a Manthe weekend

 So I'm finally blogging about our fun weekend last weekend.  I think I'm getting lazy...or just busy... ;)

We headed up to Kansas to see Joe's family. It was their pastor's 40th anniversary at Joe's church where he grew up (and Pastor Seaba married Joe and I too!) All of us met up in Kansas (minus Josh and Val and family, whom we definitely missed!!)

We had fun watching these two twin cousins together. And they had a few matching outfits from Nana which made it even more fun.

They are adorable together.

Nana also surprised the older girl cousins with matching pajamas. They were so excited. Joey and Kylah love playing with their cousin Hannah. She even got to have a sleepover with Kylah on Friday night. I think they stayed up talking for a long time...

And I finally got to meet my sweet nephew, Silas. He is the sweetest baby ever. He is so easy going and cuddly.

On Saturday morning we took the kids to an Easter egg hunt put on by Jody's work. The kids were excited/scared thinking they were going to be hunting eggs next to the "bad people." (Joe's dad is the plumber's foreman at the prison). We quickly corrected them that we weren't actually hunting eggs inside the prison and we wouldn't see any of the prisoners. They were relieved, but maybe a little disappointed not to see any prisoners. Oh the minds of kids...

The egg hunt was really fun. I love this little line up of the kids and their Easter baskets.

Egg hunting pictures of little ones is just so adorable.

Joey was having a blast (and they separated the big kids from the little ones which was great.)

Kylah was all business running around getting eggs.

Kylah has finally overcome her fear of mascots. Every one of my kids has been deathly afraid of mascots at one point in their lives. Right now, Norah is terrified. She didn't even want the bunny looking at her. She was shaking and gripping me in fear that I was going to take a step closer to the bunny. Hilarious.

With eight kids hunting eggs, we had quite the loot of eggs and candy. We had fun sorting the eggs from the candy together.

Back at the house Norah and Naomi put back on their matching "dresses" (dresses that are actually nightgowns...) and played with Nana and Grandpa's new dogs, Linus and Lucy. The dogs are adorable, and all the kids loved playing with them.

It was a beautiful day on Saturday, and I enjoyed sitting on the porch cuddling Silas. I could cuddle sleeping babies forever!

Cute little girl cousins (and Lucy!!).

Joey even sat still for a minute to hold his cousin. Joey is excited to have another boy around with all these girl cousins. He definitely misses having Deacon and Caleb around! (Luckily he plays great with Hannah and Kylah, and they spend hours running around outside and playing in the fort.)

Also, he has a fun Grandpa who lets him help with "man things". Grandpa and Joey cut down a tree together (I'm still not sure why this tree needed to be cut down...) But, it made Joey feel like a big boy, and he even got to use the sawzall (yes I had to look up how to spell that...)

Saturday afternoon, Great Grandma took the grandkids to ride the carousel in town. They loved it, even though Joey said he got a little motion sick. :)

I didn't go with, so I don't have any pictures.

But, I did get a cute picture of the kids with GG on Sunday at church. So cute!

And Norah and Naomi were dressed in matching outfits again.

And Silas wore his new outfit we got him. I love seeing little baby boys dressed like their daddies in polos!!

When we got home, we did a quick redecorating of Joey's room. We found some Kansas Jayhawk things while we were in Kansas, and Joey's been asking to have a Jayhawk room for a while. Joe was more than happy to let him. :)

Joey says he sleeps so good in his new room now that it's Jayhawks!