Easter Weekend

Easter was a full weekend for the Barrios family. Friday was the day we landed back in Austin from our week long whirlwind trip to California. We didn't get home until almost 8 o'clock at night. Just enough time to unload the car and stretch our legs before bedtime. The next day we went over to our friend's the Byrd's house to celebrate the little Misters' 1st birthday party. Graham and Killian (or Gam and Ken as Leila calls them) had a Yo Gabba Gabba party, Leila thought that was pretty cool. Leila was pretty obsessed with the balloons the whole time, Emmalene was happy playing on a blanket with her friend Mikaela who is almost the same age as her, just one month younger.





After the party we loaded the kids in the car and headed down to Houston. We made it down there in record time, no traffic! We arrived at Oma and Pops' house around 6:30 and started coloring Easter eggs. Leila didn't quite get the concept and at first tried to eat the little color pellet (they kind of look like smarties) then tried to drink the colored water. Finally she got the idea and colored a few eggs.





Sunday morning the kids discovered their baskets that the Easter Bunny left for them. Leila and Emmalene got books, candy and bracelets. Auntie hooked Leila up with some stick-um earrings, playdoh and rubber duckies and Oma and Pops got them some more candy a little bunny and some hair clips. We then loaded up the cars and caravaned down to Nana and Papa's house for some Easter lunch and egg hunts. We had ham and turkey all the sides and more deviled eggs than you would think we could handle...but we took them down! All the kids had a blast hunting for eggs in the yard. There were more than enough out there so everyone got tons! Leila and her cousin Braelynn sat down and ate every single piece of candy they got that day before we even knew what was going on!





Once we wrapped up the egg-stravaganza we loaded up the kids once again for the long journey home. We had no idea what we were getting ourselves into. What should have been a 3 1/2 hour trip ended up being 5 after we were stopped in a traffic jam caused by a wreck. Oh got to love some holiday traffic!