Happy Easter to all of our family and friends!

This marks the end of spring break. The girls and I have tomorrow off for Easter Monday, but it is back to school on Tuesday. We are also only 13 days away from Ashley’s birthday. This is a big deal of course!

Spring Break did not turn out as planned, but it was still good. We accomplished many of the same goals. We drove around, we played with a boy cousin, we slept in, we watched videos, we played video games. We just did it in Illinois. One of our days was spent playing with Caleb. We dug out the Little People sets that Kayla and Ashley had loved so much as little girls. We had saved them all, because they are really not “boy” or “girl” toys, and being all plastic means they are durable. We brought over a few things to see what Caleb thought.

He liked them!

He played so nicely for hours with the toys we brought.

So, we dug around deeper and found out bigger box of Little People. We picked up 5 more 58qt storage boxes, and separated the people into sets at Mom’s house. This way, she can pull out a different box each time Caleb visits. He won’t make an overwhelming mess, and the toys will feel new a lot longer.

Here we are sorting out the people, followed by tired girls and 6 boxes of people sets!

Caleb will be a very busy little boy!

Easter Sunday was busy at church. Ashley had class, but Kayla’s grade stayed in the service. It was a good service, although Kayla realized she had outgrown her dresses. We had to make do with the one dress that fit her. Then we realized that she had no tights! So….she wore a pair of MINE!!!!!! Yes, she is getting THAT TALL that she could start raiding my things. Of course, stretchy tights are easy to share. But still!!! Ashley had a new outfit.

We went to Mom’s house for Easter ham. We got to see Aunt Lillian and Grandma. Kayla played clarinet for everyone.

You can really see how tall Kayla is getting. We had to change our arrangement because she was blocking Kevin!

We send out good thoughts to Brendan for good progress with his new challenge to upgrade to a “wireless” version! We send out good thoughts to Gramma for her knee. We send out good thoughts to all of our other family who are not feeling so great.