I received the BEST gift I could ever think of for Easter this year!!! My family came to Dover to visit us for Easter!!! It went by way too fast and was simply the best week EVER!! Here are the highlights of the week...
Day 1: everyone spent a good part of the day getting settled and the kids were all just ecstatic to have Aunt Christina, her daughters, Mae and Claire, and my wonderful mom in the house with us. I hardly saw them at all the whole week, they were so preoccupied :) Grammy took this picture of Beckham who loved to sit with her in the bathroom as she got ready for the day.

We had a picnic at the base's "Airplane Park". It was super fun!!

Mae and Jane did spent a lot of time doing art projects and coloring pictures!

That same day, we brought out the sprinklers, bikes and bubble guns...the kids had a blast just playing around outside. I thought this pic of the girls was adorable.

waiting for the crazy sprinklers...

Here is my new, gorgeous niece, Claire!!

Grammy doted on my kids at bedtime...read them stories and gave them lots of love, and they LOVED it!

Day 2: We went to the local bouncy house place and had the whole thing to ourselves. Even Grammy went down a few times:) Jane was in heaven.

Daddy sure had fun, too...

Poor little Mae was pretty timid at the bouncy house place...but we managed to get her to go down a few times :)

My beautiful sis and Claire making one of her crusty faces:)

Then we went to Fifer Farm. They had fun Horse tire swings... and wonderful goodies to eat!!


We stopped by a crazy little town called "Kitts Hummock" to show the fam the unique houses on stilts that are right on the beach of this tiny little town:) My mom scared me with this dead horse shoe crab...:)

Everyone, wiped out after a long day, relaxing in the couch.

Jane LOVED holding baby Claire for the first time. She marveled at her tiny feet and hands and loved feeling so grown up!!

Day 3: We went to our favorite farmers' market, Bylers, and got their fabulous home made ice cream and the kids loved playing on the the many play sets they had outside.




Everyone had a lot of fun...

Day 4: Jane's best friend, Addy, had her birthday party today so everyone joined in the fun!!

Mae LOVED the pizza and cake :)

I love my sissy!!


Day 5: EASTER!!! Bryan, Wendy and Jack drove from New York to join us for Easter and I am so happy they did cause it was such a fabulous day!! We sure missed Matthew and Courtney and their kids though.
Here is my Easter table set up!!

The Easter baskets were a huge hit. They were beautiful and so much fun!!


I love Jack's face in this picture...that is such a Bryan face :)

Here's Mae opening her Easter basket!

After the baskets, we played and played and played outside. The kids loved the bouncy house.


Bryan's favorite was the kites...aw to be a kid again:)

Mae was so cute when she took a turn flying the kite...

This wins the prize for my favorite pic!! This exact scenario happened quite a few times this trip...haha...

Here is my hard work in action...Easter dinner ready to eat!!

The whole fam enjoying dinner!!

Then comes the Easter egg hunt!!



Enjoying the loot...


Here's cute little cowboy Jack!!

And this is Beckham exactly 2 seconds before he fell asleep on the couch after all the Easter craziness:)

Later on, after Bryan Wendy and Jack headed back to New York and after the couch naps, we took a quick trip to a near by beach.

Mae loved loved loved seeing where "Memo lived" and collecting sea shells and rocks:)


Just a cute picture :)


For some reason I have no pics of day 6?!
Day 7: While my mom traveled back from visiting my brother on Maryland, Christina, the kids and I went and played on another wonderful park on base. We were able to see many big AF planes taking off and landing. It was very cool!!


The kids had a blast :)

Day 8: A sad day...my family had to go home. Jane, Beckham and I got to take them to the airport and say goodbye. We were all very sad...and yes, I cried and cried to Ryan when he got home from work :( But, I had the BEST time with my family and made memories that I will NEVER forget!! Thanks to everyone for making the huge effort to come out and visit!! I love and miss my family so much and am realizing more and more how lucky I am to have such a wonderful family!!