easter weekend

a few weeks before easter my mom brought up the idea of us coming down to la so we could celebrate easter with the family.  i was torn because there was no doubt that i wanted to go.  but, now that eli is officially 2 we have 4 airplane tickets to buy.  that's a whole lot of money!  eventually, my mom (and heart) won out and we headed down to california. no complaints here :-)

after a few days of relaxing and hanging out with family, it was finally easter morning. the first thing we did was go to church with lola.  it's always nice to go back to cw where everyone feels like family.  i used to teach sunday school there and it amazes me how much the kids have grown.  i could hardly believe that these teenagers were the little 4-5 years old i used to read bible stories to.  time really does fly by!

after church everyone started piling in at my parents' house.  my mom (being the big party planner that she is) had a dress code.  the boys were requested to wear ties and the girls to wear hats.  well...the hat thing didn't really come to fruition but the little boys sure looked cute all decked out in their ties.

us...

my boys and their red pants!

lolo jun and garrett...

quin and auntie jerrylyn.  look at his smile!  doesn't it make you wanna squeal?

brothers...

boys, boys, and more boys and this isn't even all of them.  not pictured: tyler and eli (who was fast asleep with papa upstairs).

finally, the much anticipated easter egg hunt was about to begin.  almost ready!

and then they were off.  papa tried showing eli what to do.  find an egg, put it in the basket.  seems simple and fun right?  well, apparently eli was still a little pissed that we woke him up from his nap.  every time papa put an egg in his basket he'd grab it and throw it right back out while saying "no papa!"  poor grandma spent all this time (not to mention money) and this is how it goes.  oh well...it was still super cute and we at least got a good laugh.

happy easter everyone!