyBean found a way to squeeze in behind me. She is so cuddly!
Pre-Conference snuggles and play time.
Some very big news for April:

ELSIE turned TWO!

Elsie is such a joy in our family! Everyone loves hugs and kisses from her. She is learning and growing so much lately and absolutely adores her big brother and big sister. She loves to play with babies and is going to be a great big sister! She loves to eat and she loves to talk. She tries to do everything her siblings do.
We love our Elsie Kay more than words could ever express!

We have a tradition in our family where I make this certain monkey cake for every child's second birthday. Each of our kids has LOVED monkeys at this age so it has worked out well. We love bring back the monkey cake!

Els loved her monkey cake!

Elsie got a mini monkey pillow pet that she just adores!

And she loved her new little baby.

We had a picnic dinner at the park and she had a fun day. She really knew it was her special day and just loved saying, "Elsie's Birthday!" all day long.

Here we are at Justin's work. He had to stop by for a few minutes so we walked around...
And climbed...

and swung...
and looked at the mustangs.
This girl is getting so big! And so astute!We love you, Elsie!

Easter was wonderful!
Some friends hosted an egg hunt and the kids had so much fun.
I am very large with child, 40 weeks pregnant.
Easter morn.

Handsome Thomas J!

Beautiful Shelley Eliah!

And Cutey Elsie!

Elsie was super camera happy!

I cannot help but smooch on this girl all day long!

Happy Easter!

We love our three chilibeans! Baby number four is due TODAY! We cannot wait to meet him and the children are more than anxious to hold and play with their new little brother! Hopefully, next post will be a baby post :).