Easter

Saturday we colored eggs for Easter. Once we got everything set up and the girls out there, the fun began.

Annie LOVED it. Mostly because it involved putting things in water and unrestrained mess making. Notice her blue and red hands.

Soon, Annie realized that she could crack the eggs open, and eat some of what was inside. Mess-making, and food? Her two favorite things!

When we tried to prevent her from cracking every single egg, she got a little mad.

McKenzie was more interested in dancing to the music than coloring eggs, but she did get some egg-dying in.

 

 

We'll declare the egg-dying a success. Everyone had a fun time (especially Annie-blue-hands).

Easter morning loot:

The girls had a fun time hunting for eggs. Rachel was very nice about leaving some of the easy-to-find eggs for Annie to find.

 

The yearly Robin Egg lipstick picture:

The girls got these awesome Easter bunny teeth lollypops in their baskets. 

Grandma got Easter dresses and Easter hats for all the litle girls. So cute!

 

We had Easter dinner at our house, since we were out here for Ryan's blessing. Good food, good company, and good times for all. :)

 

 

 

 

All the Easter fun must have worn Annie out (all the chaos really wore everyone out, I think) because she grabbed her binky and her blanky and climbed into Ryan's bouncy seat.

 

 It was a happy Easter, for sure.

Georgia Knights' visit

Justin and his family came into town last Wednesday for the first ti,e since they moved away 5 years ago. We got right to "work" bonding with the cousins. We hadn't seen McKenzie (except via computer) since she was one week old. She sure is a cutie!

And so is Peyton, who we had never met in person. We went down to the park for some fun and she had a ball on the swings.

Annie and Kenzie had fun taking turns on the slide.

On Friday we went down to the zoo. It was super crowded, but we had fun anyway. Rachel decided to use her photography skillz:

Rachel, stylin' with her glasses, and Annie and McKenzie in the background checking out the zebras:

 

Here's a lovely picture of the rhino.

 

And in case you missed the treat we got to witness, here it is zoomed in:

 

We tried to grab some pictures of the girls all together. They weren't incredibly cooperative when we told them all to look at us and say cheese.

 

 

And here's more backs of heads, checking out the new elephant exhibit:

We also enjoyed some pool fun back at grandma and grandpa's house. McKenzie wasn't much into getting wet, but had fun from the outside.

It was a little too cold for Peyton's liking. But my girls had a blast.

And everyone had fun back on the trampoline.

 

 

 

Rachel made her own little balloon face from one of Grandpa's plastic gloves.

Peyton loved Rachel. She would smile and laugh whenever Rachel was up to her crazy antics. So cute!

There are so many pictures from their visit, we're splitting them up. So, there's more to come, whenever I get a chance to put them up.

Family pictures

Both of my brothers and their families were in town for Easter, so we took advantage of that and had Ryan's baby blessing on Sunday. Afterwards we attempted some family pictures outside the church. Here's the best one of everyone:

 

Our family:

With Grandma and Grandpa Knight:

Then the fun really started. We tried a Grandma and Grandpa with all the grandkids picture. Annie was a bit upset at first...

Then Justin took away McKenzie's binky, and it was her turn to cry. This is about the bet one we got--at least all the kids' heads are visible.

Rachel did a good job of holding Ryan. Luckily he was asleep and not squirmy. :)

Then on Monday we stepped up the level of torture for a professional family portrait. :) When we got out of the car Rachel asked, "Why are we at K-Mart?" We explained that Olan Mills was inside where we were getting our pictures taken with everyone. And then the tears started. "But pictures at Kmart take so looooong!" I think all the excitement and insanity of having all her cousins around for the weekend was wearing on her, so she was extra susceptible to having a melt down, and she had a hard time calming down. We went and looked at the Easter clearance section while we waited, and she calmed down a bit, but you can still see tears in her eyes in some of the pictures, especially the grandkid pictures. And without further ado, here's our family's picture:

Here's the whole family:

And here are a couple with just the grandkids. Note how Rachel is trying so hard to not cry, and Ryan is doing his best to cry his loudest.

 It turned out way better than you would have guessed with three 0-year-olds, and two 1-year-olds. And now we have lots of great pictures. :)