Easter Weekend

Easter weekend was a busy one for us.  Shocking I know!  So my sister Heather was in town for the weekend.  My family packed up and went to Newton to let Paige have some cousin time.  We went to Grandma Greta's on Saturday and had a whole day of fun planned.  When we got there we picked up some lunch and headed to the park to have a picnic and play.  It was so much fun to watch them all run around.  Henry wanted to get out of the stroller and go with them so badly.  Once we were done there we were back to Grandma's for some bike riding!

Left to Right: Carly (Heather's oldest), Paigey, Elise (Heather's middle)

After struggling to get them all to sleep for naps.  When everyone woke up it was time to hunt Easter eggs.  The girls had so much fun, but Colin was the best to watch.  He got so proud every time he found an egg.

Carly and Paige racing to an egg

Colin telling Aunt Nik all about it

He's so happy about his eggs!

Sorting out all the money and candy

Paige got a little tired and decided to watch Wizard of Oz

We then had dinner at Grandma's.  We grilled out hot dogs and brats.  Henry was a bottomless pit as he has FINALLY found his love for table food.  But now he wont stop HA!  Colin thinks its so fun just to be with Henry.  He kept telling me all weekend ,"Henny needs me!".  I love those boys with all my heart.

We spent the night at Hartz's.  They are out of town currently on an amazing warm vacation (JEALOUS).  So we tried to not completely take over their house.  But the Easter bunny came to visit while the kids were sleeping!

Someone is standing on his own now

We then took all 5 kids and went to church at my Mom's church.  That was an adventure.  Rob took care of Henry and all of the exploring he wanted to do.  Heather and I tried to man the other four.  That was a task for sure.  It was so exciting for my mom though to have all 5 of her grandkids in church.  After church it was off to my Dad and Pat's for lunch and another egg hunt.  They had 6 of their 8 grandkids there.  Pat was very smart and color coded the eggs.  So each kid had their own color to look for.  That saved so much drama on who had more eggs, etc.

So in this picture left to right: Elise (Heather's), Carly (Heather), Paigey, Chase (Chantelle), and Colin (Heather)

Once again Colin was so pumped!

We got back to Ankeny and it was so nice outside.  Paige wanted to go out and play so bad.  So we put out a blanket and had some fun.  Paige wanted to get out the water table.  This was Henry's first time playing in it.  He had a BLAST!  But we did end up in swim suits eventually because they were soaked.  We enjoyed dinner on the deck which is our favorite thing to do when it's nice.  We also found out that Henry LOVES avocados.  This kid will eat about anything.  We're so lucky.