Vacation and Corn Starch

Conner and I were lucky enough to go visit my sister and her family last week in Carterville Illinois. She moved there last summer for her husband to attend law school. We had a lot of fun hanging out with Lindsey and the kids, and Bryan when he wasnt hard at work in the library. We mostly hung out, ate junk food, talked, watched movies and did some projects. Conner loved having some other kids to play with instead of just mom and dad! My sister will be so embarassed for me saying this, but I loved being able to see even more how awesome she is. She is always so busy, she is a mother to 2 young kids, 6 months pregnant, has her own small business in which she is constantly sewing, beading, mailing, etc., making meals, and has the cleanest most organized house I have ever seen in my life. I find it so hard to keep my house clean all the time, everytime I clean Conner follows me around the house unfolding laundry, getting toys back out, unfolding blankets, throwing food on the ground, and more. I've always wondered how she kept her house so clean while having young kids. She cleans all day, and its so funny because her kids have picked up on her habits which is great! Hopefully some of it rubbed off on Conner! One day I was doing Katelyn's hair in the bathroom and this is what our conversation was:

Katelyn: "Does Conner clean up the bath toys when he's done with them?"
Britt: "Why?"
Katelyn-"Because me and my mom really like the bath toys picked up and they are all over the tub, so will you have him clean them up next time?"

She is so cute, she said a lot of those kind of things while we were there. Thanks Linds for letting us come, we had a lot of fun and we miss you guys already!


This kept Conner busy on the plane ride.

We put Conner in one of Katelyn's tutu's, he looked cute!

He loves pushing things and was pushing Katelyn's strollers all over the entire week.

Since Conference is on Easter Sunday we dressed the kids up this last sunday, they all looked so cute!

Katelyn, of course Linds made this dress(and her little purse), its really cute. I think she is putting it up on her website. She has a lot of cute new skirts and shrugs to match. Check it out.

Katelyns new haircut, she looks so much older!

Lindsey's cute kids, Katelyn and Cody.

All of the kids. It was so hard to get Conner to sit still with them. Notice the cell phone..

Doesnt he look cute with a comb-over?

My mom sent stuff for us to do an easter egg hunt for the kids, Conner loved shoving candy in his mouth, even with the wrapper on!

We had a lot of fun, thanks guys!!!!!!

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Yesterday I was writing a grocery list and I noticed that it was way too quiet, so I looked around to see what Conner was doing. He had pulled everything off my 2 bottom shelves and was having fun playing in the corn starch. He kept putting his hand in pulling some out and then slapping his hands together to see the powder fly in the air. He is a hand full!

What?

Clapping

NAUGHTY! Notice, the cell phone once again....