Our Easter Weekend

Well our Easter weekend was extremely busy and full of fun. It started off Friday night with some of Brooklyn's friends coming over to dye Easter eggs. I think some of their fingers may still be colored. It is always a lot of fun to dye eggs but can leave quite the mess.


Maddux and his pink hands.


Brooklyn with her new eyeballs.


Nolan couldn't let them have all the fun.

Then with Saturday being the day before Easter there were no games scheduled for that week so I took the three older kids to the IX Indoor Amusement Park. It is a giant indoor building filled with over 60 different roller coasters and rides for the kids to ride. We have gone for the last 4 years and the kids have a blast. It is nice because you pay one price to get in and then can ride all day long. It is like an indoor fair. We ended up staying for close to 7 hours this time and I was extremely worn out by the end of the day. It was however quite entertaining because for the first time we spent the majority of the day on the adult and big kid rides instead of the little kid rides. The kids were a lot braver and found out, after going on some of the rides once, that they really liked the bigger rides and they were better than the little kid rides. We ended up having to go on some rides over and over again; and these were rides that they wanted nothing to do with in the past. This way I didn't have to just sit and watch but could instead ride with them.


Here are Brooklyn and Maddux on the flying swings. I can only take so many rides that just spin around and around.


Nolan and Brooklyn at the end of the giant slide. You don't have to be a rocket scientist to tell who won. Maddux is not even in the picture yet.


This was one of the boys favorite rides and one that really surprised me. The ride is called the inverter and takes you up and hangs you upside down. I was very surprised that not only did they ride it but they had to go on it multiple times. I did it once and had my share of being hung upside. It is definitely different doing it when you are young and then again as you get older. It just isn't the same. I love this picture because the kids are looking right at me and smiling while they are hanging upside down. The white planks in the background are the ceiling.


Brooklyn and Nolan getting ready to ride the angry caterpillar.


While there we took in a magic show and when the magician asked for some help Maddux was the one he selected. He had Maddux first balance a long feather on his hand and then asked if he could do it on his nose. It actually made it quite awhile before it fell off.


One of the few little kid rides that they went on.


This is the effect of playing Plants vs. Zombies too much on the computer. This is the Zombie look from atop the Ferris Wheel.


I really wish I would have thought of this earlier. By the time I thought about taking video we were on our way out. I did manage to get a little video of them while on the tornado.

Then on Sunday we went over the Grandma and Grandpa Kerr's for a good ole Easter egg hunt and some dinner.


Since it was raining we had to have the hunt inside the house and made the kids wait in the garage until all 260 eggs were hidden.


Payton going through and checking all her loot. This was the first time that she really got into the hunt and didn't stop after the first couple of eggs.


Brooklyn finding an egg in the wreath.


Payton and her blue mouth after eating all of her treats that she found. That girl can put the candy away.

Couple pictures of Brooklyn and her budding sports career. Now if I could only get Jennie to take some pictures of the boys. I am going to have to find a way to do that while coaching their games.


Brooklyn with one of her friends working on her pitching technique. She has really gotten excited about sports this year and really seems to like softball.


I had to put this picture up to show you the size of some of the girls that she is playing against in basketball. It is 3rd thru 5th grade and there are really some big girls out there. This is the girl that Brooklyn had to guard during the game and you can see the size difference. There are some real monsters out there. She is starting to get physical and can play some lock down defense when she wants to.

Anyway, we hope that you all had a Happy Easter and are enjoying your time as we wait for Summer to approach. We are very busy with everything going on right now but wouldn't change anything. It is such a blessing to be able to watch and help the kids with their various activities and we look forward to many many more years to come.