Dear Husband...(Day 2)

Dear Husband,

Another day without you. We still missed you all day long. We started out the day early (way too early, if you ask me.) The kids both came to sleep in our bed in the night. I guess they are thrown off by you being gone. I didn't mind.

Here are some of the things that happened in your absence:

Our tree turned it's bare branches into this suddenly:

Then, in preparation for watching Conference, I went with the following array of food this year. You would have liked it. And I know you don't care for it, but egg salad is much better on little rounds of bread. Yum...

After that, I took the kids to a very fancy Crazy Cafe for dinner (which was conveniently located on our deck).

They were able to select what they wanted for the appetizer, main course and dessert--all served separately. The selections were things like: monkeys, zebras, elephants, skunks. And the crazy part was that those things turned out to be things like: spoons, forks, drinks, main meal, and dessert. Is this making sense?

Here was the first course:

Annika got a drink and a fork. Ezra got food, but no utensils.

Here was the main course:

And dessert:

There was even an appearance by SpongeBob the bubble bath. It was wacky.

So, that was pretty much our day. We also made some Easter cookies which I'll tell you about another time. It was fun, but needless to say, it would have been a lot more fun with you. Come home soon!

Love, 

Wife

Dear Husband...

I do not like it when you go to conferences in far away places like San Francisco without us--especially on Easter weekends with beautiful, perfect, sunny 80 degree weather.

I really could have used you today when I was trying to get  Ezra's splinter out and he kept sobbing about how he wanted Dad to do it because "Dad is more gentler!"

You also missed the hilarity of when I put a sleeveless shirt on Ezra and how he ran around so excited exclaiming "You can see my armpits!"

There were a plethora of suggestions from the children of things that we should send you. Among these were the Easter eggs we dyed:

The flowers we picked in the yard:

And many, many drawings done by Ezra.

We did enjoy the beautiful day as best we could with walks outside, a trip to retrieve our lost kite and some special but messy popsicle treats.

One thing you might not be too excited about is our new acquisition:

I hope you get back soon! You are missed.

Love,

Wife