Easter Weekend!

It was an enjoyable weekend spent with the Richardson Crew. Most arrived Thursday evening, we ordered pizza's and just played catch up on all the happenings with each other. We met baby Ty for the first time and is he a cutie! He's is the chubbiest little guy, big chunky cheeks and short chunky legs. Very happy and content baby. When Darcie arrived it was quite a shock because although we had seen her in August and she had lost quite a bit of weight, she had lost even more since then and looked great. She has lost 100# by going to Weight Watchers and is still trying to lose more. She looked like a different person. We girls got up early on Friday and headed to the nail salon. We all got manicures and pedicures. It was so relaxing. They opened the salon early so we all could come in together before the Friday crowds started. It was great having to whole place to ourselves. After we were done there we shopped just a little until it was time for lunch and then headed to Hacienda for lunch. We enjoyed good conversation without any little interruptions if you know what I mean. We had one more stop to make after lunch because the Easter Bunny needed a little help with his shopping. We came home and relieved the Daddies from their duties and the little ones rested and took naps. We then all got together for dinner. As always we had a ton of food. We always end up with more food than we need but I would rather have too much than not enough. The remainder of the crew arrived Friday evening including Paul's girlfriend Emma! We haven't seen her in a close to 3 years. Her and Paul were apart for probably a year while she was in college and Paul move to Washington D.C., and then her family moved to New York so she wasn't around anymore. It was really great to see her and she is just doing great. She is now getting ready to start school in Pennsylvania to become a physician's assistant. Saturday we headed out to the fairgrounds where the Lion's Club was hosting the annual Easter Egg Hunt. The kid's had fun! After the Easter Egg Hunt we took the kid's to the the Learning Center(one of the two business my sister owns) to play.The kid's love playing there. It's a therapy center and a preschool. The specialize in providing therapy for autistic children but also do speech, physical and occupational therapy. They do a special kind of therapy called, ABA, it's proving to really make a difference for children with autism. We then went to the mall to get our traditional picture with the Easter Bunny. The kids all did great. It was the first year in quite a while that not one child was crying or had to be held in order to get them in the picture. Then guess what, it was time for lunch!! We had lunch at Harvey Hinkelmeyers which was great as always. After lunch we headed home for egg painting. We colored 36 eggs and the kid's had a blast. We just hung out and relaxed until it was time to prepare dinner. The guys hung out visiting and playing some games. Usually they like to hang out on the farm but it was freezing cold all weekend, not much fit for being outdoors. There was some card playing after dinner. The kids were exhausted after the busy day and no naps. Everybody slept good that night. The Grandparent's hid Easter eggs all over the yard on Sunday and the kids had fun hunting for them. When Aden and Gracie woke up Sunday morning Aden's first words out of his mouth were "Gracie let's go see what the Easter Bunny filled our baskets with". After everyone left on Sunday we kept busy getting everything back in order again. We're looking forward to July when we'll see them again for Heather and Jeremy's wedding.