Easter Weekend 2009

Are you surprised to be hearing from me so soon? Yeah. You should be. For some reason I have a little time on my hands and I thought I'd surprise you all be doing something very unlike me...not wait a month between posts! I thought I'd try to get all caught up so I don't have to do such a big post a month from now. ;) Even though I'm sure you all enjoy the extra long posts! ;) We're still in Houston. Jason has 9 more days left at the hospital here before we can head back home, so we don't have much longer! As much as I enjoy not having a whole house to clean or any errands to run - there's something nice about being in your own house...especially sleeping in your own bed! This bed is SO uncomfortable! It makes our bed at home seem like a Temperpedic mattress (or as Tony always called it - an astronaut bed)! :) Anyways - let's get caught up! :)

What better way to start off a post than with a picture of ME and my little boy?! ;)

Caleb at 7 weeks. He started cracking cute little smiles at 6 weeks. Of course the first person he smiled at was Jason...but seriously - who wouldn't smile (laugh) at that crazy guy!! ;)

For Easter weekend we drove out to Dallas to visit Aunt Shelley and Uncle Jim. Coming from Houston, it was still just as far away as it normally is (coming from San Antonio), but the time spent with family is always worth the drive! 5 hours of driving + 3 kiddos = aggravation! Even so - being with family is well worth all the tears, screaming and my bulging angry forehead vein that come with kids and a long drive! :)

The next afternoon, we lounged around being lazy watching TV and doing nothing. For some reason we felt compelled to watch the rest of the Lizzy McGuire movie with Hilary Duff. At the end of the movie, Hilary Duff was singing some song and it was at that point that Becky and Rissy decided to break out with a little enthusiastic dancing. Much to their embarrassment, Jason had decided to videotape them...and to make it worse - I'm putting it on my blog for all to see. I guess I'm one of Jason's accomplices now. I've gone over to the dark side. ;) I still love you Beck and Riss! It was highly entertaining! I wish Jason would have started videotaping it sooner! :)

Becky and Rissy's debut dance off

That night, we met Uncle Jim and Aunt Shelley at the kids' high school to watch Becky and Rissy's softball games. Unfortunately, we got there after Becky's game had just ended! I was mostly upset that we missed her singing the national anthem before her game! Argh!! She sings before all of the games, so maybe we'll make it to a game on time next year...

The crazy Capra clan cheering for Rissy and her team

Don't get in Rissy's way! She's intimidating!! Seriously. ;)

Jason showing his support

The excitement is building...

Jason leading the crazy cheering Capras

Jason breaks out with a robot dance. It was highly entertaining...and only a little embarrassing... ;)

Uncle Jim and Aunt Shelley with a couple of my monsters... ;)

The next day, Jason and I - along with Katie, Caleb, Mike (who also came to visit while we were in Dallas), Mark, Becky and Rissy all went out for a little shopping. I really need some new clothes, but I'm still 13 pounds away from my pre-preggo weight (and I'm breast-feeding), so nothing fits right! Argh!!!! I want clothes!!!! That night - Uncle Jim did what he does best - a BBQ! Mmmm...yummy!!! Before bed, we watched Slumdog Millionaire on their big screen in the theater room. It was pretty good and I know everyone loves it, but I don't think I'd want to watch it again! The guy wins millions of dollars on a TV game show, but he only knows all the answers because all of the questions had to do with something horrible that happened in his childhood/adolescence! It was a great movie, but too depressing to watch more than once!

The next night (the night before Easter), the girls' colored the eggs

Rissy at work on her masterpiece

Caleb enjoying the swing that Aunt Shelley bought for him for when we're visiting. He really did enjoy it - prior to this crying episode!

Later on, we watched another movie called The Changeling. Not as good as Slumdog, but almost equally depressing. During the movie, Caleb smiles for his Uncle Michael while they get to know each other. :)

Caleb and his Uncle Mikey

After staying up far too late watching that movie, I finally went to bed at 2am - which is probably why I woke up too late for church the next morning! Eek!! It's okay though - I can still praise God on my own for the awesome gift He gave us that very first Easter...besides we go church the rest of the year, so I didn't miss out on a one-time thing!

Aunt Shelley, Jason, Michael and I hid all of the Easter eggs while Becky and Rissy hid the girls away in a room. I had originally only brought two Easter baskets, some candy, a little bag of plastic eggs filled with candy and a couple little toys, but Aunt Shelley added a huge bag of candy-filled plastic eggs, stuffed animals and toys to boot! Even Jason and I, Caleb, Mike, Mark, Becky, Rissy and Micah got some Easter surprises! Aunt Shelley is such a cutie! :)

The booty...

Uncle Jim and Aunt Shelley with Caleb - the best surrogate grandparents ever!!!

Kristin in search of more eggs

It didn't take long before Katie got the hang of it (especially when she found out there was candy inside the eggs...)

My two little cutie-poos in their Easter dresses that Jason's Mom made them

Inspecting their baskets

Caleb - still too young to appreciate a good present... ;)

Mike with his goodies

Uh-oh...we all know how much Jason's loves temporary tattoos!!! ;)

Rissy and her Twilight shirt

Me, Becky and Rissy admiring our skip-it toys ;)

Becky sniffing all the new baby smell off of Caleb

Oh no!!!! It's a room full of half naked guys applying tattoos on each other! This can't be good! ;)

Mike helping out Mark

Jason is overexcited...

Aunt Shelley comforting Caleb after his Daddy applies an "I heart Mom" tattoo to his tiny little hand!!! He hates it!! ;)

Michael showing off his tats ;)

He's starting to recover from the tragic tattoo incident...

Nooooo!!! He can't suppress the memory!!! ;)

Jason and Mark are apparently very proud of the work they've done ;)

To make matters worse, the guys ask me to take pictures of them with their new tattoos. I think they were going for a tough guy/trailer trash/red neck look. I think they pulled it off! ;)

More embarrassing photos of the red neck squad... ;)

After a fun-filled Easter Day...complete with temporary tattoos, we packed up the car and headed back to Houston. So far, we've been busy with home school lessons, feeding kids, changing diapers (when is Katie going to realize my need for her to use the potty?) and going to the gym after Jason gets off work. We've also enjoyed some of the local restaurants on the weekends and went to the Space Center. I'll write more about all that later though. For now - I must tend to my little Milk Hog (a.k.a. Caleb). Toodles! ;)

Kristin practices spelling some words on the window (with window markers of course...this is fun for Kristin, but it hasn't proved to be a good example for Katie - who now thinks it's okay to write on windows and walls with any writing instrument she finds fit to do the job)! Eek!

Kristin - my big little helper - with Caleb