Easter

After waking up and seeing what the Easter Bunny brought us, we started our beautiful Easter Sunday by going to church for their Easter service. After church we met up with Mike (after he slept a little bit after working the night before) and headed to my parents house for Easter lunch and an egg hunt with Cousin Adella. After a yummy lunch the kids headed out for their Egg Hunt. My brother, Paul, his wife Allison and their daughter, Adella celebrated with us. Afterwards, we headed over to Nanny and Paps to celebrate Easter with them and see what the Easter Bunny left for the kids at Nanny's house. Finally, when we arrived home, Grandma Washington stopped by to bring the kids some Easter goodies. It was a lovely Easter day!! Jesus is good!!

Easter Eve

I trust everyone had a super Easter!! We did! Crazy busy, but so nice! The only downfall was Mike had to work over the weekend. His floater day was on Easter Sunday so after sleeping a little bit, he was able to join us that day. On Saturday, the kids and I met up with my parents, piled in our van, and headed for my brother's house in Charlottesville. My parents went to a memorial service that morning while Paul, Allison and Adella (my brother and his family) joined the kids and me at an egg hunt at Charlottesville High School. There were a few activities to do in addition to the hunt and they all came home with balloons. All four kids had a nice time.

We then returned to Paul and Allison's house to eat our packed lunches, wait for mom and dad to return with my dad's cousins, Martha, John and Linda and then headed out to visit my Grandma Leftwich in Bedford Virginia. While visiting her, we were able to see my Aunt Kathy and Uncle Tim as well. My Grandma Leftwich has Alzhimers so visits are difficult since she really has no idea who many of us are. I think she still knows my dad and my Aunt Kathy, but from day to day you really never know if she even knows them. She has not known me for many years.

After our Bedford visit, we headed for Lynchburg Virginia where my Grandma Parker lives. After visiting at her "home" for a little while, we took her out to dinner at Golden Corral in Lynchburg ("G's Golden Corral" as the kids called it). After returning her to her room we left Lynchburg and headed for home. While visiting both Grandmothers we took our usual pictures. Can I tell you how difficult it is to get four kids, ages 5, 3, 3 and 2 to all look at the camera and smile all the while telling Grandma to look at the camera:). The best picture we had of the kids . . . all were smiling . . . all looked natural and happy . . . Grandma was talking in the photo. Oh well.

We returned to our house at 10:30 and the kids were passed out from about Madison Heights on. It was such a great, fun day; but a VERY long day!!

One of many!

This Easter we had our share of egg hunts! All together Ryan, Lydia and Emily participated in 5 egg hunts. We have decided to open a shop and sell candy to make a little extra cash:). Their candy stash is a little out of hand and of course it has taken all the will power I can muster to keep from eating ALL of it!!

Another one of our Spring Break activities at our center included an egg hunt. Each child at our center brought in 10 plastic eggs, filled with candy, stickers, toys, etc. One of my "mothers" and one of our center's older school-ager hid the eggs in our centers playground and the field beside the playground. Each age group had a little head start on the age group older. It worked out really well and in the end all of the kids ended up with an equal number of eggs. We hid roughly 325 eggs. It was such a great event! I love this job!!:)

Twins Club Egg Hunt

Today was our ARCMOM (Augusta/
Rockingham Counties Mothers of Multiples) annual egg hunt day. The kids first egg hunt of the season. We dug out our baskets from the closet and headed to Purcell Park. Once there we decided it was too wet from last night's rain so we headed over to ARCMOM's meeting place, the March of Dimes House. After two rounds of the kids racing around to find the plastic colored eggs filled with candy, stickers, tatoos and plastic rings; they were all satisfied with their findings. The little kids were more interested in the eggs than what was inside and got caught up in looking at the first egg they picked up and not hunting for anymore:). The ARCMOM egg hunt is always a fun event.