Catching up

Taking a 2-ish month break from the blog means that we're now behind on a lot of the happenings in the Gillespie family.  This will be my attempt to upload some of the best pictures from the last few months and fill you in on what we've been up to without writing the world's longest post.  I also can't promise that these pictures are posted in any particular order, mainly because with the amount of sleep I'm getting, I no longer have any idea what we did when!

This first batch of pics is from our impromptu trip to St. Louis.  Ryan's youngest brother and Gavin and Dec's favorite Uncle (jk!), Kevin, played basketball at North Central College, and this year he led his team to a berth in the NCAA tournament for DIII schools.  The first and second rounds were held at Washington University in St. Louis, so on a whim, we decided to pack up the kids and head down there to watch Kev play.  The trip was a total success.  The boys were really good at Kevin's games, and we had a blast at the Magic House and just hanging out in our hotel.  Here are some of our favorite pics from that trip:

Our fam of 4 posing on the court before Kev's second round game vs. Wash U.  NCC won!

 The Kevin Gillespie super fans on the court after NCC's win over Wash U.

 Declan enjoying our trip to the Magic House.

 I have to be honest, I thought it was fun to sit in the Cat machinery too!

 Toddlers at work

 Mommy and Dec

 Daddy and Gav having a blast in the shadow exhibit

 Neat

 All that fun at the Magic House wore Gavin and I out, time for a nap!

 "It's how many more miles back to Mundelein?!"

 All smiles after a fun trip to St. Louis!

This next collection of photos is from Easter weekend.  My school gets Good Friday off, so we spent that morning at the egg hunt in Mundelein.  It was kind of chaos, and my group of girlfriends have already decided to just host our own egg hunt in our backyard next year!  After that, we headed out to Geneseo for the rest of Easter weekend.  Gav was excited to see his cousin Bryce, since Shane and Karyn are back in town awaiting Kailyn's arrival.

Gav and his buddy Caleb ready to hunt for eggs!

 My friend Alicia and I staged this picture after the chaos that was the real Easter egg hunt.

 Gav and his buddies Olivia, Eli and Caleb.

 Bryce and Gavvers playing together.

 Dec and Uncle CJ battle each other for the "shiniest dome" award

 Easter morning!  Gav loved Easter this year, and still wants to "play Easter"

 Showing off his loot from the Easter Bunny

 Brycers gets in on the egg hunt action

 This egg took a team effort to find

 My three favorite boys

 The cousins spending some quality time with Grandma

 Bryce is not amused by Grandpa's silliness

 Bryce and Gav team up to take out Grandpa in a tickle war

Dec and Grandpa in their Sunday best for Easter mass 

 Dec showing off his style

 A nice family pic with Great Grandma at church

 Chillin with Uncle Bren