St.Louis

We had a great time in St. Louis this past weekend. Thank goodness we went too. The weather at home was some of the same....rain. It was warm and sunny in St. Louis. We all had a blast.

We all spent some time at the Porter's. Friday getting ready for Porter's first annual hog roast on Saturday. I'll spare the photos of the pig. We'll say that Addie was a vegetarian this weekend. She then realized that ham, bacon...all came from the pig.

Saturday morning we went to the Zoo. The highlight was the elephants. Garrett went bananas for them. Here's a cute video clip. Enjoy.

Garrett is now 18-1/2 months. Words he can say:

• truck
• tractor
• thank you, yes, please
• momma, daddy, sissy, papa
• juice, drink
• coat, hat, shoes, boots, sock
• diaper
• mine
• hi, bye-bye
• cow, bird, duck
• moo, bahh, quack, tweet-tweet
• acky
• cookie (koo-koo)
• row-row
• boat
• hot
• uh-oh
  

Happy Easter!

Oh this weekend has been busy. Aside from major emotional 4-year old melt downs, it was a good weekend.

Easter celebrations began last Sunday, Palm Sunday, at Grandpa Pumpy's and Grandma Janet's house. Then came our much needed 3-day weekend.

Friday, we all went shopping, got Mommy's hair cut, took naps and colored eggs!

Saturday - Adeline went to Lauren's birthday party at Fired Up in Peoria Heights. Any budding artists out there will love this place. That afternoon we hosted Easter dinner with Grammy, Papa Rick, JT, Dalton, Uncle Matt and his friend Steph. We had a great time and were able to enjoy the nice evening with the kids playing outside.

Sunday was busy with the Easter Bunny arrival at home, breakfast and egg hunt at church, and of course church. Naps (much needed for little miss) again for the fam this afternoon - except for Mommy, darn it. Off to the park in the afternoon for slides, swings and flying kites!

Enjoy the photos.

Egg Hunt - Part (oh too many to count!)

Garrett, our handsome little man, was more interested in opening the eggs, keeping the contents and dumping the eggs. Very funny, cute.

Adeline took a very short break to pose with her goodies!

We made several attempts at getting a posed Easter Sunday picture. Clearly it didn't work but this is much better and more fun!

Saturday fun

Egg Coloring Fun!

Adeline was eating one egg, then coloring one egg. At least she only ate one or two otherwise the Easter Bunny was going to have been shorted!

The coloring process still requiring a little more patience than Garrett can handle.

I want "up, up" -> aka get me down!

Grandpa Pumpy and Grandma Janet's