We're nearly done getting the house set up, and I'll post more once we are.
Now, for our easter adventures. This really begins the week before easter. The kids had the week off of school for spring break so we visited my family in south dakota. It was great to see them again (Aaron and the kids haven't seen them in a while) and we had lots of fun. It was conference weekend, so most of our time was spent at the house, but the kids had fun playing in their backyard, and my brothers even made a makeshift swing in one of the trees. Sunday afternoon we had an easter egg hunt for all of the grandkids, and for dinner we had a fun April Fools Day dinner.
After we said our goodbyes and made our way back home, we spent the rest of the week working on the house. We got the kids rooms organized, planted our garden and set up the new swingset in the backyard.
That weekend we decided to pay a visit to our friends back in Colorado Springs. We spent the night there and had a good time catching up and just having a good time.
For easter the kids had their baskets waiting for them in the morning. However, we have 9 am church, so most of our morning was spent in a rush to get everyone ready. After church the kids spent most of the afternoon playing outside while Abby napped and I made dinner. Then once Abby woke up they had some fun coloring eggs with Aaron. Aaron's friend Molly also joined us for egg coloring and easter dinner and the kids ate up all the extra attention :). Abby was so funny coloring the eggs. She had never done it before and found it fascinating that the egg would change colors. She would stir the egg around in the cup and we'd pull it up every once in a while so she could see it and she would get all excited, but she would never want to take it out of the cup :) that is, until we could convince her to do a new one in a different color :).
After egg coloring, and a delicious easter dinner (if I do say so myself) we had a bit more fun with some marshmallow roasting outside in the firepit. We made some s'mores and had some good laughs. Abby didn't want to roast marshmallows, she just wanted to eat them. So I had Nicolas get one of the treats from her easter basket. It was four different colored peeps on a stick (kind of like a peep-kabob). She was interested in that long enough to bite all the heads off, but then she just wanted the regular marshmallows. I decided it would be fun to try to roast the peeps...since their already on a stick and everything :). They were actually pretty good! And molly made the comment that it would be funny to take a picture with me roasting the peeps with one hand and holding a chocolate bunny on a graham cracker in the other...all ready for a nice easter s'more :).
All in all, a nice week.
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