Easter Fun

On Easter Sunday, Phil's brother and SIL, invited us to come to Omaha for Easter.  After mass, we headed that way.  Raye had her family there too.  After a delicious lunch, there was a little egg hunt for the kids.  It was so fun watching my nephews and niece hunt for their eggs. 

Can't believe we are in shorts this Easter!!

Raye and Mary

Easter Morning Pictures

Olivia looks so much taller than me here, but she's wearing huge wedges.

Easter Egg Hunt

Our neighbor asked Ruth and Clare to join them at their church's Easter Egg Hunt.  It had been years since we've gone to one so it was pretty darn exciting.  It was a beautiful morning for the hunt.  I can't remember a nicer Easter weekend.

Ruth with her two friends

Waiting patiently to begin the hunt

5,000 eggs were scattered in yard

32 eggs were the limit so everyone had a chance to get eggs. 

Local Celebrity

Last Friday, meteorologist Jeriann Ritter, from NBC 13 came to my first grade teams' classrooms to share her knowledge about weather.  The classes were pretty excited to have her come and talk about tornadoes.  Kids love to hear about storms.  Jeriann showed the students an actual video on a torndado taken by a storm chaser. 

Talking about cold/warm fronts and high/low pressures

Teammate Kim, Jeriann and myself

Softball has Begun

Clare is in full swing of softball.  Her rec team(Twins) has started practice, her travel team has started their spring league games(weekends) and tournaments on the weekends will be here soon.  About 3 nights of the week are spent at the fields practicing.  It is a good thing we live less than a mile by the softball fields.

10U Johnston Purple Team

A Trip to Ottumwa

Spring Break seems so long ago, but I was able to sneak away to my home town of Ottumwa with two of my girls.  We haven't been there since Christmas.  While we were home, we had a nice visit with my mom, grandma, went out for lunch, shopped and of course we stopped for ice cream at Graham's.  It is the BEST ice cream place in town.  It totally beats Dairy Queen. 

The girls with their great-grandma, 93.

Visit from the DeGabriele's

We are all on spring break here and just hanging out.  Nothing big planned but we had some visitors today.  My cousin Michelle and her children wanted to come visit.  We planned a day full of activities for the kids.  We started off with GlowGolf.  I've heard about this fairly new attraction but had never been.  Figured it would be a great thing to do inside since the weather in March unpredictable.

Then it was time to eat.  We ate lunch at Fuddruckers.  It had been a LONG time since we had eaten there, and it's a place that isn't in Cedar Falls.  Plus they make awesome shakes.

Since we were going to take the kids to a trampoline place next, we needed to let everyone's food settle.  Fuddruckers is right by the mall, so we walked around there for awhile.

The boys were busy playing this game system while we girls walked around.

Our final stop was SkyZone.  This place is a hit and was BUSY with it being spring break.  We had to set a jump time and return an hour later to jump.

Watch me mom!

Playing dodge ball

Andrew getting some air to dunk.

All hot and sweaty

My cousin Michelle and I

Our day went so fast.  I'm glad we were able to get together before both of our schedules get super busy with sports this spring and summer.