Our grand vacation day 3.... Happy Easter!

Happy Easter from sunny Texas!

how the littles spent most of their day

great grandma and her oldest great grandson

first time meeting great-grandma

first time meeting great-grandma.... her namesake

four loving generations

Happy Easter?

With all of us still exhausted from yesterday's events and all of us excited about what the end of the week holds for us, I can't say that most of us were too thrilled about celebrating Easter this year. It definitely wasn't the same with Punk and Peanut refusing to be here with us and it didn't feel like a holiday without a family dinner. But I also didn't want SweetPea remembering Easter as something thrown together in a hotel room, especially since she feels the spirit of the Easter Bunny, Santa Claus and the tooth fairy so deeply in her little heart.

Happy Easter ( a wee bit early lol)

I can say though that we made sure to deliver. SweetPea asked for one thing and one thing only... an Ember Flicker Flame Lalaloopsy. We searched high and low and could only find the miniature one... which was not what she wanted. So, with two of us spending an afternoon making phone calls, we managed to track down the elusive ginger that she wanted and scored for her. And since we are such awesome parents, we made sure to pick up two other miniatures too that we don't see  ever.... Holly Sleigh Bells and Snowy Fairest. So I can attest to the fact that we had a THRILLED little girl come her Easter morning when she saw her big Loopsy and all four of her new small ones.

PorkChop, with his affinity for trains, trucks, cars and helicopters, picked his own Easter surprise out too... a Batman helicopter. Batman is the only cartoon character that I have seen him gravitate too, which surprises me since he has never "seen" Batman. I am thinking that the family genes are just strong in this one and that we managed to pass our obsession down to him.

Even though Peanut and Punk were a no show this morning, the Easter Bunny didn't leave out the older children. They are/were pleasantly surprised with a set of two dvd players for the car for our upcoming vacation along with a new assortment of  movies, cards, and carry-along games.

Its hard to believe that in one week, we will BE in Texas. That we will have already done three other states. That we will be into our first full week of road tripping. All that really tells me though is that I need to get my behind in gear and get packing/organizing for this trip.