Theresa Marie: Easter Weekend 2009

This weekend was SO much fun! Spending time with family and having so many fun things to do with them is always a blessing! Friday night, we headed to Brookings and spent the night at my parents house. We got to go out to eat at Chinese with Kevin (my lil brother), Eliza, ML and my mom. My dad did his tradition with Audrey while the rest of us ate Chinese.... taking her out to Arby's and then to Wal-Mart to go on rides! :) She LOVES that and was really looking forward to it!

Saturday morning, we headed out to our next tradition... the egg hunt!!! This year it was SOOO nice outside! This was only 10am in this photo and already it was so nice out!

Audrey was super excited to go on an egg hunt. Really it was just tons of candy and toys spread out on the ground outside. I like how they break it up by age...

Audrey went out into the hunt all on her own and came back with a HUGE bucket full! I didn't think she'd be able to fill it up this full!

She had SO much fun doing it on her own. And to our surprise, there were mostly skittles and nerds in her basket (which are both "safe" foods for her)... along with toys AND she won a free kids meal at Applebee's! How neat! :)

After the "egg hunt", we headed to see "Rel" at starbucks... she made Audrey a hot chocolate from my leftover milk :) hee hee.

AND, just like momma, she drinks it to the last sip! Here she's on Aunt Michele and Uncle Jeremy's deck.... we went to help color eggs at their place when we were done at starbucks.

THEN, when we got back to grandma's and grandpa's, Grandpa took Audrey out to sit on his cycle! She really liked that! He even turned it on for her so she could honk the horn! :D

Saturday night, we were able to go out with A LOT of our family! my grandparents, some of my aunts and uncles and both of my brothers as well as my sil and her kids and essy! It was nice to eat dinner with everyone!

Sunday morning the girls woke up to Easter Baskets. We don't do the whole easter bunny thing, so they know it's from us :) I didn't go crazy... maybe crazier than most LOL. Most all of this stuff I got on sale and the baskets we re-use for them every year, which is neat :)

Audrey LOVED that she had nail polish in her basket... her first nail polish she's received from us... she's been asking to paint her fingers, so I thought this would be fun!

She also got this CUTE hat.... I thought it'd go well with the hip hop moves she's learning in dance class :) She also got a dvd, some candy and a big chocolate bunny that one of my friends found (it's hard to find easter chocolate that is peanut free!)

Here's Eliza with her easter basket! She's great at the "cheese" look. LOL. She also LOVED the little hershey chocolate eggs!

Here's Audrey waiting so patiently with her easter dress on while I paint her fingernails for the first time! :)

After church on sunday morning, we headed to family lunch. Audrey was SO cute with the eggs....

First, she cracked the egg (daddy showed her how) and then she thought she needed a fork to peel the egg..... I love the look on her face in these photos!

She thought the white of the egg was part of the shell as well, which is hilarious.... also, she was talking to the fork! ROFL! "come on fork! you can do it, fork....." LOL

HMMM is that the EGG?! No honey... that's just the yolk on the inside.......... good thing daddy likes eggs, cause she did this to a few more too :) Whatever keeps em busy!

After lunch and naps, we headed to the circus!!! which is turning into another easter tradition for us :) hee hee. Audrey LOVED the circus! Did I mention that last week, I told her we were going to the circus and she laughed SO hard that she actually cried! Yeah - that's how much she loves going to the circus!

Last year, she went on a pony ride, so I knew she'd want to go again this year. Daddy is always nice enough to hold her hand on the ride. :)

Look how intently they are watching the circus! I just thought it was neat when I looked over and everyone was watching so intently! :)

We had to leave after the circus, which was hard.... it's not always easy to say goodbye to family.

TODAY was a busy day too! This morning, we headed over to our friend Amy's where we got to play with Abby and Hannah and also Keeley and her siblings! We all headed out to Central to play and jump on the bouncy house stuff! It was SO much fun and allowed the girls (mostly Audrey, as Eliza is still a hip clingy girl) to run off some energy. The church was selling lunch too, so we sat down to watch some veggie tales while we ate walking tacos and hot dogs! mmm!

Afterward, we headed home for naps, which didn't last long. Audrey only slept an hour and Eliza not much longer than that, so we headed to the Fire Station for a tour that was set up through the MOMS club. I really wanted to go to this, but thought the girls would sleep too long for us to go! So I was surprised when they both woke up just in time for us to head out the door and eat snacks along the way :)

Audrey had SO much fun! First they showed us a safety video and then we went out to see the fire truck and learn more from the firemen.

The firemen were SO great with the kids! I was really amazed! The last thing they let the kids do was to shoot water from the hose to hit a garbage can... Audrey LOVED this! Above is her FIRST time shooting the water......