Easter Weekend

Taking advantage of the 4-day weekend, we got out of Davenport! We like Davenport, but we haven't done anything fun (with all 4 of us, at least) in some time... We went with some good friends to Minneapolis (5-ish hours away) because most of us had never been. The kids actually did better than we could have dreamed on the ride over and back. Very little screaming, and a fair amount of sleeping. We spent some of Friday evening and a lot of Saturday at the Mall of America, and enjoyed all the interesting stores and the neat indoor amusement park there. It reminded me a lot of the carnival part of a county fair, except everything was really clean, everything was stable (since they're fairly permanent) and the workers were happy and un-scary. Also, it had a few super fun rides that we got to go on without the kids. Saturday night we didn't go back to the hotel until just after 9. We were impressed that the kids made it that long. (remember, Moms, you can click on these pictures to make them bigger!)

We went to part of a random ward's stake conference (we didn't realize it was stake conference, so we missed more than the first half...) and then drove over to see the St. Paul temple. Reilly got to wear a tie (successfully) for the first time, and Jaina had a cute little Easter dress and some new sandals. They were good sports for most of the pictures we tried to take of them. (And thanks to Emily and her camera for a few of the better shots!)

If you want to see more of Kennedy and her cute dress, I'm sure you'll be able to before very long HERE...

Our trip was a lot of fun, and I'm glad we got to have a little mini-vacation! It's so nice to have everyone well and feel sort of on top of things. Jeremy worked really hard (I helped a lot, too) to get the house sorted out, cleaned up, and the laundry done yesterday (he had Monday off too), so we're feeling pretty good today!