Easter Weekend

It was a busy and fun packed weekend. My parents made it here Thursday afternoon they helped us finalize some yard work and played with the girls. Friday along with Gracie turning 3 months Matt's mom turned...as Matt would put it "old".

We were able to go to dinner with Ris, Joy, and Brit to celebrate. Originally we were going to go to dinner with all the adults but unfortunately it didn't work out which was dissappointing. My parents were great enough to watch the girls so we could go to dinner and finalize all the food for the blessing.

Friday night my mom gave the kids their Easter. She did cute little packages for the grandkids. Each of them got a new outfit, a toy, and a few other random things. Hallie loved her shirt and has worn it several times already and Gracie got a darling swimsuit and ladybug outfit.


Saturday morning we decided we would do Easter so that Sunday would be left for the true meaning of Easter. The Easter bunny left a trail of eggs for all of us to follow to find out baskets. We knew Hallie was awake when she yelled up the stairs "where did all this candy come from...oh the Easter bunny must have come." It took her about five minutes and some help from Nate to collect every piece of candy from her room to her basket.



Nate and Hallie's findings

Then there was the cheering section


Once she collected all of the candy she found her basket. She got books, a movie(Tangled), and golf clubs. Gracie got some clothes and books she could barely contain herself...for sure.



Nate may act like a tough 17 yr old boy but he really is one of the sweetest kids I know the girls love him.

We got everyone ready in their new outfits and the boys headed off to play some golf while the girls did some shopping.
Rigs is very curious about Gracie and loves headbands...I hope for Nic's sake when she has another one it is a boy!

Testing out the recliners

Once it warmed up and the boys got home from golfing we had a mini Easter egg hunt the kids loved it..even Gracie got in on the action








Kimber brought some AMAZING sugar cookies she got from a store in St. George the cookies and the frosting well I will just say I wish I could have eaten ALL of them and the one I did eat was worth being sick over. Here is Hallie enjoying one of these little jems.


Then of coarse we had to dye eggs...like I said we were really busy.


Then last but not least it was Maddie's 12th birthday on Saturday so we ordered chinese food and had cheesecake before starting up the "spanking machine." It took some convincing but maddie did ultimately crawl through the tunnel(faster than I have ever seen her crawl)