Texas Fun

We had a great time in Texas just being with family and friends.  We even got to baby sit Sam while the older children and parents went to a Rough Riders baseball game.

 

 We also went to a German restaurant in Plano which the kids loved---good food, a train going around the ceiling and the accordion music which Sam and Eli loved!

Easter with Texas Cousins

 We had a great St. Louis-based Easter with Pork Steaks, gooey butter cake and Panera bread (St. Louis Bread Company).  We celebrated Easter with lots of games, a tea party, a birthday and Easter egg hunts.

Easter with Warrens

 Holidays leave lots of posed photo opportunities.  We began the holiday with a surprise egg.  The weather was beautiful so the kids decided to "rest" outside.  Well, one had to stay in and wasn't really resting as you can see by the monitor.

The next day, Easter morning, we had a series of photos before the family came over.

Easter Cards

 Every now and then I like to send the grandchildren cards that I made despite not being very good at it.  I do have adequate craft supplies, a good sense of humor and not bad ideas, it's just the craftsmenship that is lacking.

I also like to make each family member a different card because I think a lot of the fun is sharing what each individual card says to parents and siblings.  For other cards I've made, click here.

The first are the cards for Anna, Eli and Sam (I did get some help on the jokes from the internet for these three)

Sam:  How do bunnies stay healthy?  They eggs-ercize

Eli:  Never tell an Easter egg a good joke! It may crack them up

Anna: Why was the Easter Bunny upset?  She was having a bad "hare" day (Anna has had a bad "hare" day this year when she cut her own hair).

 For Brett: Why did the egg like the baseball game?  It had egg-stra innings.  Here's some egg-stra money

For Davis: What do you call 5 male rabbits?  5 Bucks (not so much a joke as information---the joke is the money included)

 For Roman:  We hope this is Eggs-actly what you wanted.  (money included)

For Libby:  What does the Easter Bunny get for making a basket?  Two points like everyone else.

I hope they enjoy the cards but more importantly I hope they know that Grandma and Grandpa love them so much that Grandma even does crafts for them!

Grandchildren in Winter

No one will deny this has been a brutal winter---it really has cut into my time to visit with our children and grandchildren.  Fortunately in between storms, we did get to see all of them.  The Lewises came visit just before we left for the cruise with a gymnastics meet.  This handsome lad won 2 medals in vault and floor exercise.

After the cruise, we visited the Warrens who are always entertaining!

 

FINALLY, we were able to visit the Twenters----and got to see several basketball games.

 And we babysat while Rachel and Kyle went to a 80's themed party (Kyle above as Teen Wolf).  We then met Lewises at Bass Pro for a lunch before we headed home