Relaxing Saturday as a Fam

Today was a blessing.  Everyone slept in late (well 9am), and then we made omelets to get our day started.  We did our Easter egg advent that told the story of Jesus from the last supper to the resurrection.  The kids always enjoy opening up each numbered egg and seeing what is inside.  Cade's favorite was the rock one as he always says he has to "work out with the egg first".  This is followed by him lifting the egg up and down and flexing his muscles.  Caelin loves the egg with the purple cloth in it.  Mainly cause she says "I love purple" and then claps when she opens it.  Regardless of the jokes and kid stories along the way, I take great joy in knowing our kids know that Easter is about Jesus and his resurrection and not so much the Easter bunny, eggs, candy, etc.  To hear Cade retell the story and watch him act it out, just makes me one proud Mommy!  Then we decided to play outside for a bit which involved hunting plastic eggs (again), slip and slide, and water games with the hose.  This is where I pause to say our sweet little Caelin can have a very strong attitude.  Cade and Caelin have grown to be best friends most of the time, but even best friends have their spats.  At one point Caelin ran up to Cade, screamed, "No you get wet", and shoved the water in his face.  But don't worry, Cade fought back by launching a plastic egg at her head as soon as the water cleared his eyes.  I even caught Caelin pointing and laughing at Cade when he attempted the slip and slide and wound up doing a belly flop.  Oh how I love these two little ones.  Of course Baylor was in the midst of it all.  He ran around trying to protect them (from each other I guess), and loved getting wet in the process.  Once we had enough water play, we came inside for dinner and to make homemade ice cream from leftover strawberries.  Daddy also enjoyed microwaving peeps and showing the kids how big they grow.  Sometimes I think I have 3 kids!  We finished up our evening with reading the Easter story from the children's Bible and then watched the Veggie Tales Easter movie.  It was a fun filled day and needless to say our house is extremely quiet now (except for the occasional snoring).  Can't wait to have more fun tomorrow and spend family time with everyone on the Hall side.  Happy Easter!