We kicked off Easter weekend on Saturday by letting Reed and Kieran open a few cards and gifts they had received in the mail from G-Momma and Blingy. They were so excited by the personalized cards and cool new caps, it was pretty cute!
Sunday morning both boys were up at 5:30 am, this was definitely less than ideal but Reed was screaming about a bug buzzing him in his room and Kieran had to poop so what are you going to do? They were both so excited to go through their Easter baskets and the Easter Bunny did a pretty good job of giving them useful things like sunscreen, summer shoes, pajamas, bathing suits, garden shovels, and baking tools. He did throw in some jelly beans and a movie, but I guess that's acceptable. We had breakfast, picked up around the house, and made desserts for later in the day. Our original plan was to go to Aunt Penny and Uncle Mark's in the evening for a Birthday dinner for Great Grandpa Dean (his Birthday was on Easter this year), but sadly Penny was injured really badly after being knocked over by her dog, so our plans changed and instead we got to celebrate his Birthday and Easter all at lunch. The Stoothoffs joined us this year and it was so much fun to spend some time with them and cute little Maisie. We had three egg hunters and they acted pretty predictably - Kieran and Lyla took turns helping each other and Reed ran around grabbing eggs before the Littles could reach them, he did however do a good job of not picking up any on the lawn per my instructions. Each kid had a special egg hidden with a toy in it but the rest of the eggs were empty. I think the Easter Bunny knows from past experience that these kids get plenty of wonderful gifts from so many relatives and friends that there is no need to add anything else. It was a beautiful sunny day and after all of the festivities we managed to hang out with a lot of the crowd for a good chunk of the afternoon just playing corn hole, eating, drinking, and chatting.
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| Stand in Grandpa Jay with Auntie M, Baby Ben, and Hunky Kevin |
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| Egg Hunt Spectators |
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| Not so good at keeping the eggs in the basket! |
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| The Burchett Family |
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| The Boys Checking out Lyla's haul |
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| The Ketelsen Family |
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| Kieran decided he wanted to be a Ketelsen |
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| The extended Cozzi Family |
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| The extended Gillette Family |
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| The Stoothoff Family |
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| Kids Table |
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| Happy Birthday Great Grandpa Dean!!! |
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| When you gotta go, you gotta go. |
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