Wacky Wilkins': Fun in NY! (Part 1)

For Spring Break (and a Tax Season break) I decided to be CRAZY and take the kids to Buffalo to visit my sister. It was a total surprise to them and my sisters kids and I think they all loved it! They woke up that morning and acted like they were getting ready for school but then I told them we were actually going to get on a plane to go and see cousins! Lilly's first question was "but can we sleep over?" You bet Lil. Here they are playing princesses on the plane.

Eventually things got a little boring for this one and she fell asleep, with 10 minutes left in the flight! Don't fall asleep any earlier than that or anything Mabel! Thank goodness she was able to sleep for a little bit since we had to wait for our gate so we sat on the ground for a good 40 minutes.

When we landed it looked like this. Not exactly the spring break weather I was looking for but being with family is worth it! We got in late (and even later with the delay) so I felt bad my sister waited for us so long! She brought her little Kate to the airport so we could surprise her. When we got back to her house she had Sophia go and knock on the door. Bruce answered and saw Sophia and just said "hey". Then his eyes got really big and he yelled out "Jane! Sophia's here!"

The cousins were all so excited to see each other and had fun playing for a little bit until we made them go to sleep. The next day her kids had to go to school so the rest of us went to breakfast at a really yummy crepe place called "Break N' Eggs". Sophia loves crepes and Nutella just a little bit. She was in heaven!

When the kids got home from school we had fun playing with cousins! I totally love Mabel's outfit. A dress up, with an army coat and colorful hat. I also love that she has no shoes on! It's not like it was cold out there or anything! I also love how James put a nice white towel in the mud puddle at the bottom of the slide so that they could go down it. I think his mom loved that too.

I also brought along some fun Easter crafts from Grandma and the kids had fun making cards and other things. They also loved the dress ups just a little bit!

We also brought along some nail polish so the girls had a little foot bath before we painted nails.

Her kids didn't have school the next day (thank you Good Friday!) and so we had a movie night. The kids were pretty sure it would be complete without movie posters. Here's Sophia with "Megamind"

Lilly and Kate making their own poster. Side note - my sister and I were totally cracking up about how Lilly never made a normal face in pictures. This one kind of proved it!

More movie posters - Muppets and Megamind

Incredibles

and "Wreck it Ralph".

The next day we went to the zoo. It was a little freezing but we still had fun. They have a really fun zoo. It has an awesome Rain Forest in the middle that the kids just loved.

Later that afternoon my brother-in-law took the older kids to see "Oz The Great and Powerful". My sister and I took the little kids to Chuck E Cheese. My girls were in heaven! I have seriously not seen them that happy in awhile! Later Doug asked me if I knew I didn't have to go to New York to go to Chuck E Cheese. Silly Douglas. Mabel was absolutely in love with this horse! She kind of has a things for horses and rode this one about 100 times.

Here's miss Kate on the clock.

Mabel enjoyed the clock too.

Kate and Lilly on a "roller coaster".

That night we had wings for dinner and they were delicious!

The next morning we went to their church for their ward's Easter egg hunt. They hid 1300 eggs and each kid only got about 10! And I though Utah wards were big! Here's Lilly and Mabel waiting for the hunt to start.

And Sophia and Lilly post hunt.

Later that afternoon we colored eggs with cousins.

It was a pretty great time.

After that my brother-in-law took the older kids on a hike in the Niagara Falls area. Liza and I took the little ones to see the falls. It was a little chilly so we only got out to see horseshoe falls.

It was crazy how much ice there still was in the river!

While we waited for them to hike we drove up to this cutest little town called Lewiston. It was seriously the cutest place. I just loved it. It was also kind of interesting to learn about because it was the last stop in the Underground Railroad before the slaves went on to Canada. Here's a statue they have commemorating that.

The town was right on the water. It was so gorgeous! Across the river you could see Canada. There were some pretty big beautiful homes right on the water over there.