Easter Sunday and Monday!

On Saturday night the kids were SO EXCITED about the easter bunny coming. Oh about the easter bunny we did tell our girls this year that he isn't real. The reason being is any time people asked the girls if the easter bunny was coming to their house Cadence got this terrified look on her face and started to freak out. This happened more then once. I guess thinking of a big bunny jumping around her house freaked her out! ha ha! So we told them that we are the easter bunny, but not to spoil it for other kids. So that worked out fine!

I should say that for the last 3 FHE I have been focusing on the real meaning of Easter. I did it in a few different ways. But I wanted them to understand why we have Easter. I love how they all focus on me and listen so well. Then afterwards when Richard and I ask them questions about what we just talked about they are really good at answering. One of the ways I taught them was putting different things in plastic eggs. I just did 4 eggs, and hid them around the living room. So when they found it, we would open it and talk about what was inside. The last egg we opened it was empty. I then showed them a picture of the empty tomb, and we talked about how Jesus was resurrected. It was a good way for them to learn. Whenever we asked them about Easter they would say "Jesus' tomb was empty, just like the egg, because he got a new body." They always put that in their prayers too!

Anyways they were very excited for easter. We were all around and on our bed ready to say our prayers. Someone said the prayer and while they were praying Abbi was bouncing up and down on her knees on my bed. I went to open my eyes to have her stop, but she bounced right off our bed and smashed her elbow on our night table and then landed on her elbow. So the poor girl was crying and crying. I kept telling her she just hit her funny bone and she'd feel better if she went to sleep. Well she fell asleep and then 30mins later woke up screaming. This happened a few times. Then I put her in bed with me and I was up and down with her all night. Richard went and slept with DJ in his double bed. So neither of us got too much sleep that night! She was not a happy camper. She finally fell into a deep sleep at about 4:30am and slept till 7:30am. We made the others wait for Abbi to wake up before they went to look for their baskets and eggs.

I knew she wasn`t feeling good when she just aimessly walked around. I felt bad for her and helped her find her basket so she could sit on the couch. DJ was running around like crazy, so excited. He had a blast finding all the eggs. Brianna and Cadence were searching for their baskets and finally found them. The easter bunny was tricky this year!! So they had a yummy breakfast of chocolate.....oh so healthy!

DJ and Cadence finding the first of the dyed easter eggs that were hidden.

Cadence finally found her basket hidden in with the babies! It took her awhile to find it. I finally had to tell her to stop running around and looking so fast. She had glanced in there twice and then when she took her time she found it!

DJ had one of his sisters help him find his basket. He was very excited to find it hidden. He thought that it was kind of funny!

Brianna found her basket hidden under DJ's cozy coupe car. It took her a while to find it too. She was finding everyone elses but not hers. The rule was they couldn't pick up the basket unless it had their name on it!

Abbi was watching everyone so I finally took her into the laundry room and told her that the basket is in this room. So she looked and this was her face when she found it in the dryer!

Cadence, DJ and Brianna checking out the goodies in their baskets!

Abbi relaxing and trying to tell me she doen't need to go to the hospital. It's her right arm. But as soon as I would ask her if it hurt then big tears would form in her eyes. She was trying to be so tough!

I, then decided to run Abbi into the hospital. I called ahead so they knew we were coming. We waited for a bit till the x-ray technician got there. Then she did some x-rays of Abbi`s elbow. Oh funny thing, as we were waiting, Abbi was trying to convince me that she was all better. She did NOT want to be there. She had a big smile on and said look mom, as she kind of straighten out her elbow. But when the technician was moving her arm at different angles it really hurt her. She was so brave and just bit her lip. Then when I asked if that hurt she started bawling. Poor girl. Anyways the doctor couldn`t tell if it was sprained or broke. He said when it`s on the elbow it automatically goes to the specialist in Lethbridge. So he put a splint on Abbi`s arm. It made a huge difference. She couldn`t move it and I could tell that it brought huge relief to her. I gave her tylenol and then we went to church. We missed sacrament meeting, but made it for classes.

As long as she had her advil and tylenol with the splint on she was pretty happy! I just made sure she took it easy. We went over to Grandma and Grandpa Paxman's house for Easter dinner. It was very yummy. It was just us and Cam there. So it was quiet too. After we cleaned up dinner, Grandpa told the kids that the easter bunny came to their house and hid some eggs outside for them. So we ran out and they ran around the backyard finding lots of eggs full of goodies. It was beautiful out and perfect for them to do it outside. Of course I forgot my camera, but they had a blast. After playing there and having fun we headed home for bed.

On Monday Richard finished putting lights up and doing some odds and ends around the house. I cleaned up and got things ready to go to dinner at Spencer's house. We left and got there around 12:30pm. DJ had a little cat nap on the way there. We got there and had another yummy easter dinner. I love that my girls are old enough to sit on their own with their cousins. They have so much fun. All you can hear is a bunch of giggling going on! So cute! I remember doing that with my cousins!

Richard and DJ relaxing on the couch. DJ was still trying to fully wake up and Richard just loves it when I take his picture! ha ha!

The girl's table! There's Ella, Jasmine, Brianna, Cadence and Abbi!

Grandma Spencer gave each grandkid some bubbles. So after dinner they all went outside to blow bubbles. It was nice out and perfect weather for it. DJ, of course, stayed inside with his dad. He took his bubbles and asked his dad to blow them (by handing him the bubbles and rubbing his chest). So Richard took it out and blew some bubbles out. I just finished writing a really long paragraph of what happened after he blew that bubble, but I erased it. So all I'll say is there was an "incident"! Richard loves to tease and sometimes too much. I grew up with 4 brothers that loved to tease too. But I was pretty good at teasing them back or tackling them to the ground if they wouldn't stop! ha ha ha! Even now when we get together with my family there is plenty of teasing going on. We all tease back or sometimes playfully give the person a charlie horse in the arm! ha ha! But I guess not everyone can take teasing. I have to remember that and so does Richard! Grandma Spencer blowing bubbles with her grandkids!

Richard and DJ blowing bubbles together outside!

The kids had a blast playing with their cousins. It was so nice outside they spent most of it out there playing. I had a whole bunch of kinder eggs, so I went out back and hid them everywhere. There was enough for each kid to find 2. So they had fun running around finding their two. This time I did have my camera and got some fun pictures. They played hard till about 6:30pm and then we put their jammies on and came home. They all went to bed really good! We tired them out!

Brianna found her two kinder surprise eggs!

Abbi with her arm in the splint, found her two eggs!

Cadence ran around like crazy and found her two eggs. When she gets so excited it's hard for her body to slow down! On Sunday when she was looking for eggs on the farm she ended up running by an egg then turning to get and smashing her head right into a stump! It was pretty funny!

DJ was pretty proud that he found his two eggs too. He had to go eat them right away!

Cadence, Kyle and Declan all sitting together eating their chocolate and checking out the surprises in their eggs!

Grandma trying to get dessert ready with 3 little helpers, Brianna, Jasmine and Abbi!

DJ's new friend was his Uncle Justin. He wouldn't leave his Uncle alone. So Justin took him outside and played with him! What a good Uncle!
Cadence, Ella, Abbi, Jasmine and Brianna all on the tramp! These girls had fun running around and playing together.

So that was our exciting Easter weekend. It was busy but fun. The girls were a little sad to find out that they had no school the whole week but I'll do some posts on that next!