Easter Weekend

We spent Easter weekend at Mom and Dad Hoogstad's place, which is always fun for us. Despite the rain in the forecast, we had beautiful weather and spent a lot of time outside, which was especially fantastic since we had such a wet spring this year.

Mom loves to plan special activities for when her grandchildren come to visit, and this time was an easter egg hunt.  The eggs were huge and there was one per child so they each had to find one.  Here, Micah has spotted one hiding under a toy.

Danielle found hers already and was asking me to peel off the wrapper.

Poor Rachel was the last one to find an egg.  She was searching high and low!

Leah, all dressed up and showing me her egg.

Sara and Leah had discovered the last egg and were directing Rachel to it.

Success at last!

The best part is eating them, of course.

I was also very saddened to see the little trailer destroyed.  Kevin and I have used this trailer for the last 4 years for camping with our family.  This past winter, the heavy snow collapsed the overhang on Dad's shop, and "our" poor trailer was parked underneath.  That was the end of that!  I took some pictures to say goodbye to our old friend.  You can see the trailer in some of the older camping posts from this blog here, here and here.

We enjoyed an afternoon campfire with the family.

My beautiful Rachel, loving being outside!

Kelly-Lynn.

Micah, sneezing from the sun.  He's just like his daddy!

Ah, that's better.

Danielle fell and scraped her hand, so she was finding solace on Grandma's lap.

But she still smiles for her mama.

Mom and Dad's house is surrounded by sandy loam soil, which is great for the kids to play with.  Almost like being at the beach!

Micah will most definitely be needing a new winter coat next year.

Jeremy woke from his nap and joined us outside.

Daddy was going over fire safety rules again.  We can't be too careful!

We also got to drive Dad's ATV around a lot, but I didn't get pictures of that. All the kids got rides, too. It was a great weekend!