Easter!

To begin with, I want to show you what our forecast was for Easter Sunday...

Yuck!

This is what we got in “snow” that afternoon.

No worries though, we all stayed inside (nice and warm),

took naps, rested and ate pizza for dinner!

We did some Easter Activities on Saturday with our friends, Rusty and Diane!

We died eggs.

They actually turned out really cute!

We did a tie-die-kind in baggies and it was fun.

Nik went out the day after Easter and bought a few more coloring kits.

I’m thinking that would make a great rainy-day activity this summer.

We enjoyed a great dinner and wonderful company that night!

Oh - and look at our table….

Jaxen (I wrote) made name cards for everyone and he set the table all by himself :)

Sunday morning we were up early and made it to church.

We had a wonderful service (and witnessed 5 baptisms)!

It was especially sweet this year to talk with Jaxen about the real meaning of Easter.

The fact that Jesus died on a cross, was buried, and came back to life again…all for us!

It’s hard for him to understand some things (as it is for all of us)

but he is curious, asking questions and I’m so grateful for the opportunity

to share more about Jesus with him!

After church I made the boys take a pic with their Easter Baskets 

(that were already gone through)!

I had wanted to get them rain boots for their baskets,

but ran out of time to find them.

I had hit 4 stores in search of rain boots.

So Sunday after church we trekked out to one more store…and hit the jackpot!

Here is our family selfie on Easter…

super blurry!

But that’s as good as it got.

Zane and I (and Jaxen…he’s just not pictured)

have been having fun playing with these bunny ears!

Hope everyone had a Happy Easter!

Family Time

The weekend before Easter we had more company!

This has been a fun time of year.

First, my sister visited; then some friends; after that, Nik’s parents;

and lastly, Nik’s brother and his family!

They arrived on a Thursday and we let Jaxen skip

school to spend time with them on Friday.

I had to work, but they had a good time!

First up, Scheels!

They got to see fish, ride the Ferris Wheel, go bowling, shoot some guns

and play all over the store - we just love that place :)

For dinner that night we hit up Chuy’s!

Nik and I ate at Chuy’s when we lived in TX and I loved it.

I was so excited to finally go back.

My food was delicious…but Jaxen did not like his at all :(

What he did like, though, were these push ice cream pops!

Cute cousins!

They had the best time together!

As did Zane, Bella and Caleb…we just have a lack of pictures of them…haha!

Saturday morning it was cold…but we hit up an egg hunt at a local church.

Zane did this while he was supposed to be hunting eggs...

cried his little eyes out because all he wanted to do was this...

all the other kids enjoyed the egg hunt though!

Next up - face painting!

The kids enjoyed some egg games, bounce houses and the playground!

We ended our time there with balloon creations

(in the longest line ever, I might add)!

A sword, crown and an egg.

We then went downtown to explore Union Station and Crown Plaza.

Zane took a little nap.

Pics at our favorite coffee/tea place!

I took a pic with Nik and got a cute little photo bomber!

Which lead to this...

and then this!

Thank you Ryan, Anna, Bella, Caleb and Kyleigh

for coming to see us!

Next time…we need to take a group pic!

A Couple of Weekends Ago

Here are a few more pics from a couple of weekends ago!

St. Patricks Day cuties :)

We spent the morning cuddling!

We enjoyed a great lunch with the fam eating BBQ!

This was my attempt at getting us all in the pic.

All ready for church Sunday morning!

Selfies with these two are getting harder and harder!

They love doing this though...