Easter Weekend

We spent Easter weekend in Michigan with family.  We also used the long weekend to do some house hunting (see previous post).  It was a nice weekend though, we got a small glimpse of nice weather and got to see both sides of the family!

All ready to go to Michigan for the weekend!

Is that nice weather we detect?!  Fire up the grill!!

We spent some time in Hudsonville at my Grandparent's house with the DeKruyter clan.  Every year my mom still gets us all Easter baskets, we would all throw a fit if she stopped.  And every year she hides them and it is this race to see who can find a basket first.  You just do NOT want to be the last person to find it, because then you are total loser.  Well guess who was the last one this year.....me.  Sad.  Technically I was the second to last one, but I found it and announced it too soon, so then Allyson's boyfriend (Mike) came over snatched it from me!  He's bigger, he won the battle.  So off I went to go find the last basket while everyone laughed at me.

The soon to be hubby and wifey!  Wedding plans are coming along nicely and we are SOOOO excited for their October wedding :)  (Impossible to believe I will have a ONE YEAR OLD for their wedding....)

Briana even got an Easter present, a bunch of books!  She isn't really into having books read to her yet, she just tries to eat them and if you don't let her eat the book she gets mad and arches her back.  We are just saying forget the books for now....

Kid is six months old and this was probably the longest period of time she had spent outside....really depressing.  She liked it though, she loved watching all the commotion.  

Then we filled 100 Easter eggs and hid them all over outside for my little cousins.  Hiding eggs is SO fun.  We had some advanced level hiding for sure!

We spent the rest of the weekend in Grant with the DeLange crew.  For Easter Sunday they had a sunrise service, breakfast, and then another service.  I was able to attend part of the sunrise service and the breakfast....fail.  Brie was just NOT having it.  She needed to nap SO bad, and is the lightest sleeper in the world (totally gets that from me).  So I ended taking her back to Alec's parents house (all the way across the street, haha).  

Our nephew Gage all dressed up like a little stud for the occasion:

Auntie Lauren giving Brie some Easter hugs :)

We all gathered at Anne and Rob's house for lunch.  Brie and Evelyn were SO funny together, both were reaching out for each other.  Brie got ahold of her feet and was so determined to stick them in her mouth.

Making poke cake:

Jordan's new toy:

Brie was a pretty good traveler.  She had a couple fits, which are pretty horrible to deal with in the car when there is really nothing you can do about it.  We certainly will NOT miss making that long drive all the time like we do now.  I don't even want to know how many times we have driven to and from.

Looking forward we are going back for one more weekend end of April for my good friend Julia's wedding. Then the next weekend we move!  Lot's of packing needs to get done between now and then....