Easter Weekend!

We headed down to Cincinnati for Easter this year. We had a blast spending time with Grammy, Papa, Mark and Ashlie and the girls, and Dan and Jennifer and the girls! There were a lot of people in one house, but the girls had a blast sleeping together in the basement every night and it was just great spending the holiday together. It is quite a drive down to Cincinnati and I wasn't sure how the girls would do, but we rigged up the Ipad and brought along lots of snacks and things for them to do. They did wonderful!

This little lady was so excited to arrive that she never fell asleep.  Enjoying the Ipad to herself with her headphones!

Our first day in Cincinnati we headed to the zoo!  Here are all the girls!!!  We had a blast at the zoo and it was an absolutely beautiful day!

Waiting to get on the train!

Nap time!  I couldn't believe she fell asleep in her stroller.  Norah never did this, so I am not used to having a baby fall asleep during the action! She really needed the rest though, so I am glad she took advantage of it!

The whole week leading up to going to the zoo all Norah would talk about was the manatees.  She saw a show on tv about them and when I told her we were going to see them at the zoo that is all she wanted to see.  So, she finally got to see them!

Grace and Norah

We go all the way to the zoo to have a goat eat out of our hand! Yuck!

This was Norah about 5 minutes after we got in the vehicle!  Poor baby was exhausted!

She didn't even wake up when we got back to the house, so Drew took her in for a little cuddle time.  I pretty sure he loved every minute of it! :)

The next day we were able to go to Grace's soccer game.  We had a little lunch and the girls got to play around for awhile.   

I love this picture!  The look on Emma's face is precious!  She was such a great little helper the whole weekend!

Cheering for Grace

Later that evening we colored our Easter eggs!  

Grace and Hazey coloring some eggs!

Emma and Norah!  Cheeeessseeee!!!!

Hazel was such a big girl on this cool tire swing they had!  She loved swinging back and forth!

After coloring Easter eggs we got to celebrate Audrey and Lilly's 6th birthday!  Their birthday was actually the week after our visit, but we thought it would be fun to all celebrate together!  Can't believe they are 6 already!

And then it was time for our Grammy and Papa egg hunt!  Grammy brought 90 some plastic Easter eggs for the girls to search for in the backyard.  It was absolutely perfect weather and all of the girls were so excited to be outside searching for all of the eggs!

Looking for the loot!

I love this one!  She found one under the bench on the deck and she slithered right under there to get it!

Hazel getting in on the action too!  She was so funny because these pictures were taken on a pretty steep hill in the backyard and she didn't have enough balance to stay in one spot.  She kept falling backwards and down the hill. 

Mmmmmmmmm.......chocolate!

The next morning was finally Easter morning and the girls were sleepy heads that morning.  All of us adults were sitting having coffee waiting for the girls to come upstairs from the basement.  When they were finally ready we were able to snag a picture of them before they were off on their hunt!

Eggs!!!!!!

Norah found her basket from the Easter Bunny!

Family picture before church!  So glad we were able to get this picture together!

All the girls! 

And here we are on the ride home after a beautiful Easter brunch at Hamilton's house!  We had such a wonderful time and made so many wonderful memories!  We can't wait to visit again!