Happy Easter

We had a wonderful easter sunday. we were suppose to be in san diego, but long story short, the axlines ended up down here. my mom is in chicago helping kelsey move, so it was just us, my dad and candace and matt. candace and the kids came down yesterday and we spent the entrie day cleaning my house...literally all day! i feel like i do what she does, it just never comes out clean. well, it was clean yesterday:) we then had dinner and dyed eggs. got the kids to bed somewhat early for our 7:45 mass. the kids were all HORRIBLE. so horrible none of them got their easter baskets. they were talking, laughing, laying on the pews, fighting. i wanted to physically hurt my two. had we been alone, i would have pulled the plug on the egg hunt. that's how bad they were. our baskets are still sitting here ready to be opened. they keep staring at them. anyways...we ended the day at my parents swimming all day and then after a little miscommunication and NO food, we ate prime rib, mash potatoes, and matty's bacon wrapped asparagus. we ate early so candace could get home and after dinner my dad says "you know, i could go to be early enough today to be up by 1am" so true. we all got a good laugh out of that.

The Axlines and Ross' in age order

megsie in her coop

taking a picture with 3 kids is virtuously impossible. the big girls were fine, but meghan oh!

hannah's 3rd hunt. she is a super star egg hunter

kate and her loot

we did an on your mark, get set, go....meghan was left in the dust not knowing what was going on!

right before the go!

breakfast on easter morning

My poor bennett. these are the socks his mother put him in for church. i got mad at her and she proceeds to tell me that he had pants on. i got the lecture on what makes one happy, family, love, god...I don't care i told her. don't put your kids in mom's socks!

the graffiti picture happened sometime yesterday when candace and i were clean sweeping my house. the best thing about it was she couldn't blame anyone else. what is going through a kids mind when they do this? don't they realize it's not going away and they will get caught?