Easter With Stepkids - 2012

Every now and then, it’s all about the stepkids like it should be.

Last Saturday, we got to see Stepkid #4 play lacrosse. Now, some of you may remember in last year’s posting One Wee Problem After Another, that Mark and I ended up rooting for the wrong kid at a lacrosse game and taking some amazing photos of the wrong kid scoring three times. Well, my sister and her family were visiting from Illinois this year to make sure we rooted for the right kid. Stepkid #2 was along as well. We all verified this is a photo of Stepkid #4.

After Alma College got their butts kicked 15 to 5, I asked the family to pose in the middle of the lacrosse field, because well, it was there and it seemed like the thing to do.

Family on the field. Photo by some nice lady.

Later, I posed with my sister and dad, because my sister lives 8 hours away and it will be a few months before I’ll see her again.

: Aby, Dad, Amy.

I hugged Aby’s family good-bye and and Mark, Stepkid #2, Stepkid #4 and I headed home to meet up with the other two stepkids. I must say, one of the cool things about being a stepmom is when the four kids still want to come over to color Easter eggs even though they are all 21 and older. And of course, being 21 and older meant that we could drink beer while coloring. How fun is that?

A black and white kitty amongst some happy people.

Here are some other cuties.

A chicken amongst some other fun critters.

I do one egg a year. Pretty exciting, huh?

Afterwards, I asked the kids to pose with me because . . .

The four stepkids posing with me after an exhausting couple hours decorating eggs.

. . . after the youngest stepkid graduates in two weeks, one kid will be off to Yellowstone National Park for the summer and another is headed to Germany for several months. It will be September before I’ll see them all at the same time again.

Later, I had the kids pose with my mom and “the fiance” during a rousing game of Pit because well, that seemed like the thing to do, too.

Indeed, it was a whirlwind of fun over the weekend, with stepkids along for the ride the whole time–watching lacrosee with my sister and her family, spending time with my dad and stepmom, playing Pit with my mom, and coloring eggs. It is great being a stepmom.