Henry

This is probably my favorite photo that I took:

This one looks like it deserves a good caption...anyone?

baby photos!

The baby has a name and his name is Henry Mahonri Perazzo! (Henry is a name they both liked and Mahonri--pronounced ma-hän'rī --is a name from the Book of Mormon). He sleeps a lot and is a contented baby from what I hear. I'll get to see for myself this week as I'm taking a day off of work and heading to Utah.

the happy family

 

I just love this photo! The hair and those adorable cheeks!

And Ryan will be home in 11 days!

And there's only 6 more weeks left of school!

And life is good.

Like father, like son

Like Father, Like Son

baby boy Perazzo 12 April 2015

baby boy Perazzo 12 April 2015

Andrew as a baby

This morning at 11:51 Utah time, one week overdue just like Andrew had been, my first grandchild was born healthy and weighing in at 9 lb 5 oz (Andrew was 10 lbs 4 oz, so once again, like father, like son).

No name yet so it kind of doesn't seem real. Congratulations Andrew and Heather! The text announcing his arrival ("born!") arrived just after church started today, so I apologize if anyone saw me texting during the meeting, but I had to pass along the good news. :)

Here we are on the day we became grandparents, aunt, and uncles (uncropped as I am on the wrong computer for photo editing)
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Since there isn't much more to say about that all-important topic at the moment, let me recap our Spring Break.


Trip to Vegas

Hannah and I traveled down to Vegas for a few days to visit my sister and a friend of ours that we've known since I was 9 who was there visiting from Massachusetts with her daughter. We had a wonderful time sight seeing on the Strip--the M&M store, the flower garden at the Bellagio, and the shops at Caesar's Palace. We watched movies, shopped at the mall, and went looking at model homes, which was a ton of fun.

Denise, Martha, and Beth

24 hour Game Marathon

Eric and Alex got up at midnight Friday morning and started their game marathon. In the morning they were joined by cousins. Mice and Mystics, Eldritch Horror, and King of Tokyo were the new games that were ordered just for Friday and no other games were played. Cousins came over during the day for a few games.

Alex says that Mice and Mystics and Eldritch Horror are both co-operative games, meaning you work together to beat the game and not each other. They won every time they played Eldritch Horror, however they lost just as often as they won while playing Mice and Mystics. Alex won when they played King of Tokyo.

They were exhausted by midnight, but they had a great time.

Ryan

will be home in less than 3 weeks! To remind you, his plane lands in Reno on the 30th at 3:40 pm. Come and join us.
 

Conference, Easter, spring break plans, and Ryan's coming home!

Well, General Conference is half over. It was AMAZING today. So many great analogies and stories. I can't wait till tomorrow.

Conference is going well, but the words we have chosen to listen for (familysearch, doctrine, state, desert, labor, birth, genealogy, seminary, and remember) really aren't been mentioned as much as our words in the past. And due to our family's no-treat challenge, we are not eating skittles, but have decided to use money. The boys are planning on using the money to buy a new game. More on that later.

Our no-treat challenge has also messed up our Conference tradition of eating a cream cheese almond coffee cake on the mornings of conference. The recipe has a lot of sugar in it. Today we opted instead for a new recipe that I'm sure I'll be making again. I thought it was excellent with less than 1 tsp of added sugar per muffin. It's applesauce oat muffins from Mel's Kitchen Cafe. Here's the link:  http://www.melskitchencafe.com/healthy-oats-and-applesauce-muffins/


And tomorrow is Easter. No chocolate bunnies or jelly beans or peeps this year. But that's okay because that's not really what Easter is about. We will spend it by watching Conference in the morning, enjoying a ham dinner after that, and then Hannah and I are taking off for Vegas to visit my sister and a friend who is visiting her from back east. Can't wait!

And, in case you didn't know, Saturday the 11th is International TableTop Day which is a 24 hour game marathon...only Alex will be at the temple Saturday morning helping to clean, so he and Eric are planning on having their marathon from midnight to midnight on Friday. I need my sleep so I won't be participating in the middle of the night, but I'm sure I'll be joining them during the day. I love that my boys have such a great time together.

And today, we got the travel plans for Ryan!!! He arrives at the Reno airport on Thursday April 30th at 3:40 pm. Can't wait to see that boy...and it's so hard to believe that he's been gone 2 years.

And...next week I should have something to report in the grandbaby department...