Johnson Visit for Easter

This past weekend we got to celebrate Easter with my sister and her family as well as spend a couple of days together. The last time we had seen them had been last July and we hadn't even expected to see them this soon. A couple of months ago Allen decided he wanted to drive across country and stop in multiple cities along the way for his business. Heidi and Nara decided to come along if the could make an extended stop in Evansville to see family. Except for the constant rain, we had a great visit.

They arrived late Thursday night, but we didn't get to see them until Friday. Some of the girls decided to go get pedicures while Jonathan watched the kids. Thanks Jon. After that, Nara came over to our house to play for the afternoon. They had fun because I was watching Isabelle so it gave her another girl to play with. Friday night after dinner we hung out at Jonathan's house and played games.

Saturday we had pictures scheduled at JC Penneys for the grandkids. They looked really cute together, but inevitably we could not get all of the grandkids to cooperate at once. We ended up with a very true to life picture :) That evening we through an early birthday party for Nara because she is never here on her birthday. She was very excited because she didn't know we were doing that. Gretchen's boyfriend came with his daughter Maggie and the kids had a blast together. After everyone left, Nara spent the night with the boys. We thought we may have to hear Kenan and Nara talking all night, but they went to bed really well.

On Sunday the kids woke up to have breakfast and then go through their Easter baskets. We picked my sister up for church and met some more of my family there. We were hoping to get in an outside Easter egg hunt, but by time we got together that afternoon it was raining again. Kenan came out and said,"Why did God have to ruin Easter with rain." He wasn't happy about the fact it had been raining so long. We helped raise his spirits a bit by having an indoor egg hunt with the cousins. My cousin's wife Alicia and her kids, my aunt Tina and Uncle Matt, and my Uncle Kenny and Aunt Caroline joined us for dinner. It was a nice celebration.

The last day together was pretty relaxing. Kenan got to stay home from preschool so he would have more time to play with his cousin. Emily my cousin came over for lunch with her son Owen. She had missed Easter even though she had planned to attend so she brought the Greek salad she had already made. My aunt Lynne stopped by as well to visit. Some of the guys went to a movie together while Heidi cut hair(something she always gets roped into doing while she is here). Later that evening about 20 of us got together at Zuki to celebrate Jonathan's birthday. It was a lot of fun. We sat at the Hibachi tables so that those who didn't want sushi could do the Hibachi. Jonathan of course got a big boat of sushi. The kids loved the food and were entertained by the chefs as well. Finally we finished up at Stephen's and Angie's house for coffee and brownies.

Even though we were sad that their stay was so short, we had a great time with the Johnson family. Hopefully we can get out to California to visit them again after Langston is born.