Easter!

For Easter this year my brother Matt invited us down to Lansing. Mark was going to be on the road and with Peter in Maryland it would have been just my mom and me (and kids) for Easter. We drove down Saturday morning with a stop in Grand Rapids for lunch. When we arrived at Matt's Eric was up and the three kids went right into play mode! They all got along amazingly well. Plus they made a mess of all of Eric's toys.After letting the kids play for a while we drove over to my dad's place for dinner. It wasn't ready when we got there so the kids had time to play at grandpa's...not a good idea. Think breakables, lots of breakables...and all in the reach of the children. Plus someone found jelly beans that were constantly being dropped on the floor and mushed into the rugs.Then an office chair was brought out. Sure it was fun to push around and give rides on...until it was pushed into a pedestal holding a glass flower thing. Crash!

Dinner was very nice and with three kids a lot ended up on the rug under the table. This place was not kid proofed! Back at Matt's Eric was getting a bath, pretty soon Henry was in there and then Irene. Once the kids were in bed the adults sat and talked. It was great to have adult conversation!Sunday morning Kaye made us breakfast and my dad joined us. Henry devoured all the strawberries he could reach. Then it was time to get on our party clothes! Everyone was dressed so nicely and even Irene was disguised as an angel ;-)

Eric and Marne

Best Friends

Best Buddies

Henry loves his Uncle Matt

Pretty Princess

Grandpa and Henry

Kaye's mom and one of her brothers and his family was joining us for lunch. Her brother has three girls, the youngest is about ten and Henry thought she was the greatest thing ever. Lunch was super yummy! Kaye's mom made ham...but it was the best ham ever. I usually don't care for ham that much but whatever she did to it made it taste...not like ham! It was terrific ;-) Henry and Irene ate really well, lots of polish sausage.

While we had been waiting for everyone to show up I had gotten sooooo tired. I could hardly speak coherently. I knew we had a long drive back and we would have to leave shortly after eating. I was disappointed that we couldn't stay longer and chat with everyone. But the kids were tired too and we needed to go. In the short distance between Matt's house and the corner Irene had fallen asleep and Henry was out soon after.

It was a fantastic weekend and I hope we'll get together soon. It's great to know the kids play well together.

Butter lambs...Matt cut up a red jelly bean to give it crazy eyes