Easter Weekend

This weekend we made the trip to Delmar, IA and Carrollton, IL to visit the Powers and Schmidt families over Easter weekend. We were in Delmar first on Saturday to visit my Grandma Powers. We have more pictures from the weekend, we just need some people to email them to me....hint, hint.

just another picture of Megan in her Hawkeye's outfit, she's getting too big for it so this might be the last photo in it.
Grandma Powers wanted to hold Megan right away when we got there.
Abby was being a little shy, but at least she is in the photo.
One of the activities was Easter egg dying for the Easter bunny. Laura and Christine showed up for lunch and I'm not sure who had the most fun dying eggs.
These eggs also had a sparkle paint for them, so Abby enjoyed decorating.


After that Tim wanted to take Abby fishing with her Sponge Bob fishing pole, so here they are practice casting and reeling.
Of course Abby said "I do it myself" within 2 minutes.
Here they are out on the pond with Pat. Abby's form of fishing is just reeling in the bobber as soon as it's cast in, so not a lot of opportunity for fish to bite.
There were fish in the pond though, this was a nice sized blue gill that Tim caught.
Abby is still trying. She fished for about 30-45 minutes. Not bad for a 2 year old.


Sunday morning the Easter Bunny remembered Abby was staying at the farm.
Next we headed to Carrollton, IL for the Schmidt Easter gathering and bridal shower for Tracey Young who is marrying Tim's cousin Phil at the end of May. This is Lucas and Abby. Lucas is a couple months older than Abby.
They had an Easter egg hunt for just Lucas and Abby and they had a good time.
Abby was all over the eggs. She had 23 before we made her start giving them to Lucas. She had done hunts before and this was Lucas' first time so she needed to share.
Still gathering - basket is overflowing.


Later we headed back to Columbia and ended our whirl wind weekend travels. We were exhausted but glad to be home and the kids traveled extremely well so we couldn't have asked for more. Next on the agenda is Tim's P.E. exam so there will be quiet at the Schmidt house so he can study. So who knows where I'll be going with the girls.......stay tuned.

Also - congratulations to Jim and Bridget who are pregnant with their first child.
Good luck!