Easter/Conference Weekend

It was so fun to have Easter fall on Conference Weekend this year. It made it a little more crazy to get everything in but it was still a blast. Saturday in between the morning and afternoon sessions we did our 'Bunny Day' celebration. It was cold out so the guys had to hide the eggs inside the house again this year while the kids were upstairs in Grandma and Grandpas room. While we were up there Grandma gave all of the girls necklaces, bracelets, rings and sticker earrings. Benjamin got a stretchy frog and Zac got a stretchy lizard. At first Benjamin didn't show much interest in the frog, he wanted bracelets like the girls. But after hanging out with Zac all weekend the frog made a come back.

As part of tradition we gave Benjamin and Brook a few minutes start. It didn't take Benjamin long to catch on to how everything works. He would run from egg to egg saying 'More!" All of the kids got a good amount and pretty equal too, so we didn't have to re-distribute any.

Talk about having all your eggs in a row! Rachel had fun taking her eggs out, lining them up and counting them. She proudly exclaimed "I got 23 eggs!!"

Benjamin was following in Rachel's foot steps. Also do you see the blue and green bracelet in the picture? Those belong to Benjamin, I told you he wanted them more then the frog.

Here are all of the cousins with the baskets and loot. Rachel insisted on wearing her Easter dress on Saturday and I wasn't about to argue. What ever was going to make her happy for the day.

Rachel and Ally. What can I say about these two. They are so much alike in personality that there is no between. They either get along really well or not at all. Yet they are still the best of friends.

On Easter Sunday the girls sported their Easter hats from my mom. No Easter dresses but still they are super cute.

Benjamin had a blast playing with the water dispenser on the fridge. We were pretty good at keeping it locked so he wouldn't get a face full of water . . . though once or twice we just weren't fast enough. Marc and I would one day like to get a fridge like this but seeing what he can get into so easily makes us think it over a little more.

One of Benjamin's new favorite thing to do is make fish faces and give fish kisses. It's adorable and I love it!

On the way home Sunday night Rachel crashed HARD. We must have only been in the car for 20 minutes before she looked like this. I guess that's what happens when you play hard for 3 days and don't get naps. Benjamin stayed awake much longer and kept reaching out to take Rachel's hand. I think he was trying to wake her up so he could have some company, but it didn't work and he finally gave up and fell asleep too.