Happy Easter

Our weekend of fun continued yesterday with a combined Easter and birthday party. All the local family, and our friends who have become family, gathered after church to do what we usually do - let the kids entertain us, snack, and talk - especially about legal issues (with 5 lawyers in the gathering, it's a bit hard to escape legal talk). Sophia loved wearing her fancy dress we bought for her baptism. She refused to take it off all day and even paired it with her rain boots for a while.

After church, the Easter Bunny had visited our house leaving baskets and lots of eggs hidden all around. Sophia and the boys had a great deal of fun finding them and then trading some of the presents inside so there was a fair distribution of all the loot. We were quite proud of how well they did that without any complaining.

Yesterday we had 4 birthdays to celebrate: Sophia's, Jessica and Gabe's are March 25 and Alex's which is in early April. We got all the names on the cake, and candles for Sophia, Gabe & Alex. They even managed to blow them out together without any spitting or lighting themselves on fire.

Presents were enjoyed by many. It seemed Sophia's favorites were the tent that Grandma Darla made her and a crawl-through tunnel from our friend Therese and Ellie. Even my father had some fun with the tunnel - that's him standing in it on the right. She got lots of beautiful clothes, which she was less excited about than I was. (I love it when grandmas buy her clothes, they buy nicer things than I would.) There were also several Dr. Seuss books, who Sophia has just started to enjoy.

By the end of the day Sophia was exhausted and refused to pose for pictures, hiding her face or giving us dirty looks. After 3 days of non-stop fun, it's no surprise that she was just done with it all. It was a very fun weekend.