Easter + Bluebonnets

Creative post title, I know. But I'm just happy to be getting a timely post on the blog at all. :) We had a lot going on this past weekend, but it still managed to be relatively relaxing. Maybe it was the beautiful weather that made it feel that way (or the fact that all three kids slept fell asleep in the car on the way home from the farm last night at 7 pm and slept until after 7 this morning). Either way, it was a weekend that left me feeling blessed with a fabulous family.

Now onto the part that you're really interested in, pics of the kiddos. I just realized when uploading these that I didn't get a single picture of Egan egg-hunting (was he just too fast? wearing his invisibility cloak? suffering from middle-child syndrome?) Whatever it was, sorry about that (especially to Egan), but do check out the photo of him in the bluebonnets below--I think it's my favorite of the flower pics.

:: Nico was more interested in eating the candy inside the eggs than hunting. After he found a couple on the porch, he had to be coaxed off to find more. Then he got distracted by the pond and pretty much skipped the Saturday egg hunt altogether. Good thing for him that we have a community Easter basket rule at our house. Good thing for me too. :) ::

:: Ella was the grand prize egg winner (and the one with the most eggs at all three hunts we participated in over the weekend, she keeps telling me). She's sweet, smart, and cute, but humble, she's not. ::

:: Nico trying to get Ella to explain to him why I put them in matching light-colored outfits and then wanted them to sit on the ground to take bluebonnet pictures (or maybe I'm confusing his thoughts with my own muddled ones). ::

:: Okay, here it is, probably my favorite pic of the day. Egan just has the sweetest, most wonderful smile. I see it and I think this can't be the same boy who smeared refried beans all over himself just so he could get a bath in the kitchen sink like Nico or tried to remove all the wallpaper border in his room in the middle of the night or used a black dry erase marker to decorate some plain white walls. That smile makes up for a lot of trouble-making. ::

:: I think it might be physically impossible to get three kids to sit still and take a posed photo, but two out of three isn't bad (well, one and a half if you take into account Ella's "I'm posing for a picture" crazy face). ::

:: This is actually the best of the three of them together, even with Nico not looking. Sometimes you just take what you can get. ::

:: Nico was too distracted by the flowers to sit still for pictures. He just wanted to pull the tops off of those luscious bluebonnets. ::

:: Ella thought picking them was a great idea too, until we told her she had to stop and that she couldn't take them home with her. ::

:: Another of my favorites showcasing the sweetness of Egan. ::

:: Two monsters meeting up at the watering hole. ::

:: Wow, four people sitting still and looking at the camera. And I said two out of three wasn't bad. Dijar is muy talented. ::