MC Egg Hunt

The weekend before Easter, we met up with my college roommate, Dee, and her two boys at Meredith for the annual Alumni Easter Egg Hunt.  The kids got to see the Easter Bunny and there were some activities/games too. Honestly, the hunt was disappointing.  I'm not sure what happened exactly, but the 3 older kids only got 1 egg each, and Davis got 2.  We did our best to keep our attitudes positive and totally over-exaggerated how well they did finding their egg so the kids wouldn't be too disappointed or think something was wrong.  They were all happy about the toy/piece of candy they got in their egg and then us parents took them to play at a park and get a treat to make up for the Egg Hunt debacle :)

Davis did LOVE the Easter Bunny.  That child isn't afraid of anything!

 

the bubble station was a hit, as always with my 3

Davis likes to eat his bubbles.  I'm not sure that the girl beside him thinks that is a good idea :)

EGG!

twins with their "egg"

decorating cookies

sidewalk chalk...another favorite with this princess

at the park with Braxton and Micah

our first real picture since Mike got home...it's one of my faves 

and my roomie...love my DeeDee

Easter

How have i not even gotten to Easter yet?  Seriously ya'll.  We've been so busy having fun, i can't keep up.  If you aren't following us on facebook, where its a bit easier for me to keep up, then you are probably pretty lost on what we've been up to.  Life gets back to some normalcy this week with Mike going back to work full-time and we still have a couple weeks of school/activities before summer so hopefully i will have time to catch-up here. 

So back to Easter... Our first holiday with Daddy back! and of course the Easter Bunny came for a visit, so we had lots of happy faces :)

 The weather was pretty cool and rainy--almost what it was last year...and what happened multiple years while we lived in HI.  I think we might be Easter rain magnets.  You'd think i'd plan for that with our outfits.  But every year Easter Sunday comes around and it's too cold to wear our matching Easter clothes and every year i scrounge around trying to make our Easter outfits "warm".  This year I gave up and but the kids in other things.  Oh well...clothes really aren't the point of Easter anyway...i know that :) 

my pretty babies (i promise D is happy here and not being strangled)

see? 

silly silly at church with Jackie

Later that evening the Sweatlands came over for food and egg hunts--our last holiday with them for a while :( I'm reminded of a few Easter's in Hawaii we celebrated together like this one here.  Kids sure make things look different!)

Egg Hunt On-Lookers, Jake and Judah

Holden looking confused

 Davis on the hunt

 Nora has only gotten better at this with age...haha.  Egg Hunts are serious business!

 happy he found his "special" carrot

 first winner!

 Davis gets the 1 Yr Old advantage...Egg Piles!

 not that he needed it! he found these before the older kids

 it was a fun evening as usual with these 5 cuties!

First Zoo Trip of the Year

a few days before Mike came home we went with some friends to the zoo and took advantage of the beautiful spring weather.  

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3 mommies, 5 kiddos, 1 toddler, 1 infant and a Pop Pop 

it was a really fun day!

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the bigger kids were much more interested this time around in climbing the rocks and playing with all the special activities and hands/on exhibits than they were in the animals

 but of course you gotta stop and watch the lions 

 Davis loved the animals though! OO OO EE EE :)

 Pop Pop hung back with Davis and made sure he was able to see everything.  They are best buddies :)

 rhino rides

 The zoo had just opened it's new bug exhibit and everyone was excited to see some HUGE BUGS!

 well everyone but this princess...she wasn't too into the big bugs...reminded me a lot of taking her to see the dinosaur exhibit 2 years ago. 

 The Bug Man...

 grasshopper faces

 and everyone's favorite part was the dung balls!

 we always gotta ride the carousel 

 The new play area is also open now and we thought it was great!  The kids had a blast playing in the water.  This will be perfect as it gets hotter this summer.

 brody's bfast shirt got lots of attention.  

 water painting

 and of course the seals are always fun to watch too!