The Speer Family: April 2009

What a wonderful weekend! We were so lucky to have Papa, Gigi, Aunt Jamie, Uncle Bobby, and Kayden come down to celebrate with us! We got some free labor out of Papa and Bobby-the three big boys finished our fence on Saturday! Now our entire backyard has been refenced and looks sooo much better--now if I could just keep the neighbor kids from climbing on it =)

It's a bird, it's a plane, it's the Dynamic Duo!

The egg hunt is on! The weather on Sunday was supposed to be rainy and cold, so we did the egg hunt on Saturday. Gigi was enjoying the warm weather while watching the kids run around--or rather watching Kayden and Mason. Once Max found one egg and realized it had something in it, he was content with just the one.

Queen of the Clubhouse

Papa and Gigi got the kids new Spiderman Underoos for Easter. They were all three thrilled to get to be super heroes even in their sleep!

The Bunny ate the carrot! Can you tell Mason was still pretty much asleep, but my curious little boy had to know if the carrot was gone.

All the kids lined up with their loot...looks like the Bunny went overboard again this year.

Max and HIS Bobby. Papa and Bobby were the first two people Max asked for when he woked up nearly every morning. The rest of us might get a couple of kisses or a hug, but Bobby got the lion's share!

Dying Easter eggs...

Our sweet babies. We didn't even tell Kayden and Mason to do that. We asked them to scoot together for the pic and Kayden snuggled up to Mason and he put his arm around her. It was so sweet...

Their normal, screwball selves...

One of our new Easter traditions since moving to Texas is something called cascarones. They are basically hollowed out eggshells filled with confetti and dyed. You crack them over each other's heads and confetti goes every where. I'm not really sure who had more fun with this, the kids or the adults, but I'll just say my husband owes me after what he did to me with those eggs! There was confetti EVERYWHERE!

On Monday, Kayden had an appointment to get her four year pics done with the photographer that we usually use. Unfortunately, that fell through. Not to be daunted by such a little thing as no photographer, we loaded up the kids and headed to a beautiful park in University Park where Jamie played photographer and got the kids' pics. Mason was much more interested in the worm he found.

After lunch, the girls (me, Gayla, Jamie) took the kids to the park to run off a little steam before nap. Mason scaling the rock wall...

Max and Kayden are our more cautious children. Kayd wasn't sure about all that big stuff Mason was climbing on, but she definitely loved helping her baby cousin figure out how to navigate the preschool climbers.