More Easter pictures

The kids after church in their Easter clothes. Joseph always makes fake smiles!

Megan coloring eggs.
Searching for eggs in their footy pajamas.
Sarah when she found her Easter basket with Elmo and a play camera in it. She LOVES electronics! Especially the laptop.
Joseph got a monster truck!
Megan got littlest pet shop!

Happy Easter!

Megan and Joseph coloring eggs!


All done coloring eggs!
Joseph is handing Sarah an egg he found Easter morning

We always go to Brent's parents for Easter and this year was no exception. So after we returned home friday, I did laundry and we repacked on saturday and headed out to my in-laws. The kids colored eggs that night and the next morning we got up, the kids hunted for their easter eggs and baskets, we went to church and came back and had some great food! (I didn't follow my diet on this day!) We had a good Easter and I enjoyed seeing the kids have fun.

This year my kids really had fun with the easter eggs and baskets and thinks but we talked about the real reason for Easter alot during the weeks before and that was nice. They wanted to go to all of their church classes on sunday, which usually when we go to church down in Ottumwa we just go to sacrament, but this time the kids stayed for all, I left with Sarah and Brent and my father-in-law because Sarah was sooo tired, she did not sleep well the night before. But the kids came home and had rocks with the words Jesus is.... written on it meaning Jesus is my rock, or fill in the blank. They enjoyed it. It was good to see family and reflect on the sacrafice Jesus made for us and to celebrate the resurrection of Christ. I hope you all had a great Easter. And I am not writing about what I ate that day! It was all delicious.

Now it is back to getting up early and excersing and eating right, eggs for breakfast, salad for lunch, chicken and green beans for dinner! All the good healthy stuff! Yesterday my steps were around 11,000, Sarah erased it yesterday, so I don't know exactly, and today they are already 8375 and it is 2 o'clock. Megan and Joseph are at school and Sarah is taking a much needed nap! Well, I think that is all for now.

A quick trip

On wednesday last week, we headed out to our hotel for a spring break. We got there around 2, had a quick picnic of sandwiches and chips that I had brought with us and then went swimming. The hotel was full and there were alot of people there. Megan had fun, but Joseph, come to find out had a fever and didn't want much to do with the water, and Sarah didn't know what to do exactly. The pictures are of us in our hotel room. I didn't take any down at the water. We went shopping at an outlet mall the next day and swimming after that and left the following day.

The hotel had a restaurant where the kids eat free breakfast and dinner, which was good but the food wasn't all that great. Brent had soggy bread on a sandwich and I had the bottom part of lettuce in my salad, you know the part that most people don't eat and cut or tear out. It was interesting. We found a vending machine one of the nights with a microwave next to it and so we had popcorn, which Megan and Sarah thought was great, Joseph was asleep. It was a pretty family friendly hotel. They also had an arcade we checked out the morning before we left and the kids were able to trade in their tichets for a stuffed animal, which my kids love stuffed animals.
We had a nice time though and it was nice to be together as a family without any interruptions. I just wish Joseph had not been sick. I ate pretty good while we were gone for being on vacation. I had eggs for breakfast (that were a little watery), for lunch we had sandwiches and dinner I had the salad, and we ordered a pizza for dinner the second night because we couldn't stand to go back and have bad lettuce and soggy bread!
So all in all, it was a good time and the kids had fun!

Pictures of our short vacation

Joseph was sick and slept for awhile after we went swimming the first time.
This is Sarah in her new swim suit, Megan had a polka-dot aqua colored one, they looked pretty cut together in their suits.
This was when Joseph was sleeping and we were getting ready for bed.
When we left, the kids all fell asleep in the van on the way home within about 10 minutes, I think they were all wiped out!