Exciting Week

Max received his 1st Communion this Saturday (April 28). He was so excited when the big day came. He was very glad Grandma, Aunt Coco, Kelli, Aunt Sara, Oliver and Parker could be here for his big day. It was a nice ceremony, we were all proud of him. We came back to the house to celebrate with pizza, opening gifts and hanging out with our family. It was a great time.



These pictures should probably be flip-flopped. First is Max leaving the church and the next is Max reading part of the responsorial psalm. He did a great job.



There's Max so proud,and here's our family so proud of him.


Here's Grandma after the ceremony with the grandkids that were here. The first row is Sophia, Grandma, and Kelli. Behind them is Timmy, Parker, Oliver and Henry. And standing are Alex and Max.



Here's Max with his 1st Communion cake. It was his idea to have a chalice and hosts as his 1st communion dessert. We all enjoyed eating it.




On Monday Alex received his Arrow of Light. It is the highest honor a cubscout can earn. He also became an official boyscout and will attend his first boyscout meeting this Monday (April 30). He was very excited and is looking forward to boyscouts.

Other moments at Sara and Eric's

Timmy stuffing his face on the way to Sara and Eric's.


Right after I took this picture. Alex said, "Mom, we're not playing together." I replied, "I never said you were." Alex came back with, "I know you took the picture to make it look like we were playing together. But we're not." So for the record Alex and Oliver are only playing side by side. :)





We spent a fair amount of time outside - in the sandbox, on the swing set, picking dandelions, just playing.


Everyone took turns trying to build a tower taller than they were, they weren't successful but had a lot of fun trying.


An empty box is always fun!

Easter at Sara and Eric's

At about the last minute we decided to make the drive to Illinois to spend Thurs.- Mon. of Easter weekend with Sara (Randy's littlest sister) and her family. We had so much fun! The kids played well. The sun shined and the weather was nice. Best of all we did a lot of relaxing and visiting and just hanging out. It was wonderful. (Of course there were the not so wonderful moments at mass Thurs. and Friday. Well moments might be an understatement. But the kids were nice enough to take turns having there difficulties. Parker took Thursday and Timmy took Friday. Needless to say we weren't the only ones in the cry room/ back of the church.)





Easter Eve. I believe Sara had the brilliant idea of having the kids take turns one at a time dying their eggs. And then as the eggs sat in their assigned colored cups we read the kids stories. It worked amazingly well!!! We will be making this a tradition at our house each Easter Eve from now on.





Easter morning!! After staying up late chatting, all the adults were glad the kids waited till a little after 7 to wake up. As you can tell by the red jell between Timmy's teeth and Parker's sticky peep smile the 2 littlest were much more interested in the candy than the eggs. But all 7 kids had fun searching for eggs, and checking out their Easter baskets.


Each year the Easter frog comes to our house and so he hopped his way over to Sara and Eric's to find us again. He leaves rocks hidden around the house and terrible canned goods nobody wants to eat. Here are the 3 oldest with there treasures from their amphibian friend.



No Easter is complete without family pictures right? It was beautiful so we took them outside. You all know all of the ya-hoos in our family. If you don't know the other family is Eric and Sara (Randy's littlest sister) and their children Parker, 1, and Oliver, 3.





At the end of the day, Alex and Max hid plastic eggs outside so the younger kids could have an outside egg hunt as a nice end to all our Easter fun.



On our way home we made a quick little stop to see my Aunt Eileen (we would have liked to see Uncle Pat and my cousins as well but understandably everyone had to work). It was so sweet, there was a Easter basket for each of our little munchkins and an inside egg hunt awaited them. They had a lot of fun. And have enjoyed their goodies. It was so nice to stop, we only wish it could have been longer.