Easter Weekend

Our Easter weekend started with a soccer game.  Riley is really progressing.  He is staying focused throughout the whole game and his skills are improving so much.  This game he played one quarter of offense, one of defense, and one at goalie.  Riley is not exceptionally great at catching, so I was super proud of his saves and no goals scored on him. 

 After the game, we headed to my parents to spend some quality time with the family, including my cousin Jamie, and the kids cousin Caleb.  This is the kids latest game, rolling down the yard in a laundry basket. 

 Then gampa was a human swing.  I was surprised he could even move this morning after swinging the kids around.  Who needs a swingset?

 Then we headed inside for some egg dying action.  We dyed 36 eggs and stuffed 3 dozen plastic eggs.  Lots & lots of eggs!

After dying the eggs, the younger two kids plus a few adults took a nap.  Then as soon as Daddy got home from turkey hunting, we did a little hunting of our own.  Egg hunting!

 Alex kept dropping the eggs out of her too small basket, so she just set her basket down and would go pick them up with her hands and just carry them back to the basket.

 Cousin Caleb may not like to share his toys, but he shared all the pink eggs with Alex.  So sweet!

After the egg hunt, we went inside to open our Easter baskets.  There was of course candy, but also some fun Cars & Princess stuff.

 Alex got an ice cream play doh set that has already been spread out & left a residue on my floor.  LOL!

Caleb got one too.  I hope he didn't make quite as much a mess!

After all the candy, it was time to make dinner.  We had our traditional meal of hamburgers, hot dogs, and homemade ice cream.  YUM!!! 

 Grandma Betty & Grandpa Bill

 As it got late, we knew we had to head home and get the kids to bed. I hated to leave. I really enjoy spending time with my family and watching the kids play together. But we knew we had church this morning and I had to teach Sunday School so it would be an early morning.

This morning our church did something new & really cool.  We gathered all the children & about 150 adults in the courtyard for a butterfly release.  Each child was given a yellow triangle with a butterfly inside.

 Then at the designated moment, they all opened their envelopes and released about 250 butterflies.  There were squeals of delight & a few screams of fear.

Despite counting heads a dozen times,because I was so afraid of losing one of our 19 PreK kids, I would say it was a really neat experience and something that would be lots of fun to do again next year. 

  The rest of our Easter involved lunch at Don Pablos and then just heading home to get some chores done.  It was completely backwards of our usual Easter weekends, but I kind of like not being exhausted tonight after doing sooo much today.  The exhaustion part was last night instead.