Easter Weekend and Friends and New Things!

Oh good grief. Easter was in March and we are here in the middle of April trying to catch up!

Our Easter weekend started right after our Preslar cousins left. We ironically had Friday and Monday off of school, but we had to stay in town because Mom and Dad had things to do on Sunday. Cara was disappointed that we weren't spending actual Easter with the Preslars because it had become somewhat of a tradition!

Her disappointment was short lived, however, because we had some awesome friends come in to town and we hung out A LOT and ended up doing Easter with them! The Corey family is one of our favorites. Darren is one of Dad's good friends and luckily Maddy and Mommy get along great and so do us kids! They have Ruby who is basically in between Cara and me and then Johnny, Mae, and Jemma. Mae matches Iva and Jemma matches Sam! Johnny is kind of a lone wolf because we don't have another boy!

On Friday we even got to see Aunt Margaret and Mary Grace for a few minutes as they passed through town and because Aunt Angie was going to have to work all Easter weekend we were holding our grandkid Easter Egg hunt in the afternoon!

Cara and I were too quick for pictures so Mom only got some of Iva.

This egg was supposed to be for me, but somehow I managed to not see it and Iva got it!

We went out to dinner with Coreys and it was funny to see Sam and Jemma together. Jemma is so little and light compared to our boy, but they match with their creamy skin and bald heads!

We went to their hotel and went swimming which was probably one of our favorite parts even if the pool was a little crowded since St. George seemed to be THE place for Easter weekend.

Thanks to the Coreys we even did some things that we had never done before! They had heard about Sparkle Mountain out on the Arizona strip and wanted to check it out. We joined them and were so happy to play. Sparkle Mountain or Glitter Mountain is an old gypsum mine essentially. We had a lot of fun trying to hammer out pieces of rock for ourselves, but there was plenty on the ground too! It was pretty windy and we were certainly not alone out there so we didn't stay super long, but we brought back plenty of extra rocks!

Dad helped us build a fairy house out of gypsum!

Oh and how could I forget? We actually started the morning by attending an Easter Egg Hunt at Fiesta Fun. They greatly underestimated how many people would show up but we still got a few eggs in the 10 seconds that the hunt took!

Unfortunately that afternoon while doing our own pretend Easter egg hunt in our yard, Cara took a basket to the head. It was a plastic basket that was empty, but it managed to almost split her head open!

Easter morning we invited the Coreys to join us for church and then an Easter Egg hunt at our house. Despite the fact that church is at 9 am, Iva somehow managed to spend the morning eating lots of chocolate. That was the favorite part of her Easter basket.

Trying to get a good picture of the four of us is pretty hard. Mom liked the after church shot more than the before church shot...

She once again managed to get mostly photos of Iva enjoying her egg hunt.

Wait! There's a picture of me!

All eight of the kids!

It was so great to play with Coreys. We love Ruby and had so much fun. They also had to return up north so we said our good byes after eating a lovely Easter brunch of ham sandwiches!

We, of course, went over to Grandma and Grandpa's house still and the adults had their Easter egg hunt. This year, instead of just money, Grandma decided to make things interesting. Uncle Marty thought he had SCORED with ten eggs until FIVE of them were these!

Hahaha!