EASTER 2011

We went to Naperville for Easter this past weekend to spend time with the family, which was totally worth it, but came with some bad and good.

THE GOOD
We got to spend time with family.
We got to get away from Alton and Brad had some time to decompress from an especially hard week.
We got to drive in comfort in our new car (did I mention we bought a new car?).
We got to celebrate Finley's first Easter.
I didn't have to make Easter dinner.

THE BAD
We were there for less than 48 hours.
Three kids got the flu, which made keeping Fin healthy a bit difficult (luckily none of us appear to be affected so far).

All in all we never regret a tip up north. Especially when it took us out of town just as a tornado took out some of the major airport in St. Louis about 30 minutes from our house. Yikes! Luckily we came home to our fully intact house which was a little touch and go because initially the reports had the tornado heading directly to Alton. Anyway, we had beautiful weather in Naperville and enjoyed an Easter egg hunt outside and ate way too much food inside. Here are a heap load of pictures of Finley. I might have been a little shutter happy. She does this laugh with her face scrunched up and her mouth wide open - it's the most adorable thing ever and I couldn't stop taking pictures. Some of these are really blown out but I love her face in all of them. I'm still learning to use our highfalutin camera.











Brad and his brother Ken were a little cruel when hiding some of the eggs for the bigger kids. He had to lift Carson up for this one. The hardest egg to find? It was buried in the yard under some grass.








Finley's cousins (Grace, Ella, and Cassidy) were in love with her and she was loving all the attention. I think she gets a little bored hanging out with me all day.