It's that time of year again when the English side of the family gets together for an "Easter Extravaganza!" This year was especially fun because my brother Jared was in town for the weekend and the entire family was together.
We started Saturday morning off with crepes and an Easter skillet (which we make my dad prepare every year) for breakfast and then it was off to the yard for the Easter Egg Hunt. Each grandchild filled their baskets to capacity with toys, candy and money. They even had grocery bags filled with all of their goodies. It is so fun to watch the kids light up with excitement as they search for their treasures. A lot of the items had their specific name, so they had to look high and low for their special prizes. Madi's strategy was to pick up as many eggs as she could find and look for her items after because nobody would pick her stuff up (Of course being the oldest grandchild she had to have a strategy, as if their wasn't enough goods to go around.)
After the hunt was over, my mother (super mom) made homemade chocolate covered eggs and peanut butter eggs for the kids to decorate. Boy did they decorate. I believe the more frosting you had on the eggs the better they were according to Jaxson. The eggs definitely looked delicious after the frosting party was over.
Later several of us went to the new Hannah Montana movie, (which was actually good) the kids really enjoyed it as well.
On Sunday we all got together again for a BBQ, the weather was beautiful and we all enjoyed being outside. We brought over Jaxson's rocket blaster and everyone got involved in the action. The kids went crazy over blasting off the rockets, while the bigger kids enjoyed trying to catch the flying rockets. Scott even modified his rocket to see what it could do.
What a fun weekend it was to spend together! I know we all had a great time neglecting our responsibilities and just playing as a family all weekend long.
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