Get Off Your Keester, and Have a Great Easter!!

  love easter time! I love coloring eggs, I love hunting for eggs, and I love eating the eggs :) We had a great time, and spent Easter saturday with my family. We ate a GORGEOUS steak dinner, with fruit of all kinds, potatoes, and even a red velvet cake as dessert. Our Easter egg hunt was also really a good time. We wished there were more little kids around, since Maddox was easily distracted and didn't quite understand the idea of finding eggs to keep in his little froggy backpack, but he was sure cute anyways. And the adults had a good time once mom and dad hid the money eggs! Each year they hide only 4, each egg has a different amount of money in it. Ones, fives, even a ten. They are hidden very well, and it's a fight to the finish to see who can win! I have the keen eye for these things, and thus I found one of the 4 money eggs!! Bummer it was only the One dollar one....but still. A find is a find. Here's some pictures from the big hunt!

My siblings all doing their thing, crazy on the search... 

Dani is giving me the stink eye..trying to wean the competition...that didn't work.. 

 My stinkin' cute nephew Maddox loving our reaction when he cracked open the jelly bean eggs and the contents were dumped all over the lawn. 

 My good looking husband bein' a man with his easter basket :)

Me and baby Carter (Who was secretly giving me all of the tips on where to find the keepers. He's brilliant.

So our Easter was a big success. And just for the fun of it, here is where i got the inspiration for my blog title. I sent this to Nate and all I heard for the month of April was "Get off your keester and have a great Easter!!"

This is a Hoops and YoYo e-card that Nate and I thoroughly enjoyed. Clicl on the link, then choose "Get off your keester". There's not enough time for all the joy!!

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A Fantastic Fruity Fiasco!

Does this look like sweet bliss all stuffed into a darling little mug? It is. How I know? Well, yesterday being my big 21st birthday, my adoring husband was FAR too good to me!! Being 21, LDS, and pregnant..well that rules out any alcoholic purchases, so what is so good about turning 21 anyways then? The picture above is good enough reason for me. I CRAVE fruit! All fruit! Any fruit! Fruit juice, fruit popcicles, fruity treats, fruit anything. I recently bought a pineapple at the store, which I consumed entirely by myself. I would be really embarrassed about that but I am keen enough to know that pineapple is rich in Vitamin A and C, and is good for the digestive system. (So baby Carter Newman loves it too). I am lovin the strawberries, the raspberries, the berries I never liked before (blueberries) and I am certain that I could eat myself to death with just fruit fruit and more fruit.

So Nate being considerate of my uncontrollable crazy prego craving saw me browsing online at these darling fruit boquets a couple of months ago. I mentioned how glorious they looked, and the fact that some are dipped in a delicious chocolate was a beautiful touch. Well, yesterday on my birthday, who should stroll into my work with not a boquet of flowers but a boquet of heaven sent fruit? Yes, my sweetheart, the world's best husband. The fruit was divine and the mug cute to boot! How is it that I got so lucky in finding a guy who remembered the little things? He's perfect. After eating this birthday blessing, I was wishing it would sprout more fruit and reappear as cute as it was at first. I am thinking I may go to the store and collect the supplies to make a few of these to leave in my fridge at home, so that as I go to satisfy my craving for fruit, I am visually satisfied as well :) We'll see. All I can say for now is thank heaven for this edible assortment!!  



Them Man Instincts...

Lately, Nate had this craving to plant a garden. Of course, being the young couple that we are we have no plot or room for a real garden of our own! Yet, he would not give up on his "instinctual behavior to harvest and provide". So we have sort of a make-shift garden if you will. On a sunny afternoon we made our way to Home Depot and bought planter boxes, a massive bag of fertilized soil, and a whole slew of different seeds. Tomatoes, peppers, zucchini, crookneck squash, cucumbers, jalapenos, and Nate even let me get a few flowers :) We got home, and started two pots- our peppers and some snapdragon flowers, and we are faithful waterers and try to give them as much tender love and care. We were very excited. Here is the beginning of our gardening quest! 

Some new couples spend their monies on groceries. But how can I say no when my husband is certain that these plants will save us money and be our own produce section right on our own porch? I couldn't break his heart like that, or trample on his manly instinct to provide! Now that he's got my support, I only hope that the little seeds do their darndest to prove him right too :)

Let's Go Fly a Kite!!

Nathan and I thoroughly enjoy the "little" things in life. And we may be some of Wal-Mart's most faithful shoppers. You find all sorts of special treasures that cheap newly married and expecting parents can find such joy in buying! Like these $1 and $3 kites we bought from our neighborhood friendly Wal-Mart. It was a blustery day just ripe for the kite flyin' but we didn't know it until we passed these beauties in the store. For $4 it was one of our more exciting purchases. We wasted not a moment and so to the park we ran!! Mine was the $1 kite, the one pictured above with Lightening McQueen. It looks like it is up real high, but in all honesty, it struggled a bit and didn't necessarily get up very high at all. Nate kept telling me it was not the kite but it's flyer, which may be partially true, since we had a rough encounter with a tree.... but the real truth of the matter is, I had the cheaper kite. Cheaper, but the character was much better than Nathan's.

So anyways. Nathan was probably more successful with his kite endeavors. His kite was a Transformers Kite, and well, apparently the $3 kite is worth those extra two bucks. After running the park back and forth, being completely out of breath, and dragging lightning mcqueen not so gracefully behind me, I decided to play photographer and capture Nate and his brilliance. His kite got really high up!! And it glided beautifully!

Nate has a gift for the art of kite flying. But after it got really cold and we were SO wind blown that even the best wind was too much for our little kites, we packed up and went home. But our kite flying days have only just begun!! And Lightning and myself have some practicing to do.

And So It Begins

This is the first official blog for the Newman family! Well.....sort of. I created this blog quite some time go, but I am just now getting it rolling, and I am very excited!! I should probably give a bit of a history or atleast a brief update on us. So, hi. I am Mrs. Lindsey Newman, and my husband is Nathan. We have been married for almost a year and a half, and we are pretty much into each other more than ever! We are expecting our first little baby in the beginning of June, and his name is Carter. He looks good in me, but we are all anxious for the next 10 weeks to speed up because he'll be much cuter outside of me we think. Nathan and I are moving to Salt Lake City this month, and we'll be going to Bees Baseball games, working, going to school, and living the dream. So this is us! In a nutshell. We are married, we are in love, and we do spontaneous and exciting things together. So hopefully you'll enjoy reading our blog now and again to take a moment and enjoy the random, the simple, and the every day with the Newmans.