Easter Weekend 2014

The nice thing about having a big family is that our holidays get stretched out over multiple days with multiple get togethers and celebrations - which also means super long blog posts!  This year our Easter started with the traditional Easter bunny picture.  Barry had to be in the picture because the bunny couldn't hold Ty and I hadn't showered and was in no shape to be photographed.  I was so surprised Sawyer was so into it!

Quite different from last year!!

On Friday afternoon we took off for Yoakum - Ty's first trip.  We spent the afternoon playing outside, complete with gymnastics lessons from Aunt Cara, planting flowers with Grandma, swinging with cousins, cascarones, an Easter egg hunt and decorating cookies/eating sprinkles.

Proof Ty was there:

Saturday morning we went over to Grandma Cowen's house to dye eggs, eat and hunt for more eggs.

Saturday night we came back to our house.  The Easter bunny visited and Sawyer was so excited about her fishing game and new glasses when she woke up in the morning.

After church, we went over to my parents for lunch.  We wanted to do something easy and my dad wanted to use his new grill, so we decided to do a grilled BYO pizza lunch that was soooooo delicious. We spent the afternoon outside eating and watching the girls play in the freezing cold kiddie pool - it was the perfect end to a wonderful weekend!

That night I left Ty for the first time to go to the Rocket's game.  Sawyer fell asleep at 6:00 on the way home from my parents and was out for the night, so Barry and Ty had some guy time.  I got this picture shortly after I left...I think Ty enjoyed the extra attention from Daddy…