The Huber Family: TX Trip Part 1

Longview, Texas! I was going to attempt to put all of our visit with Nana and Papa in one post but when I got to 53 pictures with 3 more days to go, I figured I better split it into two posts. Below is a picture of what the 9 hour ride down and the 9 hour ride back looked like. My friend Emily (whose parents also live in Longview) and her 3 kids and the girls and I had quite the experience in the van...movies, games, activities, snacks, songs, a basket on a pulley to get the goods to the back seat, and a partridge in a pear tree! We left early so they would sleep for at least the first quarter, and they did amazing! It went so much better than I thought it would. As long as neither of us has anymore kids for a bit, I would do it again in a minute.

So Nana went our of her way to make our pre-Easter week fun. We got home on the Saturday before Easter so instead of doing our traditional things, we got to do new fun things with Nana and Papa. We did face painting...

and fingernail painting...

and egg hunting everyday...daytime AND nighttime!!!

We made Easter cupcakes...lambs, nests, and a cross :)

We had bunnies for breakfast...

and colored eggs too. What fun what fun!

Nana and Papa had to work during the week but we still had lots of extra special times with them...we saw a Dog Parade...(oh yeah...I know you are all jealous)...

we went to a sweet "castle park"....twice...

the girls helped Papa "make" in the kitchen...

and then he took them on their first ever mini-golf trip. Note to self: the attention span of a 3 year old is a tad short to do 36 holes you paid good money for...

and we visited Papa at work and sat in on his little kids sermon he does for the pre-school at the church.

Of course, we got all spiffied up for church so Nana and Papa could show off their sweet grand-babies. They were a hit waving their palm branches and you easily tell what pew we sat in thanks to the glitter they left from their dresses. :)

Emily and her sweet parents made sure we weren't just sitting on at home on the couch when Nana and Papa had to work so the girls had their first experience with Chuck E. Cheese. Andy tried to convince them before we went that they probably wouldn't like it and as we walked in the door, Hadley ran off around the corner yelling, "I LOVE THIS PLAAAAAAACE!!"