Spring Break 2012

The girls had spring break the last week in March.  I took them up to Wisconsin for a few days.  We kept busy before we returned home on Saturday so the girls could sing in church on Palm Sunday.  We headed up on Wednesday and our first visit was with my cousins Terra and Lisa and their kids.  Out of my 43 first cousins, I was closest with these 2.  

We left Terra's and went to the AWANA Grand Prix at my parents' small country church.  It was fun to see how they do it compared to the fancy event at our church.  When we got back to the house, Morgan got busy playing with some of Uncle Luke's farm equipment from his early years.  My mom and dad are in the process of cleaning out their attic of 30+ years of "stuff".

On Thursday, we visited with my friend Kim and her crew of kids.  Lisa and her 3 joined us for awhile too.  Kim trimmed the girls' hair for the first of their usual 2 haircuts a year.

That evening Nonny and the girls did some baking for Uncle Luke so they could take his favorite cookies to him when we visited Madison on Friday.  She gave them aprons to use when they are at her house.

Friday we met Uncle Luke for a yummy lunch at Olive Garden before hitting the mall for some shopping.  The girls still needed something new to wear for Easter and we found a few other good spring deals.  When Morgan came downstairs on Friday morning she said to Nonny, "What's for breakfast, blueberry coffeecake?"  So we had to stop and buy some blueberries and when we got home they made coffeecake.  Take note of one of Morgan's new purchases, Hello Kitty sunglasses.  Always helpful for cooking!    

Another attic treasure was the stack of animal puzzles I can remember putting together as a kid.  Morgan and  Nonny put this one together Saturday morning.

Before we left on Saturday, cutout cookies were on the agenda and a small Easter Egg hunt.  The sunglasses made another cooking appearance.

Let the hunt begin!

I don't know how many times they walked right by some of their eggs!

Checking out the treasure

 Easter Baskets from Papa and Nonny

After our quick Easter celebration we hit the road for the trip home.  We delivered a few cookies to Ashley, Erik and Ian before we headed to get ready for the big day of singing at church.