Easter 2016

This post is a bit belated as I've been busy with Treasurer duties for the Albuquerque Mothers of Twins Club and of course our potty training chaos, but I wanted to do a short post about Easter 2016 before the details were forgotten.

My mom wanted to come to ABQ for a short visit, and it just so happened that Easter weekend was the best time for her. She was supposed to fly in on Saturday night, but unfortunately her first flight was delayed which meant she would not make her connection, so she ended up rescheduling for early Sunday morning. Although she had to leave her house super early on Sunday, the new flight ended up working just fine for us as she landed around 9:30 a.m., which meant we could pick her up on our way to church on Easter morning.

Alexis, Jack, and Faith dressed for church and ready to pick up Grandma from the airport

Since we started potty training the weekend before Easter, we decided to keep the kids in the church service with us instead of putting them in the nursery. This was our first time in a public place since we started potty training, so we weren't sure how the kids would do and we didn't want to add the burden of running our kids to the bathroom since our church nursery tends to be really busy. Also, I figured the kids would be happier in church with Grandma than hanging out in the nursery. Although it was hard for me to pay attention to the sermon due to running kids to the bathroom (Grandma took turns running them there as well), overall everyone did well being relatively quiet and content during church and we didn't have any potty accidents!

After church I quickly set up a backyard Easter egg hunt for the kids while Micah made a simple lunch. Before letting the kids search for the eggs I gave them their Easter baskets. I definitely didn't get them much for their baskets, but it was still fun to fill them and the kids always enjoy getting new stuff. They all enjoyed hunting for eggs, although Faith was definitely the most into it.

Stickers, socks, Olaf suckers, and an egg filled with jelly beans. Our dyed eggs are in the background and the kids also colored the white eggs at the bottom of their baskets.

Jack

Faith 

Alexis

Checking out their loot

After the kids and Grandma napped (she was exhausted from her early morning flight), we made an easy Easter dinner of ham, green beans, red skin potatoes, rolls, and fruit, and we had cheesecake for dessert. We then went on a walk around the neighborhood, which the kids thoroughly enjoyed.

Walking down a trail in our neighborhood

It was definitely a low-key Easter, but it was great to have my mom in town as it made the day more memorable.