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Easter 2019/Ollie's Birthday

Dana had Good Friday off of work and I decided to take a day of PTO as well. For the first time ever, we dyed eggs at home. We started off outside, but the wind was a little chilly so we moved indoors.









That afternoon we headed out to Tessa's for the Easter weekend. We stopped in Carrington to have supper with Grandpa and Grandma...and check out the baby chicks at Runnings.


...and gang up on Grandpa with foam swords.

Not long after we arrived at Weckerlys' place, we were out by the fire for some Peeps s'mores.




The moon was so interesting that night; it quickly was rising and in an oval-looking shape. My camera didn't capture very good pics of it.


Due to nasty weather back in March, we weren't able to celebrate Ben's birthday with him, so we finally brought him his present, part of which was this Break the Ice game. I remember playing it when I was a kid!

Saturday morning, Wanda (Uncle Chad's mom) put together an egg hunt for the younger kids in Hurdsfield and a resurrection hunt for the older ones. The kids also got to each choose a prize and have some yummy lunch before heading back over to aunt and uncle's house.






Saturday afternoon we celebrated Oliver's third birthday at his 'Cars' themed party.







I heard Skittles are his fav candy.

Clara asking 'pleeease, can I have another cupcake?'

Ben, Dana and Chad were having fun with this giant Jenga game after the party was over.


Sunday morning the girls got up and found their baskets before we headed to a very nice church service at Chad's family church.












Good thing Dana, Ben and Chad practiced up on giant Jenga the day before, because a big tournament broke out after Easter dinner.





Yay! The Easter Bunny came again this year.


The bunny left some eggs outside...





Thanks to Tessa and Chad for hosting another wonderful holiday!

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theweckerlys said…
Aw love it! So glad you guys could come celebrate everything with us!

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