Easter Weekend!

Yes, I know, Easter was last weekend. I am way behind. Again. Sue me! Do any of you know who invented soccer? I would like to hurt him. Anyhoo....

... True to our natural way of doing things,we crammed way more than is humanly possible into our Easter weekend. We kicked it off with a drive to Grandma Kay's, where Brielle discovered how much cooler real babies are than their plastic counterparts. She's met her baby cousins before, but this is really the first time she "got" how amazing they are. She couldn't keep her eyes off them. Thanks, sils, for being so kind and understanding about that! After as much drooling over babies and playing with cousins as we could fit into a 4 hour period, Kutter and I were off to Primary Children's for his sleep study. Please, people, put this on your list of experiences to avoid in life! So not fun! The nurses were awesome, but it was still sheer torture. If you don't believe me, check out this picture of how Kutter looked right before he fell asleep!

and he was way more positive about the whole thing than me!

On Saturday morning, they woke him up bright and early for a finger stick and kicked us right out of there, which was fine with me since Breje and I had a shopping trip planned with the girls. We spent the entire day eating, shopping, laughing, eating, gossiping, and eating some more. (See picture at the top, the one which refuses to move to the correct spot and is driving me crazy but accurately displays the disgusting display of gluttony that we were so dang proud of!)

Next on the list of must -do's for the weekend was egg decorating at Grandma Linda's. The amounts of glitter and tie dye consumed in ten minutes of this is staggering. Their cute creative little faces were so worth it!

I found a fun idea on the internet for the adults involving old silk ties to decorate eggs and I must say that it was quite a hit! Even the older kids could do it and it was way fun to see how well they turned -out!

Easter morning had the kids driving us all nuts, so Grandma gave them one of her famous surprises -- Easter monster trucks. You would not believe how well this went over, even with the little girls, and one of the best parts of the day was watching them play monster trucks together.

Finally, the Easter bunny remembered to hide the eggs and we let all 7 kids loose on Grandpa's lovely yard! How cute are they? I love this picture of Brielle, she's not even pretending to hide her excitement -- and I love that she's just turned her back on an egg hidden right at her eye-level!

It was a matter of minutes before they'd found all eggs and were ready to compare their loot!

The only thing that could've possibly been cuter than that is watching them all pushing each other on the swing set. It almost looks like a lovely spring morning!