Easter Weekend Fun

Where to begin? First of all I apologize that this is so long, but again, you can skim and skip to read what you want, but again, this is for our family history and journal, so thanks for bearing with me!

Saturday was the first day after two weeks of being sick that I felt somewhat better, so we decided to take advantage of Josh's day off and go have some fun. We started the morning (I mean 12:00 pm hehe) off by going to IHOP for some silver dollar pancakes! We then set out for a huge day of shopping. We had no idea what we were getting ourselves into.

Earlier, I had gathered up all of the gift cards that we have received over the years. We're not very good at remembering we have them, and they sit in our wallets! So, we pulled some out that we got for our wedding 3 YEARS AGO! We had some to Walmart, Babies R Us, JC Penney, Dillards, Subway, Hobby Town, Old Navy, Express, Blockbuster, Cold Stone and more! We thought it was time to get going on them!

Well, we decided to hit Walmart first. We had no idea how much was on the cards so we went to customer service to find out. They were so old that they couldn't pull it up so we had to call their customer service line. Well, one had $10 on it, but the other card, to our surprise, had a whoppin' $100 on it! WHOO HOO!!! Seriously...we had no idea! We were dying! So, we went and got some plastic Easter eggs and a couple bags of candy eggs to hide. But our greatest blessing in all of this, is that I've been worrying about our computers gong out and me losing all of our pics and videos. I have tried to copy the videos we have onto CDs with no luck. It keeps telling me the format is wrong, so my dad suggested we buy a back up hard drive. Well, they're about $100. So, we decided that this was a sign that we were supposed to buy it! hehe :). No, really, I can't tell you the peace of mind I have now that all of my pics and videos are safe!

After Walmart, we headed to Babies R Us and we spent it on Diaper bags so we don't have to run the diapers outside after every change! yeah! Then we went to Toys R Us and we decided with the gift card we wanted to get Holden a walker. We found the walker we wanted and then we noticed they were having a sale buy one get one free on any Fisher Price Toy! So, because his walker was Fisher Price, we got to choose any Toy under $20 for FREE!!!! Man this was DEFINITELY our day! We had some money left so we went to the board game section! Guess what, another buy one get one half off! So, we got Taboo and Are You Smarter Than a Fifth Grader DVD Game. I'll just say this, we've played it and Josh is not smarter than a fifth grader and neither am I! hehe Although, I did win one game! Fun stuff! Now we just gotta find people to Play Taboo with us!

After that we went to Subway and after a half hour wait ERRRR!- we got our lunch! Then we went to Hobby Town and found Settlers. We were sad to give up on our old Settlers game that is lost somewhere in this great wide world. We have no idea at whose house we left it. So, we finally broke down and decided to buy it again. We spent the night covering the back of every piece with rubber backing so they don't slide around. Needless to say, after doing that we did NOT feel like playing it! hehe

After Hobby Town, we (rather Holden) had had enough. I was so surprised that Holden was so good for those four hours we were shopping. We decided to head home to check out our spoils! My plan was to do an Easter Hunt, but I was honestly beat, so we just spent the night relaxing and playing 5th Grader.

Sunday morning we got up, I finished some stuff for primary music time, we got ready and man, it was a rough morning. We got to church not early, not 5 minutes late, but 15 minutes late. The whole morning I was ranting how I didn't want to be late...and what'd ya know? I'm late. UGH! But we were able to enjoy a beautiful meeting. The choir sang a descant to I Know That My Redeemer Lives while the congregation sang the chorus and it was beautiful! The spirit was amazing! It was also my first week of being back to church after 2 weeks of being sick, so I think maybe I was extra emotional. After being gone from church, you realize how beautiful and what a blessing it is to be able to go every week.

We headed home, picked up some things and had an amazing visit from our Home Teachers. We love them so much and can't wait every month until they come! They are wonderful to talk to and then they always bring the spirit into our home so strongly with their beautiful lessons. Thanks to Bro. Holdsworth and Bro. Hilton for your time especially on Easter. Sorry to Liliana for keeping your husband over a half an hour! :))

After the home teachers left, we decided to play Easter bunny and got the baskets ready and Josh put Holden's walker together. I then found the song Here Comes Peter Cottontail on the internet and played it to wake up Holden from his nap! (Thanks to Kim for calling in the morning and singing it to me bringing back many wonderful memories!) I had to pass on the memories of my mom singing it to us growing up!

We put Holden's bunny ears on and brought him out. He loved his walker and his Easter Egg basket. I hid little eggs around the house and with some help he found them all and was so smart and good to grab them and then put them right into his Easter basket and not in his mouth! hehe He did try to quickly sneak one or two when we weren't looking, and when I would catch him, he would just start to laugh. So cute! He knew he was playing a game trying to see if we could catch him!

We then dyed some Easter eggs, some glitter, and some camouflage. I'm not very good and dying eggs...I'll just admit right now. Oh well, they turned out colored and that's all that matters!

After our egg dying session, we wanted to take advantage of the beautiful weather outside so we wanted to to an egg hunt with the plastic eggs outside. We went outside and Wongs had already FILLED the yard with their eggs and it looked like they had a ton of company at their house. So, we decided to go to a nearby field to hide them. It was nice and quiet. We took blankets, and I sat with Holden while Josh "hid" the eggs in the grass. You can imagine they were all in plain sight! Holden had fun picking up the eggs and then later opening them all. We then walked on the path with him. He was just excited to be outside. We read some books and by that time it was getting chilly so we decided to call it a day. We came home and all crashed and took naps! It was a beautiful day. It was such a blessing to be with my husband and baby. We were sad not to see our family but I didn't want to give anyone what I've had this past 2 weeks, so we tried to make the best of it and it turned out lovely. We hope everyone had a wonderful Easter!