Week Before Easter

We started this week off on Monday with Miley's 3rd birthday. She got a new "lambie" for her birthday which she loves!

All of my teacher friends were excited because this week was only a 4 day work week. We all decided to go to Yogurt Mountain after school on Thursday to celebrate! Here are all the girls with baby Livia:

Ava LOVES babies, especially sweet Livia!

Once we left Yogurt Mountain, we brought the whole entourage over to the cove so the kids could play. We had about 20 kids playing ball in the cove. They had a blast. Then we all went to Game Time for dinner.

We met my parents, and my brother's family at Rizzi's for lunch on Friday. Then we headed back to the cove for an egg hunt. Here is the gang ready to hunt eggs:

I love that the girls still love the egg hunts. I am sure next year, one of them may have out grown the hunts so I tried to soak up every second this year.

This picture is SO Austin. He lined up all his eggs to see how many he got.

After the egg hunt, all the kids headed to the backyard to jump on the trampoline.

Saturday morning brought the girls' 2nd soccer game. Their team won 1-0 and Elia scored the goal! She loves her sports! This is a picture of Ava before the game. I am not sure why I didn't get one of Elia.

Saturday night we headed over to Kevin's parents for Easter dinner. The girls love playing on all their land and climbing their trees.

When we got home, we set out the Easter baskets for the bunny, and the girls each wrote a letter to the bunny.

The Easter bunny came and here is what he left the girls! I was really glad the bunny was practical this year and got the girls things like pajamas and sidewalk chalk (things they will really use).

Ava woke up around 7am (yawn!) to check out what the bunny left. Then she enjoyed a Reese's bunny for breakfast.

Elia woke up about 30 minutes later. She took a while to actually wake up.

Then it was the mad rush to get everyone ready for church in their Sunday best. Church service was at 9:30 this morning so things were looking good when we were all ready by 9:00. That was until it was time to take Easter pictures. Someone was not happy about getting their picture made, or it could have been because the grass was green or the sky was blue. Who knows but she was sure a sour puss when I broke out the camera. Then things went from bad to worse. I was screaming at her, she was crying, Kevin was trying to get everyone in the car, and Ava was freezing. What a lovely Easter morning! HA!

Once we got home from church, Elia said she was ready to try pictures again and as you can see, I got better results this time. Our neighbor takes pictures so he also came over with his high tech camera and got some shots of the girls and our family. I will post those as soon as I get them from him.

After the girls changed, they tried to fly their new kites. However, the wind as not quite strong enough.

Once we went inside, I managed to take a GOOD 3 hour nap!!! It was so nice. Then I went over to Carol's, woke her up from her nap, and we sat outside while the kids hid eggs from each other one last time!

HAPPY EASTER!!!