The girls seeing what they got inside the eggs

Gavin and Owen...buddies!

Cutie Gav and his mama Erica

Aidan's loot

Sofia checking out her egg

Check out how full his bag is...

then look at how full Bella's is!

A precariously placed egg

Cousin Gavin hunting some eggs

Sofia found some!

Owen, I think there might be one behind you!

Grandma and Clayton checking out the living room before the hunt. See the three eggs on the stairs?!

Bridgit hiding the eggs around the room

The kids making compost in my veggie garden with the unhardboiled hardboiled eggs

Eww...slimed!

That is hilarious!

Yuck!

Knockers! It's a family tradition (thanks Geigy) to play knockers on Easter morning with our hardboiled eggs. I made the eggs on Friday while making dinner and thought I made them according to plan but after dying them, hiding them and hunting them we didn't realize that my actual boiling of the eggs didn't result in hardboiling. Bella found out the hard way when the egg exploded on her when Aidan "lost" the game. YUCK! It's payback for Bella throwing up on him at LAX airport!

Getting ready for knockers

After the hunt

On the prowl for some easter eggs

Heading down the stairs Easter morning to hunt for eggs

The basket from the bunny

Owen getting ready to dye easter eggs. The other kids weren't as excited to watch me get everything ready but Owen sure was!

When we came home to after our cruise. Our car was parked at a valet airport parking lot the week we were gone. A car crossed a very busy road run up over the curb and went through the lots fence crashing into our car and another car. This is the damage that it left. Nearly $4500 and counting...

Bella loves reading Calvin and Hobbes...so much so that she fell asleep while reading

Cuteness

Ta Da!

We had a great spring break taking a Mexican Riviera cruise with Rachel's parents. It was a wonderful time with ports in Cabo, Puerto Vallarta and Mazatlan. Unfortunatly, our camera died on the third day so we only have pictures up to that point. More pictures to come since we had our own papparazzi on board with us (my parents) so check back in a few days and see what happened on the rest of the trip! Enjoy the pictures...we certainly enjoyed our first cruise with the kids.

More limo pictures

The guys in the back of the limo figuring out the controls

Pictures in the limo on the way to the cruise terminal

The cruise ship had a library stocked with kids books. It was a total lifesaver for those downtimes in the room.

The parade that Bella was in.

The Adventure Ocean circus parade and talent show

Bella and her new friend (the tallest and the smallest) Ashley, who is only a year older than Bella. Bella was the magician's assistant that disappeared.

Our dining table was right next to this window. It was a lifesaver! Owen hasn't been the easiest baby/child so fancy sit down dining has become a thing of the past. He hasn't had much practice and the other two are a little rusty at it too. They did as good as could be expected but seemed to like to take little breaks from the fancy dinner to hang out in the porthole window. We even saw a whale swimming by the boat towards the end of the cruise. A delightful surprise!