My Goodness!

What a month it has been! So, we spent Easter weekend with my sister and her family. My brother drove with us and did a lot of the driving (thank you Brendon!) and we had a great time. The kids had fun hunting for Easter eggs in the back yard. We hid eggs, and little Elmo, Disney Princess and Batman containers all over the yard. Avery was a crack up about it. If she spotted a Batman container, she would purposely bypass it even though it had the same candy in it as the other ones! Such a girl! She was the same way at the "egg hunt" we went to on Saturday. It was a huge field that was broken into different sections for different age groups. At exactly 10am all of the kids ran into the appropriate area and picked up as many goodies as they could fit into their baskets. Each section had treats laying all over the ground in plain sight. I was worried that Avery wouldn't participate - she can be so shy, she wouldn't even sit on the Easter Bunny's lap that day, even though she was the one who asked if she could go see him! Tristan and Allie loved all over him! So when the time came for them to all go "hunting" I worried that she would freak out with the 100+ other kids around her since we couldn't go in and help her. Nope! She had a ball searching for all of the goodies. The girl was on a mission and would bypass 10 things to get to one specific thing. It was so funny.

At one point she was about 50 yards away and looked up to show us what she had found. I thought, "Here we go, she's gonna freak out". But no, she just smiled and waved what she had and kept on going! The whole hunt lasted about 5 minutes. Once all of the goodies had been snatched up, that was it! But it was so fun! And of course, as soon as it was over, they wanted a treat out of their baskets!

Once we got home from our visit with Auntie Sis and Uncle Mark, Jeff's parents came in to town. We had a wonderful time with them during the 3 weeks we had together, and Avery is still talking about them. A lot of good memories were made.