A Wonderful Easter Weekend!

We had such a wonderful Easter weekend. I feel so very blessed to have such a wonderful family to share the holidays with! Saturday morning we got up and went to an Easter Egg hunt with Mike's family. It wasn't the best designed Easter Egg hunt but the kids still had a blast. After the egg hunt we headed over to Grandma and Papa R's house for a yummy brunch and Easter fun.

Eli and Jude ready at the Egg hunt

The Easter Bunny was there too!

Isabel had fun too :-)

The 4 big cousins
John Paul almost 3, Jude 2, Madeleine 5, Eli 4

Saturday night we colored Easter eggs with the boys. Isabel had a few puffs while she watched. The boys had fun but it was getting close to dinner time so we kind of had to rush through it.

Eli checking on his green egg

Jude checking on his orange egg

Isabel enjoying her puffs

Sunday morning we got up and let the kids check out their baskets before we headed to church. We were surprised at the lack of reaction that we got from Eli. He looked at his basket and then went and sat on the couch. We asked him if he wanted to get his basket off the table to look at his stuff and he said no. Then as Jude was looking through his own basket Eli was getting excited about what was in Jude's, of course they had quite a bit of the same things. Finally I just put Eli's basket next to him and then he was excited about it. I'm not sure why it took him a few minutes. Isabel crawled right to her basket and right to the puffs. :-)

The kids Easter basketsEli
Jude
Isabel

Finally checking out his basket

Jude checking his basketIsabel going for hers :-)

Trying on a pretty new bow!Checking out all his goodies

Yummy! She found her puffs!

Jude reading his new book

Checking out his shark squirter!

Our Bizzy Bee with her new Busy Bee :-)
Love these 3!

Elijah Kent

Jude Michael

Isabel Annette

We had a wonderful time at church. I was overwhelmed with how blessed I felt to be standing their with such a wonderful husband and 3 wonderful kids. I am so thankful for what God has given to me. After mass a lady came over to us and told us that our kids were the best behaved children she had ever seen in church. That is such a wonderful compliment. Of course if she could see the way they act at home she might not feel the same way. :-)

Dressed and ready for Easter Mass

After Mass we headed to my mom's for an Easter lunch and egg hunt. My mom hid over 500 eggs for 10 kids. Isabel even had 50 eggs full of puffs to collect. Of course that ended up being her playing with the eggs while Eli and Jude helped put the eggs in the basket for her. :-) The boys had a blast hunting down the eggs outside, especially their special big eggs filled with goodies. There were also little plastic carrots hidden with money inside them. 2 had $5 and the rest each had $1. Eli found both of the $5 carrots! It was so much fun to see the boys having running around looking for eggs. They had a blast. I am so blessed. :-)

Hanging out by the bunny at my mom's houseI tried to get a picture of Isabel and her 2nd cousin Addyson together but Addyson didn't like the bunny and started crying and then Isabel started crying because she doesn't like when others cry. Such cuties :-) Isabel all ready for her egg hunt. :-)The boys on the hunt for eggs! Eli with his big egg!
Jude with his big egg!
Jude was super excited about his new Mickey swim trunks from Grandma! And Eli was excited about Sonic!
It was such a wonderful Easter and I feel so very blessed.