Easter Eggcitement

We had a great Easter.  It was quite the weekend of celebration and as usual Luke was spoiled silly by Isolene, Matt & I, both sets of grandparents, great grandma Della, aunts/uncles and the Easter Bunny.  

Presents in the mail from Uncle Ben & Auntie Linda on Friday - he loves his new books, thank you!

We spent Saturday up in Wisconsin with Mom, Dad, Kristin, Cory, PJ and Grandma Della.  Mom and Dad are back from Florida and so we had a nice reunion.  Mom made an awesome pre-Easter dinner and we loved spending the whole day with everyone.  

Easter dress from Grandma

Luke got the hang of the sit 'n spin:)  Grandpa playing with the kids.

Family pic

Delicious dinner with the fancy china

Celebrating their 60th birthdays in person:)

Grandma's in the sister sandwich

On Sunday morning Luke found his Easter basket and eggs that the Easter Bunny had left for him in our living room.  He walked out of his bedroom in the morning and immediately saw a blue egg on the end table.  His eyes were wide with all of the other eggs in sight!  There were real hard boiled eggs as well as plastic eggs with animal crackers and goldfish in them (which he did seem to prefer).  We taught him to put the eggs in his basket, which worked out fine for the plastic eggs that he chucked into the basket, but the hard boiled eggs didn't fair as well.  Let's just say I had to be quick about making egg salad out of those eggs.  But we have to get him started sometime, right?  I attached a pretty long video of the Easter egg hunt, if you have some spare time and want to watch the action.  (I use the word "action" pretty loosely.)

Checking out the toys in his Easter basket

The rest of the day on Sunday we went to Donna and Emil's house, where we celebrated with the whole crew - Grammy & Boyd, Aunt Diane & Uncle Garry, Justin, Sara, Orrin & baby Lila, and Uncle Mike.  D & E had set up a whole Easter egg hunt outside of the kids, and Luke loved it!  Grandma and Grandpa also had another special surprise for Luke.  They gave him an adorable mini John Deere tractor complete with a trailer they made for him (they seriously are so crafty!) to pull along with.  

Easter egg hunt at G&G Baranko's

Orrin was really good at finding the eggs!

all the loot

Baby Lila is getting so big!

Awesome John Deere tractor 

A trip to the park, Justin & Orrin, Matt & Luke plus funny faces from Grandma

Traditional Hungarian Easter feast = meat plate!

Diane & Garry with granddaughter Lila - Congrats Garry on your recent retirement!

Last night Luke randomly fell over and hurt his ankle.  One minute he was standing and the next he was crying.  We think he must have rolled his ankle.  He couldn't put any weight on it, and it was so sad to watch him try to "walk it off" and then as soon as he'd take one step he would howl in pain.  We were super worried about him all night and prayed it would be better in the morning (which it mostly was, he is limping slightly, but is bearing weight).  I can't even imagine having a seriously ill child, we were such basket cases over a turned ankle.  Really makes you appreciate health even more.  

Tiger sighting!