Impromptu Barbeque

Yesterday we hosted a last minute planned cookout. Eric and Krystal supplied most of the eats, though Kyle made our summer pasta salad. Oh, and he made brownies, can't forget chocolate stuff. The boys did the grilling and us girls cleaned up the backyard. We were later joined by Blaze, Mariska & Miss Audrey. Kyle decided to reinstate the kiddie pool and Mariska got her first at home dip in the pool.

Afterwards some of the gang went outside to toss some balls around. First in the driveway and them to a big open field nearby. Isaac came home just in time to head out to the field with Kyle, Eric & Audrey.

First Time at First Landing State Park

Day three of Spring Break and Isaac and I went to First Landing State Park. We accidentally took the wrong path and ended up walking a mile before we decided to turn around. While not planned it was a really pleasant walk, though Krystal and Isaac were definitely done by the time we were done. The trail was littered with little stops for exercise. There were crunches, push-ups, monkey bars (which were called the overhead ladder, oh fancy) and more. Afterwards we stopped for lunch at Famous Uncle Al's, hot dogs all around. Technically Krystal had corn dogs.

Easter Weekend

Our neighbors (the best neighbors I've ever had, btw) invited Isaac to their church for an Easter egg hunt on Saturday. Kyle had to work but luckily Blaze was able to take us, not so luckily we ran late and having the wrong directions did not help us make up time. It all worked out in the end as there was still plenty of candy to go around, there just wasn't so much in the way of hunting.

Saturday night was spent keeping up with family tradition of dying Easter eggs. This year we headed over to Kate and Shawn's new apartment for the eggstravaganza (sorry). Isaac and Emily really enjoyed themselves. it was great seeing Emily as a happy toddler, she was warm and fuzzy. I got hugs and heard Emily say my name for the first time!

Sunday we were supposed to do another egg hunt at Hunt Club Farm with Blaze and Audrey, then meet up with Eric & Krystal for lunch and a visit to the St. Jude Dream House. Our plans got skewered slightly since Audrey couldn't get to Hunt Club until later so we had to go without her and Blaze. But then there was a monkey wrench in our revised plans when we discovered that Hunt club wasn't offering the egg hunt for free or for that matter cheap. Since spending $31 to egg hunt was not in our plans we had to cut it out. We did however enjoy brunch at Cagney's and the dream house.

On Sunday we also gave Isaac his Easter basket. Well, first he gave him a tiny Easter basket, we knew he had already seen the basket he was getting so I threw him off the trail by telling him that the basket he saw was for Mariska and that I had made a different one for him. So no doubt Isaac was expecting a big ol' basket after seeing 'Mariska's basket'. His face when he got the small basket? Pure disappointment, brave child that he is, he disguised his desire to cry and just accepted the small one. He was much happier when he got his real basket. We got real smiles for that one.

Receiving a tiny Easter basket.

His real Easter basket.