Happy Easter!

Easter is over once again and my kids are bouncing off of the walls with loads of sugar running through their veins, not to mention my veins- however I only wish it had the same effect of extra energy for me(not so much). Dave has about a million different projects going on, one being putting together the new play structure in our backyard for the kids and rebuilding our side fence so I decided to give him some time and go it alone with the kids to Easter egg hunts on Saturday. The first stop was Albertson's, which we were late to so the kids didn't get much just the few eggs their friends gave them so they wouldn't feel bad. Then I was off to the Stonebridge Ranch annual egg hunt only to find out that I wrote the wrong date down and it was actually the previous weekend- ugh my day was not going so well. So, I decided to brave the mass amounts of people and head to the McKinney Eggstravaganza. We got there early which was a very good thing because the kids were able to spend a lot of time at the petting zoo which I could not pull them away from. I was bummed that I left my camera in the car and didn't get any good pics of them holding the baby chicks and rabbits-so cute!

They had a bunch of games for the kids to play and win candy or small toys. They also had a bounce house, face painting, etc. We mostly just participated in the stuff that you didn't have to stand in line all day for.

Finally after 2 hours of fighting crowds, having to go pee, and practically starving to death the egg hunts began. They had it split up by age group so Paige went first. She was just interested in the candy that had fallen out of the eggs, she didn't care one bit about grabbing those eggs she just wanted to eat a piece of candy.

Ethan had his egg hunt next, which went so fast. He ran out there as fast as he could but there were so many kids he only got about 8 eggs, he was happy though.

Ethan with his friend Ashton.

Addyson had her egg hunt last and there was some real competition, after we went over some strategies she was off to do some damage- she did pretty well! Although I was really wishing I had asked Dave to come along, the kids had a great time and that is all that counts right?!




Easter Sunday the kids woke up and were on a hunt for their baskets. I made strawberry crepes and we got dressed in our Easter best and were off to 8:30 church, late of course.

Here are their Easter outfits, I only have the best looking kids ever.

Ethan got his first suit, which he was so excited about, now he gets to look like Daddy every Sunday.

Later that day we drove out to Arlington to spend some time with my brother and his family and my mom and stepdad. We thought it would be fun to have the kids have an Easter egg hunt so we filled more eggs with more candy and hid them in the house, it was really muddy outside because it rained all night and most of the day. Then we had a great Easter dinner and went home fat and happy. It was a pretty great weekend and we are sad it is over.