Easter Weekend - 2012

We went to Illinois for Easter this year - the weekend included dying Easter eggs, family time, playing outside, hiding Easter eggs, hunting for Easter eggs, and our first experience at a hibachi restaurant - all good times! Enjoy!

With splashy dyes we decided to go topless, haha.

 

Or markers. :)

 

 

A little fun in the backyard.

 

 

 

 

Easter morning -
waiting for Daddy to see if the Easter bunny came.

 Looks like it!

 

 

 

 

 

  

The Easter Bunny may have overestimated
the amount of eggs necessary for two girls. ;)

 

 

March Easter Egg Hunt

Toward the end of March we went to an Easter Egg Hunt at a friend's church. The kids were in groups by age, so Casey walked ran around with Mallory and I followed Abby around while she figured out what this Easter egg thing was really about.

 

 

 

 

Aubrey and Mallory checking out their haul.

What candy? :)

Here are two extra pictures I found at the end of March. :)

I asked Mallory to go get some jammies
and she came back from her room in this fancy outfit. 

 

 

Tidbits from Christmas

We started the Christmas season with Mallory's program at her school. 

She sang 3 songs with her class: 

Rudolph the Red-nosed Reindeer

Frosty the Snowman 

Sleigh Ride

She had a lot of fun and did a great job singing and doing the hand motions, even if she was the only one in her group of 10 kids that didn't want to wear the Rudolph nose. :)

 

First we had a little fun with Grandpa & Grandma Lynn.

Waiting patiently for her turn to open...

Princesses for Mallie

Tools for Daddy

A kitty keyboard for Abby

Sewing supplies for Mommy (not pictured!)

And who wouldn't enjoy a little Tequila for the holidays?

Then we traveled four hours south for some more cousins and Christmas fun. 

Christmas Eve Mass

I love this picture of Abby taken after Mass

and it totally reminded me of THIS picture of Mallory taken after Mass in 2009.

Saying goodnight to Ryann on Christmas Eve

(matching jammies, tee hee)

Cookies & milk for Santa, 

carrots for the reindeer

Christmas morning.............

A jammies picture, but not without tears...

We had a fun-filled Christmas day! A whirlwind of gifts, food and family (too much of a whirlwind to take many pictures appparently...)

After a wonderful weekend, we headed back to WI to wrap a few more presents and celebrate one more time with Grandma and Papa Butschli. 

Everyone can use a few Cooties in their life, right?

And one can never have too many princesses...

...or kisses from Grandma

...or hugs from their sister

...or smiles from a cousin

It was definitely a very merry Christmas around here!
(and January has been pretty merry too!)