Easter!

Happy Easter to everyone and praise be to God that He is Risen! What a blessed holiday celebration Easter is! This year Easter weekend also coincided with Stuart's Grandfather's 80th birthday. On Friday we headed to the town of Elkhart, KS where Stuart's grandparents live. Most of Stuart's cousins were planning on being there, though we missed Elaine and Lee(if you are reading this, we really did miss you guys and your families).

Saturday brought birthday festivities and even more of Stuart's family. I thought my family was big! It was really a lot of fun getting to know all of the cousins and their children.

After the party us moms decided that we needed to have an Easter Egg hunt. So we went to store and got some eggs and jelly beans to hide in them. We got the kids together and hid all the eggs. We thought 62 eggs would be enough. As it turns out the older kids had done this before.

They had so much fun. The big kids were off and Blaire kept running after them just to find nothing. We had to have a lesson in egg hunting, i.e., egg hunting is not a team sport! It was so fun to watch her "find" the egg and squeal with delight(that sounds very Laura Ingalls) as she ran to put the egg in her basket! The kids all located the eggs within minutes.

So came round two. Stuart and Uncle Ryan hid the eggs this time. I will let the pictures tell the rest....




After a fun filled weekend in Elkhart we headed home on Sunday morning. I was a bit disappointed that we hadn't made it to church and the girls hadn't had a chance to wear their Easter dresses. So we called up Grandma and Grandpa Wagner and they came over. The girls put on their dresses and got their Easter Baskets. Then, we celebrated with pizza!

I hated it that we didn't make it to church as I know that Easter is not about bunnies and eggs(though they make for fun traditions). We did have lots of opportunity to talk with Blaire over the weekend about why we celebrate Easter!

It really was a great weekend, though exhausting. I am so glad that today Monday is a day off for me and the girls to relax.

First Haircut!

Well the time finally came. Presleigh "needed" a haircut. By saying that she "needed" a hair cut I mean she needed a couple of snips to the back and the front. She doesn't have much hair but it was beginning to look a little muletty! So since Dad and Blaire needed haircuts we decided to make it her official first haircut and took her to see JoJo!

We sat her in the chair and JoJo(Linda Jo) and I strategized our plan of attack with Presleigh's growing do! There are lots of questions to be addressed; bangs, or no bangs, layers or no layers. You see what I mean. This isn't just as easy as snip, snip and see you in six weeks!

We ultimately decided that given Presleigh's facial structure we would grow out her bangs and short in the back. You see, as much as I love hair bows and tutus, I do NOT have time to mess with hair in the morning. When the girls get old enough to manage it on their own....then we'll talk!

So with a strategy in place, JoJo went to work. Two minutes later she had a brand new do!