The Scudder Family

Sunday, April 24, 2011

Easter Sunday: All Dressed Up!

Dressing up the kids and getting a picture, seems like this is my dream. It never ends up quite like I imagine, but at least I have fun trying to conquer this ambition.

Scudder family~Easter 2011

Scudder kids~ Easter 2011

Scudder triplets~Easter 2011

Big boy Jack~ Easter 2011

Anna Victoria~Easter 2011

Anna and Elizabeth

Elizabeth Kristine~Easter 2011

Katherine Maxine~Easter 2011

Anna

Elizabeth

Kate

Helping put Easter eggs in the girls' purses before Mass

Jack in his new ND jersey after Mass.

Easter: Sunday Morning

Easter Sunday started with Jack coming into our bedroom around 5:30 asking if the Easter bunny came. Around 6:30, while laying in bed with us, he told us he heard the Easter bunny! We made him wait until the girls got up around 8am before we allowed him to go downstairs. He saw eggs right away downstairs but it was a few seconds before he spotted his Easter basket. He shouted, "Daddy, he brought us lots of candy!"

The girls learned quickly there were jelly beans and skittles in the plastic eggs and experienced these for the first time. Needless-to-say, they were a big hit!

Elizabeth, Anna & Kate

Jelly beans~ yum!

Daddy gives them jelly beans

Jack looking through his basket

Playing the Toy Story 3 games with Daddy

Anna figured out how to open the eggs :)

Elizabeth loved the skittles

Kate knew there were good things to eat inside these eggs :)

Anna with her new purse

Anna put some eggs in the purse

Elizabeth carrying her purse

Kate LOVED her purse

In fact, she found one of her sister's purses and carried two around!

My little purse girl

Saturday, April 23, 2011

Shh, the Easter Bunny Came...

Jack's basket...Notre Dame jersey, wow! And Toy Story 3 games!

Anna's basket

Elizabeth's basket

Kate's basket

Wonder how the Easter bunny knows that John works at Vera Bradley now because he brought the girls their first VB purse...

Easter Weekend: Saturday

Today we rushed out of the house to make Jack's tee ball game at 9 am only to get half-way to the ball diamond and receive a message that his game was cancelled because of the condition of the fields (wet because of the rains we have had over the last week). Such a bummer that the girls were loaded in the van and ready to watch their big brother in action for the first time! Today turned into a beautiful day so when we got home, we let the kids play outside. John did some garage cleaning and the girls did better staying on the driveway. They liked to push little cars around, ride in the jeep with Jack (he put his arm around each of them while they were sitting next to him in the front seat so they wouldn't fall out and they loved it!), walk around the back path of the house to the golf course (Kate picked up a few rocks and ate them along the way) and walk up the front walkway and climb the stair to the front door. Kate and Elizabeth loved throwing balls too. After about an hour of playing, we had some reinforcements come to help us watch the girls, i.e. the Frazier girls. It works out nicely because there are three Frazier girls and three Scudder toddlers. After a while everyone came in for lunch. The girls took a nap and Jack colored Easter eggs with the Sarah, Claire and Amy. I guess he will have to get used to coloring eggs with three girls :)

In the evening, we had Mimi and Papa, Uncle John and Aunt Mary along with the Fraziers over for a cookout. John fired up the grill for the first time since we moved and I made two apple pies. The girls once again played outside before dinner and actually ate their dinner outside. Nice for me since I only had to scrub the kitchen floor twice today!