OMG-A NEW POST!! (Easter weekend)

We had a fun Easter last week, even though we celebrated it a day early . Caitlin was home from Hope and Jillian, Brit, Austin and Adrianna came up to celebrate with us. We missed Jacki and John, but hopefully we will all be together soon.

We made homemade pizzas on Friday night, which were delicious!

Austin wore a Mount Union College t-shirt (Brad's alma mater) so Brad put on one of his MUC t-shirts so we could take a picture-how cute!


Afterwards, of course Austin had to play Wii- I think he is addicted, but he is so good at many of the games! I believe he may be a future sports star!


Caitlin really enjoyed holding Adrianna, who is going to be her godchild at the baptism this Sunday...

except when she huddled under the afghan with Jillian :)


Brad took Austin on a tour of the White-Rodgers Training van he had for the week.


We bought Austin and Adrianna a few small Easter presents-some books and some U-M items- a hat for Austin and a shirt-and-pants outfit for Adrianna, as well as some candy for Austin.

We went to the "Big House" to get a tour of the locker room and see the Spring game, but the lines for the locker room tour were too long and it was just too cold for the kids that early in the morning, so the Gills headed back to the house.
Brad and I stayed and went on a prearranged tour of the new luxury boxes under construction-no picture-taking was allowed on the tour. We could see the water tower by our house from them.

We stayed for the first play of the game, but then we left to head home and visit with everyone. It had warmed up by then and the stadium was packed.

Brad cooked "beer-butt" chicken on the grill for dinner and it was delicious!

Later in the afternoon, we dyed Easter eggs (Austin is wearing my Grandma Teresa's old housecoat to protect his clothes).

Austin really enjoyed all the different colors.

When the eggs were dry, we decorated them with Sesame Street stickers that Jillian brought.


Austin even made up a little "Easter Egg Bowling" game!



We also made "cake pops" that everyone loved-Caitlin is insisting that we make them again tomorrow (she is home this weekend for the baptism).

Then the Gills headed home after a fun-filled time!

Easter Sunday itself was pretty laid back. The Easter bunny hid a few scattered candy-filled eggs for Caitlin that she hunted for before Mass. She had to look under things and over things and behind things...

but she found them all :-)

Buddy also found his treats pretty quickly, and immediately gobbled them up!

Later in the afternoon, Brad took Caitlin back to Hope College. Buddy was sad after everyone left-he loves having his family together.