Happy Easter!

What a great day spent with family and friends.  Brody spent the night with Collin last night.  They boys got up this morning quietly and went into the other room to ply Wii for almost an hour before asking for breakfast.  We knew that we were having brunch with Grandma H in a little over an hour so I did not feed Collin much wanting him to eat when we went out.  At 10:15am, Grandma H met us at the house and we left to have brunch at a local, new restaurant.  We sat outside to enjoy the nice weather and good food.

We came home to clean the house and get ready for the Harrises, Mimi and Pappy to come over to swim and have dinner.  We had a great time swimming for 2 hours before having dinner.  At first, Leah did not want to get in the water very far.  She held tightly onto Paul even though she had floaties on.  She got in the water the last time she was over so we were surprised that she was fearful this time.  Eventually, she swam further and further out until she was even jumping off the rocks into Paul's arms because the big kids were jumping.  Burke did not know what to do with all of the people in the pool.  He ran around and around the pool a few times.  The boys thought it would be fun to shoot Burke with the water guns.  Burke tried eating the water and seemed to have fun so we did not stop the boys from doing this. 

Brave Leah hanging off the side of the first big step

Throwing the sinkers to the big kids for them to find at the bottom of the pool

The boys having fun on the float

The parents enjoying the afternoon especially because they do not have to get into the pool

Burke getting shoot with the water guns

Burke escaping the boys

Eating the water from the water guns

Leah playing with Mimi

Cannonball!

Yeah Leah!  She jumped to Daddy!

Does he think he can soot me from that far?

Daddy grilled burgers, hot dogs (and salmon for me) while Aunt Lisa got the sides, queso and other food ready for the family.  We had a fantastic meal sitting at the dinning room table talking and listening to the kids.

While cleaning up the food and packing up to go home, the kids went outside and found the rest of the eggs left from the hunt yesterday that were not found.  They found another 23 eggs.  Lisa was so proud of the four she found, Timmy counted the seven he had and Collin found the remainder.



Mimi and her family