Easter Celebration: Part II

Finally, I have a few minutes to update from our busy Easter weekend.  Saturday morning, Austin and I made some cupcakes to take to Jordan's parents' house on Sunday.  I let Austin pick out the cake mix and the food coloring (green) for the batter.  He obviously shares my love for the kitchen and his favorite part is licking the spoon! :)  I love that he loves to cook & bake with Mommy!  I told Jordan I was going to get him an apron, and he thought they might be a little too girly.

That afternoon, one of the local churches was hosting an Easter carnival and egg hunt.  Unfortunately, it fell right during his usual naptime, so I wasn't sure how he would do.  He played a couple games, munched on a snowcone, and even got in the bounce house.  Of course, Mommy had to get in there the first time with him and climb the ladder to the slide. But after I went with him the first time, he was a mad-man going up all by himself.  I was so proud of him!

Unfortunately, shortly after the bounce house, it was still going to be another 20 minutes or so before they hunted eggs.  And we were pretty close to a meltdown.  He wasn't even talking, only nodding his head yes or no.  So, I decided to make a bee-line for the car.  He would have plenty of other opportunities to hunt eggs over the weekend.  But, the pastor stopped us at the car and gave Austin an entire sack of filled eggs!  Needless to say, this put a smile on his face right away.

Once we got home, we hid a couple of the eggs for him to find in the front yard before he laid down for a nap.  Then when he got up, he hunted eggs again.

And as usual, Chase slept through the festivities. :)  I'm sure next year, he'll be more into it.

Later that evening, we went and had our Easter dinner at Chili's with Katrina and Logan.  Yeah, Chili's; we're a pretty exciting bunch. :) And Austin loved playing with all of his goodies from his Easter basket from them.

After we got home from dinner, we decided to color eggs.  This was Austin's first attempt at coloring eggs and he loved it.  However, I did have to steal him away from watching his new Shrek movie, but I think he was glad. :) (But I hate how grown up he looks in the picture!)

On Easter morning, we gave the boys their Easter baskets, and Austin showed Chase his card.  He's so thoughtful!

After enjoying breakfast with Meow Meow and LoLo on Sunday morning and playing outside, we headed out to Jordan's parents' house for the rest of the day.  We got to visit with family and eat a delicious ham lunch.  Then Austin hunted for eggs with his two cousins.

And once again, can you guess what Chase did most of the day?  Yep, he slept.  Ugh, if I could sleep as much as this kid does, I would be the happiest person in the world!

And Austin definitely enjoyed all of the jelly beans and other candy.  I think it's fair to say that his meals over the weekend consisted of alot of sugar.  Hey, I'm choosing my battles these days!  After getting home, cleaning up the tornado that had hit our house over the weekend, I was pooped. It was definitely a busy weekend, but happy to spend it with special people in our lives.  And then back to work today.  Although, I did have one of my most productive days at work today, but more on that later. I'm off to get some shut eye.