Easter and Our Birthdays!

We had a full household to celebrate Easter and our birthdays this year. It was a little hectic to have 5 kids under the age of 3 1/2 and a low ratio of healthy, non-injured adults : kids but, it was WONDERFUL to have both Mike's sisters and their whole families here!

Collin was thrilled to have all of his & Carson's girl cousins here for an Easter Egg Hunt Easter morning. Our company wasn't here long - they were on their way down to Jupiter, FL to watch the Cardinals at Spring Training. Good Friday we got some pictures taken and had our annual Egg Hunt in the neighborhood and family arrived 1 AM that night. Saturday we mostly stayed around the house and played/visited. We decorated Easter Eggs and then went out for pizza for dinner.

On Sunday we somehow managed to all get out of the house by 9 in time for 10 AM church. We got to church by 9:20 to be able to all sit together and the kids were VERY well behaved. We came home, found the baskets the Easter bunny left for the kids and then hunted for eggs among the daffodils in the front yard. We had ham and Easter Eggs for lunch, the girls took a nap and then we had lasagna and Birthday cake for dinner. Our family left Easter night for a long overnight drive to Florida. A lot to celebrate in one day, but it will be another 160 years before Easter falls on our birthday again so we enjoyed the once in a lifetime event.

I'm not sure if Collin understands that it's weird to sing "Happy Birthday" to mom & dad on the same day yet. We were happy at his response when we asked Collin what Easter was about, thinking he would mention something about the Easter Bunny or eggs or chocolate, but instead replied "Jesus died on the cross and rose again!".