spent Easter in CT with Debbie's parents. It was great. We didn't arrive at their house until late Friday, around 11 PM. Tim and Hope were so excited to be going to Nana and Pop's that neither slept much on the way there so it was not 
a very quiet ride up since all of our kids are talkers. We all went to to bed after midnight and still at 5:45 AM Tim crawled into bed with my parents - I'm sure to play rather than sleep. Even Hope was up at a reasonable hour after having gone to bed so late. The kids hung out and played with Nana and Pop all day, even having a picnic on their bed after Mike and I fell asleep in the family room where all 
the toys were. They all had a good time dying Easter eggs. Even Matt did a great job with help from Pop to keep the bowl of dye on the table. Apparently he didn't care for the taste of the dye though.The other reason for Tim's excitement, as if se
eing Pop isn't reason enough, was that he was going to see his friend Justin on this trip, too. They've been wanting to get together, but it doesn't happen too much when you live over 200 miles away and you spend part of your year on the other side of the world. After their initial "I'm being shy and not going to talk to you phase" they had a good time together and were reasonably well-behaved in the pizza place.
Easter morning was filled with egg and basket hunting and church
. Hope and Matt discovered that if you go to Nana's there's always lots of good food so they munched away and then sat down for a nice family dinner. They got to meet Uncle Skip, Uncle Bob and Eu. They learned that if Uncle Bob is at dinner all the grown-ups laugh and even if you don't understand 
why you laugh too. Not to leave out the kiddies, he also taught them important tricks from my youth, like how to put your finger through the flame of a candle. No, we didn't let them try it, but they were fascinated nevertheless.
A motley looking crew on Easter morning
The piano player, The Diva, The Superhero in training
We headed back to DE Monday morning, much to the disappointment of the kids, and stopped in PA on the way home to visit Grandmom. Tim and Hope tried to impress her with their counting ability by reading all the hymn numbers up to 102 (several times) in the Sunday missal that was on the the table. Matt smiled and waved and danced for everyone.
We hope you all had a nice holiday and are enjoying the beginning of Spring. Spring for us means the beginning of organized sports for Tim and Hope so that will end this post since it's almost time for their first soccer games. More updates on that later.
