easter weekend

we had a great easter weekend! we were so lucky to have tyler's mother fly in and spend the weekend with us. it flew by, but that always seems to happen when family is in town. we kept ourselves busy!
of course with it being easter weekend, we thought it would be a great time to decorate some easter eggs. we knew this would be a big hit with the kids. they decorated our big bowl of eggs in no time flat.  tanner even had a little taste of a boiled egg. (not his favorite thing).

examining the egg.  tanner was serious about his work.

katelyn was definitely more careful than tanner, but she didn't hesitate to drop and egg in, take it out and move onto the next one.

tanner tasting the boiled egg.  he wastn't a fan.

the whole gang.  i love that tanner is still trying his hardest to get as dirty as possible.

we also decided to drive up to madison to check out our state's capital.  we took a tour of the capital, but i can't say i heard  a ton of it. tyler and i took turns walking around with tanner during the tour.  he is not at an age where he will sit for something like that.

a replica of the liberty bell.

in efforts to try to conserve energy when building the capital, they decided to include skylights in almost (maybe all?) all of the rooms. the plan was to keep lights off and just use natural lighting to see.  sadly, the plan didn't work like they had hoped.  even with those large skylights they still have to turn on the lights.  and did you know that there is one lady in charge of changing every single light bulb in the capital.  before they changed over to energy saving lightbulbs she was changing a little over 100 lightbulbs a day.  now she changes around 14.

lady liberty herself.

the dome from inside.  it was beautiful.  do you see the red dot?  that's a red balloon that has been stuck up there for quite a while.

we also checked out the madison botanical gardens.  too bad we went at a time when nothing was growing yet, but it was still fun.

we had to keep an eye on our little runner because you were not allowed to touch any of the gold paint on this building.  i'm not sure why we let him walk on it.

one of the days grandma was here we visited the village of wauwatosa.  there were a lot of cute, quant stores to check out.  one of our favorites was a store that only sold olive oil.  they had the olive oil in these big containers where you could walk around and taste test before buying.

it was a busy, fun weekend with grandma!