Snow!

I'm going to copy part of the blog from Riley/Julia's blog as some of this will be redundant from it and it's easier to copy and paste :)

Annual Easter Egg Hunt at our neighborhood park this afternoon after church.  Was fabulous!  The girls brought their Easter baskets from last year and we got there just in time for the hunt.  Julia missed her group so she went in with the 3-5 year old group with Riley.  It was super cute watching the girls gather as many eggs as they could find.  Took Julia a little bit of time to watch the kids and realize that she should put her eggs in her basket.  Was so cute how she would pick each one up so gently and put it in.

Riley was very sweet to the kids near her and put her eggs in her basket.  At the end, the kids were told to go back to their parents.  Riley comes running to us, but Julia follows the other kids and runs through the taped off area far from us.  So we asked Riley to go get her.  Riley found her and Julia fell over and dropped the eggs out of her basket.  Riley picked them up and then ran to us with the basket - leaving Julia behind.  So then Julia followed Riley and Riley went back for her.  Parents weren't supposed to enter the area and it was still small enough we could see her, but couldn't reach her.  Guess that's what we get for pretending she was 3!

Madi's group came after the 6-8 year olds.  It was 9 and up.  She looked like she was ready to dash off at any second!  haha... she gathered as many eggs in the basket as she could and then ran back over to us to dump them at our feet so she could get more.  Repeated this a few times.  Was awesome! She got TONS of candy and was very proud of the number of eggs she gathered.  And it truly was a lot!!

I think they got as much candy inside of those eggs as they got at Halloween.  Which is interesting because we still have Halloween, Valentine's, Christmas and now Easter candy in their bags.

After the hunt, we went over to the hill at the park by the playground.  The HOA had real snow/ice brought in and created a sledding hill.  They provided sleds and had two tracks going.  Was awesome!!!  So the girls all got to go down the hill in the sleds.  They absolutely loved it!  I took Jules down and she giggled the whole way.  Madi and Riley went by themselves twice and together once.  Was so cute to watch them!  It was amazing that the snow stayed for two hours on that hill considering it was 91 degrees outside.  Truly the only thing this winter that was actually cold!  Possible it's the first time any of them had ever been sledding - especially in spring!

It was a really great day!  We're already starting to plan some summer activities as sign ups are starting.  We went to church this morning and they announced the date for Madi's church camp this summer.  Same camp as last year - Camp KidJam!  It'll be in July.  We're also going to a Pajamarama for K-5 girls.  Should be a fun event in three weeks.  VBS sign up will happen in the next month or so and I'll be helping with it so that Riley can participate too.  Plus Julia is older this year so it'll be easy to work around her nap time compared to last year.  We live just down the street from the LISD Aquatic Center and they are offering swim lessons so Riley and Madi will both be participating in that this summer too.  They'll be at different levels, but at the same time.  Sessions are held for two weeks and they'll go eight classes total over the two weeks.  Looking to be a fun summer already!!  Only eight and a half weeks left of school which is crazy!