Happy Easter!

We stayed close to home for Easter, but that allowed for family fun, visitors, sleepovers, and some home projects.

Jeremiah welcome his friend Nick over for his first non-family member sleepover on Maundy Thursday. They stayed up late, watched movies, played video games and were generally kind to Andrew playing with them. Andrew slept on the couch, which was Mom and Dad's attempt at consoling him being upset about not getting to sleep in the basement with Nick and Jeremiah.
Aunt Sandra and Uncle Roger needed to make a trip to campus with Sophia so Emma and Isabella stopped by to spend time with us on Good Friday. We painted crosses for our church, blew bubbles, played outside and raced each other on the Wii. Isabella took Levi for a stroll around the lake, which sent him in to his afternoon nap. Sophia and Sandra returned to snuggle him for the rest of his nap. Mom and Dad did a few special projects before we dyed Easter eggs.

We spent Saturday doing some house projects and then we went to celebrate Kelson's second birthday. Leave it to Andrew to decide to go barefoot and step in everything from cake frosting to cat poop. Washing his feet upon our return home revealed that he also managed to get quite a few splinters.

We started Easter with the boys' Easter baskets and an egg hunt inside our house. We headed off to church for a nice breakfast, followed by an "Hallelujah, he has risen indeed" hunt, and then celebration service. Jeremiah and Andrew helped set the table for Easter dinner while Mommy and Daddy finished cooking ham, mashed potatoes, and green bean casserole. They boys also helped make crescent rolls.

The rest of our day was all about spending time together. The Easter bunny brought the movie Frozen so naturally we had to watch that. He also brought kites so we headed out to fly them. It was a great day for flying kites. We wrapped up our holiday by watching Amazing Race, which Jeremiah has now decided is his show to watch with Aunt Sandra. They are calling each other before and after the episodes.

And Monday, it was back to the grind for us all!