Finally.....EASTER!!!!!

Christ is RISEN!!!!!!

What a beautiful Easter we had! Beautiful weather, a wonderful church service...feast in our dining room and fun family time. What a blessing. Here is our family on Easter morning....we were actually running "early" in getting ready for church and then everything started falling apart. Andy knew it was important to me to get some pictures, so he hustled to set up the camera to take our photo...and Colin would have NOTHING to do with it. We ended up getting Colin to smile by making "fun" of Daddy setting the camera and running into the picture. It worked wonderfully! ☺
Months ago, when Fleet Farm's Toyland opened, we were still living in our old house, getting ready to move. We rigged a plan--I gave my parents money to buy a trampoline at Fleet Farm and keep it at their apartment, hidden from the girls--they were still in Omro last October. My Dad got the trampoline and he called me, asking for Andy and his buddy Walter to stop by the Omro apartment to help unload the heavy item en route to the Wisconsin/Iowa football game. They stopped by, unloaded the trampoline and were talking about how heavy the box was. In discussion, Walter whipped out his nifty blackberry phone to convert kilos to pounds...and my Mom thought he was pointing the phone at the trampoline and it was telling Walter how much it weighed! That has been a continual laugh at our house....the joke is "Don't ever let Walter point his phone at you--he might find out your weight!" ☺

Anyway...shortly after, the trampoline had to be moved to my parents' "new" apartment in Neenah and then, we decided to wait until Easter to give it to the girls--what fun would it be for Christmas anyway, to just look at the box, waiting for the snow to melt for assembly? It seems like so long ago we bought the item and it stayed hidden, the girls had NO idea they'd ever get one!

Andy and Walter put together the beloved jumping toy the Saturday before Easter....and it took over 4 hours!!!! It was intense. We ended up giving the girls a clue that said "BOUNCE" since we knew they'd see it before Easter morning. Here are some funny vidoes of the trampoline:

Click here to see Walter "sewing" the walls to the frame (he is an awesome friend of Andy's who is always up for any type of fun at our house!)

Click here to see Walter testing out the safety of the trampoline

Click here to see the 3 girls jumping for the 1st time

Click here to see Ava and Colin's first jump...