1st Easter!

We have a tradition of heading down to my sister's in St. Louis every Easter.  I LOVE it.  It is always better weather and a nice break from our long cold winters.  Although this year has been amazing weather and I can't complain it was still wonderful to get down there and spend time with family.  All the kids did such a good job on the 8 hr drive.  We hooked up the DVD players and handed back to Nathan and Katie the iPad and all was well.  I do keep begging Ben to let me drive one of these times.  Even though the kids do well I had to act like a pretzel more times then I care to count to try and pick something up they dropped or find that silly nuk that Ana will not give up or pass back a drink....well you get it.  We also decided that we definitely need a storage carrier on the top of the van.  Our stuff was so packed in that if you did drop anything good luck finding it!  My goal before our next travel is to make some type of holders to put on the back of the seats.  That way each kid can put the necessities in it and we can find things easier.  At least that is my plan :-)

Back to the weekend!

We always head to the zoo for a day.  It wonderful and fun and the best of all is it is free!!  During the day my sister, mom and I headed over to The Sports Authority to help out the easter bunny and shop for some goodies.  While there I saw a stroller that I love!  I told my mom that is exactly what I need.  Right now I have a sit and stand but Ana will not stand in back and sitting she feels the need to continually bother Caleb and it is very hard to push on walks.  My mom had saved some money for our trip to China that we did not need to use so she offered to use it for that!!!  How awesome!  Joni then also had a 25% off coupon which we used so it worked out great.  We used it at the zoo and I tell you I am so darn happy that we got it. I also already used it at home to walk the kids to the library and it was perfect!!

Saturday we celebrated Easter.  The kids woke up and searched for their baskets.  The silly easter bunny hid Katie's in the exact same spot as last year so it took about 30 sec to find her's...lol.

Yep that is Caleb puking at the end....starting to question reflux because he does this often!

I just realized I have no pictures only video.....I failed at capturing this Easter morning in pictures :-(

Wait found some picture!!!

After an awesome lunch/dinner we headed outside for an Easter egg hunt.  It was so fun to see the kids running around trying to find them.  I absolutely love the age they are at.  Caleb was not too sure of everything and needed to be coaxed into picking them up but he still had fun.

So I have come to the conclusion that it is impossible to get a good picture of all of them so I just picked one that at least one of them was looking and had a nice smile :-)

Sunday we celebrated Ana's birthday since Auntie JoJo and Uncle Brett can't make it up this weekend.  Joni's friend just started her own business out of her home making these cakes on a stick.  Ana loves Minnie Mouse and the cakes turned out so darn cute.  Best of all is they are the BEST cakes I have ever tasted.  They are so moist and remind me of oreo balls but chocolate or vanilla.  Yummy!!!

It was a wonderful, amazing weekend and to be able to celebrate with family always makes it that much more special!