Easter Weekend 2012

What a FUUUUUN weekend! 
Friday night, we had a wedding.  It was a girl who works for Rick...it was like "the boss" invite.  ;)  Vicki came over to watch Liam and Rowan and she brought Z and Sophie for a while, so Liam was in heaven and thank goodness Rowan went down for the night pretty easily.  The wedding was fun and it was really nice to get dressed up with the hubby again for a night out!

Saturday was an early morning.  Rowan actually slept till 6 am...got up once at 11 pm, did not even eat and went back until 6!  But then she was WIDE awake and ready to go at that time...I think Vicki is the baby whisperer or something!
We had plans to take Liam to an Egg Hunt at Elevate Life Church on Teel Pkwy. which started at 11 am.  Of course, Rowan took an extra long morning nap and woke up at 10:30...by the time we got out the door, it was 10:45 and we missed the egg hunt by FIVE minutes!!!  Darn naps!  I felt so bad for Liam...Rick even dropped me off and we RAN to the field just as the last few eggs were being spoken for.  :(  However, two different extra sweet kiddos saw that Liam did not have anything in his basket and shared some of their eggs with him.  Their parents should be very proud!  Of course, he is WELL aware now that they are filled with candy so he busted into all 3 right away!  He loves himself some sweets...just like dada!

After the hunt, we looked at the cars in the car show, I fed Rowan in their RIDICULOUSLY nice nursing room, and then we headed to Matitos for lunch.  It was SUCH a gorgeous day and we wanted to sit on the patio but it was all filled so we sat at a table inside facing the patio.  ;)

Rowan is always such a trooper!

Car just like pop used to have!

Rowan at lunch...she is still not very sturdy in the high chair...or sitting up :/

After lunch, we came home and both kiddos napped AT THE SAME TIME!  I am convinced they ONLY do this on the weekend, as Rowan is sitting right here with me after a 20 minute nap this afternoon....but it is nice to have that time with Rick.  We sat out back, filled the eggs for our egg hunt at home, hid the eggs, and then both even took a little catnap ourselves.  Liam woke up around 4, he ate a little snack and then quickly spied the eggs in the yard.  This year was just so much fun because he was SOOO aware of everything going on.  He kept yelling shoes, and turn (to turn the doorknob).  We headed out back to hunt the eggs down and he had so much fun.  Mommy and daddy learned not to put unwrapped jelly beans in the eggs and def. do not put them out in the yard too early---MOST eggs were covered in ants--UGH!  But we were able to salvage a few and Liam ate about 15 jelly beans, with some left over for later.

After the hunt, we played out back and then took a little walk around the neighborhood.  Then, it was time for dinner...steaks on the grill-my fave!  After dinner, we dyed eggs.  Liam thought it was hilarious when he would throw the egg to have "kelly" as he is calling me, catch it.  It was pretty funny but if I was not such a good catcher, could have really been a disaster!  ;)

Relaxing out back!

 Playing catch!  ;)
Both kiddos were sound asleep by 8 and we were so excited to put out the gifts.  Easter is SOOOO much easier than Christmas!  Took 10 minutes.  I bought Liam a play grill at Buy Buy Baby for 10 dollars!  It was the floor display and had some scratches and was missing the spatula so they took 20 dollars off!  Great deal and he loooooooved it!  Of course he loved the candy too and his crocs.  This boy is like his mama---LOVES shoes!  And Rowan got some Christmas presents we had not opened yet and a hooded towel.  ;)

Easter morning, Liam woke up at 6:30 (extra early) and super excited!  Rowan slept til 8 am, so it was nice alone time with the little man while he went through his presents from the Easter bunny. 
Church was at 9:30.  We got ready in record time and even had some time for pics out front. 

My handsome man!  Loving his pockets these days!

Me and my pretty girl~

My other handsome man and his pretty girl!
Both kids were soooo well behaved in church.  It is a joy taking them there every week.  After mass, we returned home to change diapers and find a place for brunch.  We decided to go to Gordon Biersch.  Did not need reservations and it was DELISH~not to mention 3 dollar mimosas!  ;)  There was a man playing some jazz.  Liam LOVED the music and got up to dance.  It was really cute. 

Liam finishing my fruit.  The breakfast burrito was amazing!  And you can see Rowan's ADORABLE fat arm.  Want to eat that on a daily basis.  And of course, the yummy mimosas! 
We returned home in the pouring rain and relaxed all day in our comfy clothes.  We were supposed to grill chicken ceasars for dinner, but the weather did not cooperate so we ordered chinese.  Random, but so good!

The kids in their favorite gear--diapers and nothing else!  How sweet is this!
Lastly, we did take them for pics with the Easter bunny last Wednesday night.  Rick met us at Willow Bend around 5 pm.  We wanted to avoid the weekend rush, so it really turned out to be a great time.  Both were wonderful as we waited only for 5 minutes.  The problem was that the bunny gave Liam his prize FIRST, before the pic, and I had to take it away...well, I could have let him hold it, but it was right in front of his face so....

these were the expressions we ended up with.  ;)
Happy Easter from the Blakes!

This week is back to reality!  I signed up for another race on May 5th so I need to re-train this tired body.  ;)  And Rick has a full week of work.  :(  But feel blessed to have every day with these beautiful babies!!!!