Easter Weekend

We had a fun and exciting Easter weekend.  It started off on Saturday morning.  Jeremiah had been in Baltimore for a week for meetings, so we headed off to the airport to pick him up.  I'm not sure who was happier-him or us!  We decided to go to Grapevine for brunch at a French restaurant that he and Ally had been to before.  It was delicious!  Ally's choice was the best-crepes filled with Nutella and bananas!  We all had a bite of it, but she made sure there was nothing left on the plate!  It was scraped clean!  We had fun walking around downtown Grapevine.

That is one happy daddy (and 3 happy kids!)!

The kids in front of a fountain in Grapevine.  We had fun seeing all of the "old" parts of Grapevine!

Ally was pretending to be eaten by the shark at the Bass Pro Shop.

From Grapevine we went to the Bass Pro Shops.  The kids love going there so they can climb on all of the boats (and we can dream about having one one day!).  The kids were excited to find out that they were having all sorts of Easter activities, including an egg hut.  They found eggs all over the store and then traded them in for prizes.  

For the afternoon, we decided to go swimming at our gym's pool.  For those of you who haven't been to our gym before, it has 2 big water slides.  Drew has just recently started enjoying going down the water slides.  On this day, he decided that he could do it all by himself (go up, down the slide, AND swim to the ladder alone).  AND HE DID!  We were proud of him for being able to swim to the side of the pool from the slide!  He has come a long way in his swimming since last summer! 

After the gym, we headed to church.  We decided to beat the crowds of Sunday (and the bad weather) and go to Saturday night church.  It was a great service!  Ally sat in "big" church with us and had a wonderful time.  

Megan in her Easter dress

The kids were making silly faces on the bed.  I thought it was funny that even Megan was making a silly face!  Our kids definitely keep us entertained!

Drew was so excited to see what the Easter bunny had brought.  Ally had already run by when this picture was taken!  I love seeing the excitement of Easter on the faces of kids!

The kids enjoyed seeing all of their goodies from the Easter bunny.  They received a lot of "crafty" presents this year.  They had fun creating things all day long!

Ally, Drew, and Megan were ready to hunt Easter eggs all over the house (because it was raining outside!).

Look at all our eggs!  Ally even helped put some in Megan's basket since she couldn't do it this year.  Just wait until next year!

Drew was so proud of his eggs!  Both he and Ally were so sweet to each other while they were hunting.  They would give eggs to each other so the other one wouldn't feel left out!

The Easter bunny brought Megan some sunglasses in her Easter basket.  She has had fun wearing them all around. They will be great at the beach this summer!

We had a wonderful, blessed Easter this year!  I have to say, my favorite part of the day was right after the kids got up and we read the Easter story in our bed.  It was so nice to hear them tell me most of the details about Easter!  We hope you all had a wonderful Easter weekend as well!