Happy Easter!!

Do you ever have like 23 things on your to do list but 

it all feels so overwhelming that you deliberately

waste time doing other stuff that probably 

doesn't need to happen?  Nope? Me neither. 

But.....here's an Easter post about two 

weeks late because I'm avoiding

all of the other things that need to be done. 

Also, I'm going to go above and beyond

the blogger call of duty and in lieu of adorable

Easter photos (all of which I loved from other families)

and post a few mediocre family Easter photos with

some details I remember from the weekend.  

Our Easter weekend began on Saturday

with Rob and I driving over to Dayton

(Max was already there from his Spring

Break 2017 week-o-fun).   We left almost

immediately for an egg hunt at Forest Field

Park again.  In our rush to leave the house we left

his jacket behind..#parentfail....so Grandpa and Papa Rob

left to retrieve it and barely made it back

to see Max reluctantly pick up a few green

eggs.  He maintained that he already

had eggs at home..and honestly I think the 

hyped up "competition" part of it was

stressing him out. 

 

 

We were trying to kill some time 

before this food truck rally at Home Depot....

so we went off to one of my favorite spots

in Dayton (especially in the spring!!)

Cox Arboretum....because

#plantladyforlife and it did not 

disappoint...Max had fun counting

and point out turtles in the pond, 

climbing the rocks, pointing out the 

new bridge, and running between

the rows of crab apple trees :)

 

 

(Still trying to get the perfectly timed

jumping shot of everyone). :)

 

 (Gotta stop and smell those lilacs!!)

 Max was literally so excited every time

he spotted a turtle.

 He was getting tired of walking...so

he settled for his favorite perch atop Papa Rob. :)

We ate lunch at this food truck rally thing

at the local Home Depot before heading

back home and getting down to the business 

of dying Easter Eggs!

 

 

 Initially, Max let us know he would just

be supervising this egg dying task...

but I knew that wouldn't last long. 

As soon as the eggs came out and his 

stool got pulled up to the counter...he

was bossing everyone around!

 

 

 

Even at 35 years old ....this tradition

never gets old.  I still LOVE it!!

And I love having all the extra

hard boiled eggs around after :)

 Papa Rob is known for coming up with 

super weird color patterns on his eggs...

Auntie Stacy left hers in a couple different

colors until she achieved the perfect "mauve" 

and Max was definitely the splasher...plopping

the eggs in with reckless abandon. :) 

 Also - random but helpful tidbit from Mims - 

she has kept literally what seems to be every

egg dipper and tool that we've used over the

years...and so we have lots of "equipment"

to dye our eggs with.  The "egg tongs" were

quite helpful for little hands. 

The night ended with a trip to the park

and carry out pizza from Marions (yum!). 

This worked out well for the Easter Bunny...

who had a lot of work to do! :)

*Somehow* the Easter Bunny

managed to cram too many a lot of

presents into a tiny Paw Patrol Easter 

Basket (that Mims was coerced into

purchasing even though Mama gave 

a hard no). The bunny hid the basket under

the desk at Mim's house.

(sidenote: Max asked me as he was

falling asleep if the Easter

bunny was a real bunny or pretend? 

And I panicked and sort of glossed

over the details of that....)

 Max was pleased with his spoils...

a new Paw patrol cup, bath tabs, 

bubbles, band aids, a small set of Legos....

and it seemed the Easter Bunny had 

a soft spot for books...*ahem*

 

 

 He did mostly okay at church...except 

for telling us 152 times that he was 

"ready to go home" (insert eye roll). 

So I ended up holding him for the last 20 

minutes or so...which wasn't awesome

but it was manageable. 

Our Easter Brunch was at the Station House

(which is part of St.Leonard's) -the pros being

someone else preparing the food and cleaning 

the mess.  The cons being Mims got real pissed

when we got charged for orange juice and coffee

(which we though were part of the brunch 

package)....but I didn't hate one bit of my 

bacon, sausage, and omelet creation. :) 

In fact, I ate it all.  

The above is literally the only picture we got

of everyone in their Easter finest....because

we spent the rest of the day relaxing...eating 

jelly beans (okay, that was just me) - and 

making up "scavenger hunts" for Max. 

Hope you had a Hoppy Happy Easter! 

xoxo

p.s. my mom still had a small honey baked

ham for "second brunch" and it was delish
p.p.s. Max wore his new paw patrol jammies

on the ride home....passed out...but woke

up in time to demand more bedtime stories. 

p.p.p.s. I forgot to take all the extra

hard boiled eggs (picture real sad Carrie face emoji here).  

Alleluia to you and yours!