"Easter and a Birthday"

We had a wonderful Easter this year and since Elizabeth's birthday was just three days later we decided to combine the two and have an Easter/Birthday celebration. We were able to talk our parents into coming to our house for Easter which was so nice not to have to drive the kids anywhere and try and split time. We started the morning off with opening the kids Easter Baskets. It's always a joy to see how the littlest things make kids so happy. They all loved their baskets and the Easter Bunny even brought Bryce a new little play mat.

Later in the day the grandparents showed up and we had a nice meal together although I spent most of the time feeding the baby. My mom thankfully was a relief, she has such a way with my kids. She always seems to know how to calm them and they love to snuggle on her. The kids also enjoyed three Easter baskets this year. One from the Easter Bunny and then of course each set of grandparents brought them over a large basket filled with candy, toys and clothes, man they are spoiled! The kids had an Easter egg hunt, inside of course since it decided to rain, and we had probably about 150 eggs for just 4 kids to find. They had so much fun finding the eggs we actually even continued to find them for a few days afterwards. We ended up with so much candy and unfortunately for Russ and I we are candyaholics. We have been eating the candy daily, sorry kids!

We ended the day with a little birthday celebration for Elizabeth who is now 5 and on her way to Kindergarten. She is such a bright and lovable child. This little girl will do anything for you and she is super smart and beautiful. She got lots of presents from her grandparents and siblings and we got her a big girl bike. It is a barbie one that even has a mini barbie bike on the handle bars for her to take her barbie along for a ride with her. She loves this thing and has been riding it every chance she gets. The funniest thing that day was when we went to sing Elizabeth Happy Birthday JT got so upset because he wanted to blow out a candle. So after Elizabeth blew out hers we gave JT a cupcake with a candle in it which Elizabeth being such a sweet heart said was okay. As we lit it JT just stood there looking at everyone, he actually made everyone re sing Happy Birthday, but to him this time, before he would blow out the candle. All and all it was such a wonderful day.