Mother's Day breakfast

We had a Mother's Day breakfast at the kids' school. Grandma joined us

Kids gave me a very cute plate. 

spaghetti dinner

group picture of the spaghetti dinner attendees in 2014 - the 17th dinner we've had!!

egg drop

vera participated in her first easter egg drop this year!  (an albeit dorky family tradition, since there are many engineers)

egg hunt

the big egg hunt at raufers'!

easter dressed

all dressed up in our easter sunday best

egg hunt

had an egg hunt in our yard easter morning.  in pjs. and hats.  

easter baskets

easter bunny went a little nuts in our house this year...  to clarify, we only have two children.  i'm not sure why he left SIX baskets ;)

but vera basically arms raised up that morning in the recognized "score!!!" sign language

easter eggs

dyeing easter eggs.  pirate themed is how we roll around here

Plane ride

Thank goodness for electronic devices and lollipops!! Successful round trip plane flights to/from Florida

Fancy hotel castle

One of the hotels we stayed at had a fancy castle (Gaylord Orlando). We visited multiple times during our days there. One of which we spent over an hour in this castle. Which I might point out was significantly longer than any Orlando attraction we spent an arm and a leg to see, ha

Roller coaster

Vera went in her first "roller coaster" at Lego land. She was a natural...

Lego land

Mom and nana took the kids to Lego land while dad had to work