Happy Easter

Happy Easter to everyone and Happy 85th Birthday to Grandma Kaup.

What a weekend we had and it's hard to believe it's back to work tomorrow. We are trying to recover from all the Easter activities but we thoroughly enjoyed the week.

Thursday night the four kids colored Easter eggs at Stacy and Ted's. Wow, was that chaos. Some tried to drink the dye, some got spilled, some eggs got cracked but all in all we had a great time. Mom and dad brought pizza over afterwards. After that, the girls and I quickly made our yearly visit to the mall to see the Easter bunny! Luckily there was no one else there and Lauren loved him. Then we made our way to our storage unit. I had "jumped the gun" and put away our winter coats. Luckily we quickly retrieved them for our trip to Stuart for the Easter egg hunt.

Friday morning early mom and dad and Brian picked up Emma and took her to Stuart with them so she could spend some extra time with her cousin Mara from Colorado. Dave and I enjoyed our quieter night with just Lauren by eating "all you can eat fish and chips" at a local restaurant. YUM!!

We got up early Saturday morning and left for Stuart at about 0600hrs. Saturday we celebrated grandma's birthday with family and friends and of course had wonderful food and cake. Then we "bundled up" for the easter egg hunt in the park. It was FREEZING!!! Needless to say, we were in and out in a matter of five minutes, but the kids enjoyed it...especially Emma.

We left Stuart at about 6:30 that night and we thought the kids would maybe sleep some of the way back. YEA RIGHT! Lauren fell asleep about a mile from home and had been angry and frustrated most of the trip. Emma was frustrated because Lauren was frustrated and Dave and I just focused on not becoming frustrated! :)

The easter bunny came of course this morning and Emma was thrilled to find all of the eggs. She watched her new movie "Milo and Otis" and begged to watch it again. Dave had to work at 7 this morning and met us for only a little bit at grandma Spizzirri's for lunch. The girls and I all took a nap this afternoon and Dave got home, changed his clothes, then got paged in to work. :( Luckily that didn't last too long.

We hope everyone had a wonderful blessed Easter!