I really enjoyed this talk from Elder M. Russell Ballard for young mothers. Here's his TALK from General Conference.

I love this warm weather. Yesterday it was 72 and today is going to be even warmer. I had to take a picture of Ashton in this shirt that Melanie and Matt gave him. I love the western shirts. So I'm officially the YW's president. We have 5 girls so it's just a small group which will be nice with girls camp coming up in June.

Customize Your Blog

To customize your blog here's the easiest way I've found. These instructions (along with other templates) are from matiekay.blogspot.com. Just follow these instructions for a 3 column blog. It's really fast and easy. Then after you've done this when you view your layout in the html you can find the 4 url picture links (background, post background, and 2 header backgrounds) and change them to whatever you want. (I upload what I want to photobucket and use the Direct link) The best website for paper/embellishments for me is shabbyprincess.com and they have a bunch of kits to download for free.

*Remember you can change the font colors to your liking by clicking template then click the tab font and colors.
* Also I added a bunch of page elements hoping to cover every ones wide range of sidebar elements. You might notice when you sign in blogger and click on dashboard that there is a lot of elements. You can edit or delete those if you want (at least the ones you aren't using:) Sorry for the inconvenience it may cause some of you but hopefully it will help. One more thing it will most likely rearrange the way you had your elements so just rearrange them and you'll be good to go.

STEP BY STEP INSTRUCTIONS TO APPLY LAYOUT:

Log into your blogger account and go to your dashboard.
Click on Layout in the right hand corner of the blog which you want to apply the template.
Go to Pick New Template
Choose Minima
Click Save Template
Go to Edit HTML
Delete all of the HTML
Go to: http://docs.google.com/Doc?id=dk8xhn3_62d7qrkq
Copy all of the HTML (don't copy the small blue text at the bottom under the line)
Paste the HTML
Click Save Template
That's it!

To do the custom header it gets a little more complicated but not much. I just use Roxio (a photo editing software) but you can also use Adobephotoshop. I create a "picture" using all of the papers, photos, embellishments and then add that picture to the top of my blog, not as a header but as a picture.

Bath Time and 2 Month Appointment

Ashton loves taking a bath. Today Matt took him to his 2 month appointment and he has gone from weighing 6lbs. 8oz. at his 1 month appointment to 12lbs. 4oz. today. So he's not under the 5th percentile anymore he's right at the 50th percentile. Although Ashton only weighs 1/3 of what Kaleb does he looks really big when sitting on his lap.

Easter and Ashton's Blessing

The day started with Kaleb hunting for easter eggs. Not much of a challenge in our small apartment but he had a lot of fun. He calls it the Bunny Easter.

Ashton was also blessed on Easter. Between Ashton's blessing, all of our family and friends that were there and all of the musical numbers I really enjoyed Sacrament meeting. And it was a beautiful sunny day on top of that. (as you can see by all of us squinting)

Then off to Sunday dinner. I made orange rolls for dessert and we had tons of yummy food. There were about 200 plastic candy-filled eggs (no joke) for everyone to find. Kaleb found most of them because there aren't any other little kids. He didn't mind, more candy for him.

This was the basket that held all 200 of the eggs. I think Ashton looks better in it than the eggs did though.

He's always so content after eating. And I love his old man wrinkles.