Happy Easter!

We spent Easter in North Carolina this year for the first time since the year before Ethan was born. We had a great time. Not only did we get to visit with Grandma and Pa, but the Alexanders made the long trek up from Georgia to spend the weekend with us. We packed in as much as we could, and with the help of James and Jonathan, we even got some time to visit without little interruptions. We had lots of fun family time too. On Thursday night, we all arrived in time to go out for dinner.

Friday started out on the rainy side, so we dyed our Easter eggs then. The kids had fun seeing what happened if you used multiple colors, blocking colors with rubber bands and stickers, and playing with the dinosaur egg holders.
After the eggs, it cleared off and we headed to the zoo. It was quite busy, but we managed to check out their new dinosaur exhibit and see the gorillas and elephants before heading out for lunch.
Later we ordered pizza for dinner and took a tour of Grandma and Pa's property. We visited the ducks and Ethan instructed everyone where to walk. Then he showed his friends his Leapster Explorer.


Saturday morning the guys headed back to the zoo with the kids. The ladies went to the potteries. They managed to see all the animals they missed on Friday as well as revisit the dinosaur exhibit. The number of people made Friday look like the place was empty. When we finished with the potteries, Barbara and I were planning to meet them inside the zoo- when we saw that the line to get in was all the way across the bridge and up to the second parking lot, we decided we would meet them back at the house instead.


Later that afternoon, which turned out to be sunny and beautiful, we headed to the mini golf course. It was fun to watch the kids- Ethan had a hard time keeping the golf club on the ground, not realizing he could do some serious damage if he hit someone with it. 18 holes is still a little long for him, but he's getting the hang of it.

After dinner on Saturday, we did some cake decorating. We made a bunny cake and some mini bundt cakes. The Easter Bunny came and filled baskets. The three crocheted baskets were from me, not the Easter bunny. Those are bunny egg cozies you see inside.

The kids were all thrilled with their goodies from the bunny. Once they went through their baskets we did a bunny hat craft to try to let it warm up a little before we headed outside for the egg hunt.
 
They all had a lot of fun finding the eggs. The Easter Bunny hid them in the grass, which sounds easy but they were actually hard to see.
 
The bunny put seeds in the eggs he hid outside so the kids decided to plant them. They also had some fun blowing dandelion seeds.
 
After lunch, our friends headed back to Georgia. We spent some time outside playing. Grandma and Pa got a kite for Ethan and I am not sure who had more fun flying it. We also played ball a little and planted some pansies.