Robert's sister Aly's farewell was Easter Sunday. Robert's spring break was the week leading up to it, so we got to take a week and a half long trip, be with our family for Easter, and be there for Aly's farewell. Triple score!!
The only people we had told that we were pregnant in our families were my mom and Robert's sister Jamie. We decided the way we'd announce it to the rest was we'd buy these "Big Sister" outfits for both the girls, show up with them wearing it, and see how long it took for them to figure out that Mary's also said BIG sister :)
We were staying at Robert's parents', but we stopped off at my parents' first to change the girls into their outfits. My sister, Bean, helped change Mary and when she saw that it said "Big Sister" she said, "Oh Heidi, this one's Lydia's." But then she saw that I had already finished dressing Lydia, looked at me for a second, and then started screaming and hugging me. The rest of my family had similar reactions.
Robert's family was a little bit slower. It was an hour or two before Aly was the one that said "Wait, why does Mary's shirt say big sister?" And I said, "Why else?" Then the rest proceeded to get it :)
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| Cute pic of Lydia playing with Aly's dolls. |
Kind of a bummer, Robert had strep before we went to AZ. We didn't realize that's what it was until we got there. He toughed it out and drove the whole way to Mesa. Then I caught it from him too. So for the first couple of days of the trip we were bed ridden. Good thing was we were able to quarantine ourselves while Robert's family took care of the girls, so the girls never caught it from us. Then once we each had at least 24 hours of antibiotics in us and were feeling better, we were able to rejoin the fun and enjoy the rest of the trip.
Some adventures of the girls while we were nursing ourselves back to health...
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| "Look, I'm a knight!" |
Playing at the park with Grandma, Aly, and friends.
And a little bit of lazing about. They were on vacation after all.
Richardson Easter Egg Hunt
The day before Easter at Robert's Grandma and Grandpa Richardson's house.
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| "So I have an empty bucket, I see the egg, now what?" |
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| "Oh I get it!" |
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| "And there's prizes inside???" |
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| "AWESOME!" |
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| Once the littles had their quota of eggs, watching the tortoises next door was clearly more entertaining than watching the older kids find their eggs. |
Easter Morning
Aly's Farewell
We were so glad we were able to be there for this. Aly was so ready and prepared to be a missionary and she is already proving that out in the field.
As always, we got pictures of the girls in their Easter dresses. They weren't as cooperative this year as last, but we got a couple okay pics.
We didn't coordinate which camera we'd look at, so here's one with the camera Robert's looking at.
And one with the camera I'm looking at... Oops :)
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| Kickin it in the grass with Aly |
After church we dyed Easter eggs.
And once again for the 4th year in a row, Robert's nerd egg. I won't even try to translate it this time, but the answer is "eggs" AKA "x"
Aly made a Brazil egg. Representing her mission before she's even out in the field :)
Then it was off to my family's for Easter dinner. This unfortunately is the only pic I got.
Ice Cream Easter Eggs
So once upon a time Robert's dad goofed a text and instead of writing "Grandma will have ice cream and Easter eggs waiting" he said "Grandma will have ice cream in Easter eggs waiting." Of course Robert's mom took this as a challenge and Easter night we had ice cream in plastic Easter eggs.
We had all sorts of crushed cookies and candy bars we could roll the ice cream in.
The girls were definitely fans of this.
The Phoenix Zoo
And what would a trip to AZ be without going to the zoo with Robert's mom? The day before we came home we made the trek.
We had to get a pic of Aly and the girls in their matching bright green shirts.
And to close out this post, a cute picture of Mary playing with her Grandpa Richardson.
