Busy yet Fun Easter weekend - part 1

The Easter weekend started out with shopping at the Outlet mall in St. Augustine with mom and Brody on Friday. It was a long day but of course as usual Brody ended up with all the clothes. As the day went on I could kind of tell Brody was starting to get hoarse so I was a little concerned that he would be sick for Easter. Later that night he did start running a fever.

I finally gave in and let Brody ride one of the cars.

Saturday was our church's annual Easter egg hunt at Paul & Lynnda Cook's house (which Brody calls them Unc Paul & LeLe). Brody woke up with a slight fever so we gave him some Motrin hoping he would feel okay to go to the egg hunt. He seemed okay just very lethargic and we assumed it would be okay since he would be outside and not really in direct contact with other kids. He was so cute with his Easter "bucket" as he called it - thank goodness I got a decent picture BEFORE we left.

When we got there we checked out the BIG horse and donkeys. Check out Brody feeding them - he didn't seem too scared at all. You could tell he wasn't himself because he didn't really run around - just walked around in la la land - it was so sad.

LeLe helping Brody feed one of the donkeys.

This year at the egg hunt, Kari brought her little girls' pet bunny - Bugs for pictures. He was so cute and all the little kids were able to take a picture with the bunny. He wasn't even scared of the bunny - the bunny had different thoughts. I think we traumitized the poor thing.

Check out Kari's blog to see some of the other pictures she took - she did a great job.


This is a good friend of mine, Clair, at work (I also went to JU with her and she was in my wedding) her little girl, Emma. Not sure what they were trying to feed the bunny.

There was a hayride for the kids, so the adults could hide the eggs while they were gone. Brody did pretty good finding the eggs, but once again he seemed in la la land.

Brody, Papa, and Sara Lynn leading the hayride.

Brody and Tyler Hodges - They are a month a part and every year they have had their picture taken together at the Easter egg hunt. It's so cute to watch them grow up together.


Brody pushing Brent Sikes around in the pink car - yes this picture will be used later in life.

We finally left around 1:15 and he passed out within 5 minutes and slept for 3 hours. While he slept, Jason and I did a Clean House act on the garage - everything out of it and put in separate piles - keep, sell, or toss. It felt so good to have this done - one of the many things on my "To Do" list before the baby comes - sorry no pictures of the finished product. Trust me though it is a 100 times better then it was.

Late that night, all 3 of us colored Easter eggs. I haven't done this in probably 20-25 years so it was pretty neat. Brody was interested for about the first 15 minutes and then he was ready to move on to something else, so daddy and mommy had to finish up. Here's a few pics and even the finished products.