Happy Easter!

Wow! What a fun-filled, busy weekend!! We headed "home" on Friday and stopped at my Mom's. The kids searched for eggs and enjoyed their first sugar-high of the weekend! We spent the night there and stayed for some pancakes on Saturday morning. We were kind of worried about how the rest of the weekend was going to go when we walked out to a flat tire on our van as we were getting ready to leave!!! :( We filled it up with air and were able to make it back to town, so that was good! And lucky for us, it was able to be fixed instead of needing a new tire!! :) Yay!!

While our tire was being fixed, my Mom & I took the kids to see the Easter Bunny! Bryce was excited! Jenna..... not so much! She acted as though she was going to sit on his lap - but once it was her turn, the tides changed! She spent the rest of the weekend talking about how the "Easter Bunny is going to bite her"! haha! :)

After seeing the bunny, we headed to Cory's parents house and started the day with Hayden's 7th birthday party!! I have such a hard time believing that Hayden is SEVEN years old! Wow! It seems like just yesterday I was emailing baby pictures of him to my friends, bragging about what a cute nephew I had! That cute little baby has turned into quite a special and sweet little boy! Hayden is GREAT with his younger cousins. He is so nice to the girls and he plays great with Bryce -- even letting him win the games they are playing every once in awhile!! :)

We always love a cousin photo-op! I think they are getting better at this! This was one of the best and easiest photo sessions we've had!! :) (Jenna, Bryce, Demi, Hayden & Bella)

Next, we celebrated my niece, Demi's 2nd birthday! Demi is a sweet little princess with beautiful curls! Watching Demi and Jenna (and Bella too) play together is so cute and special! I think these girls will grow up to cause major grey hairs for us!! Demi is going to be a big sister and just found out that she will be having a little SISTER!! :) Demi will be such a big help! She's been practicing a lot with her baby dolls!

She had a BLAST when we sang Happy Birthday to her!! OMG! It was PRICELESS!!

Here is the video of her while we sang! What a cutie!!

Next up was an egg hunt in the backyard! Here's Bryce helping Jenna find some eggs! He's such a sweet big brother!

And once the sun went down, we retired to the kitchen to color some hard boiled eggs!

Before church on Easter morning, I took the kids outside to try to get a couple pictures in their cute little matching Easter outfits! We started on the deck and there was QUITE the breeze! I thought this picture was funny! If you could hear them - they were saying "We're COLD - let's go inside!!!! WHY are you making us do this Mom?!?" :)

So we went out to the front step, where the house blocked the wind! Got a MUCH better picture!

Here we are at church..... YES - in the basement of the church!!! Arg! My little stinker Jenna had a very hard time with the whole "staying quiet" thing and since there was also a baptism going on, I felt bad having her cry out every few minutes. We spent a lot of the sermon down in the basement watching a cartoon Christian movie! :)

After church, we headed to my Dad's house! They have a GREAT backyard with plenty of room to run and play! There were bubbles.......

and Kites.... a little Golfing.... and of course, an Easter Egg hunt!

Bryce and Grandpa also had a sword fight down in the basement! I think Bryce won!!

We got home last night to see that the Easter Bunny had found our house as well! What a great, great weekend! So many fun activities and a lot of good family time! I hope you all had a wonderful Easter weekend as well!