Spring Has Sprung

The past few weeks have been absolutely beautiful. The weather has been gorgeous and everything is starting to bloom. In fact, I saw my first peony on our walk tonight - a beautiful sign of spring and a reminder of our wedding! (only a few weeks until our 1 year anniversary!)

 My family came down to KC to celebrate Easter. It was nice to not have to travel, and Easter fell right in between a test, so Isaac spent most of his time at school. The family showed up on Friday and that evening we spent some time at Town Center, ate at Gordon Bierch and went to "The Hunger Games" movie. It was a wonderful evening!

 Sibling Look-alike pics

 If you watch the video above, I think it is obvious who wins the sibling look-alike contest. It's quite apparent if you pause the video every second!

 While shopping, Noah agreed to try on any outfit we picked for him...problem is, he looks good in about everything, including white pants and a pastel v-neck...

Nice shirt!!

On Saturday while Isaac was away at school, we all went grocery shopping for Easter dinner, and then had lunch at Chick-fil-a or "chick-a-flicka- as we like to call it. Yum!! That evening we all went to one of our favorite restaurants - Avuletto's Italian Delight. It is an authentic cafeteria style Italian restaurant - Definitely our favorite place in KC!

 Pictures from the annual "Gfeller Easter Egg Hunt." As always, there are "good eggs" and "bad eggs". Since Devin wasn't able to run yet, mom and dad hid the eggs inside our apartment. It was actually a lot harder finding them than it is outside. We  found the last egg the other day. Good thing it wasn't a rotting "bad" egg!

 

 The night before, mom and dad went hunting for egg fillers outside. There they found this beautiful cigarette butt, and some other wonderful prizes, including the worst of them all: a dead bird. Yes, for the mother of all "bad" eggs, they filled the plastic egg with a dead baby bird they found on the grass under our tree...talk about disgusting. I'm just glad I didn't have to open it. This was the first year I didn't get the worst egg..last year I got a fish eye that they had just cut out of a fish from the pond, and then the year before I got a dead mouse...our parents are just so generous during the Easter season :)

 For Easter dinner, we dined on ham, twice baked potatoes, asparagus, rolls, waldorf salad and spring cupcakes.

Playing a little Bible Trivia for the final eggs.

 Isaac's clipped fingernails...

 

Lucky Noah! Benson's nasty post-bath hair from the shower drain!

 Of course..there were a few "good" eggs to offset all the bad ones!

 My girl Mocha came to celebrate Easter!

 Easter baskets that were hidden in the apartment. They sure were hard to find in our 800 sq. ft apartment!

 Trying to get a family picture. Ben didn't want to cooperate!

 Noah's Star War's eggs...or Star Trek?

 We ended the  weekend with some time at the dog park. As always, the pups enjoyed the exercise and we had a nice time as well.