Easter Celebration

We had such a great week of beautiful weather which came at the perfect time for one of our favorite holidays, Easter.  We started the week with an Easter egg hunt at Owen's school.  It was the first of four that he would complete this week.

With the mention of what Owen might find inside his eggs, he was grasping the idea of this Easter Egg hunt thing pretty quickly.

Here is the playground where the egg hunt was held at Owen's school...

 So serious...

 He LOVES the Easter basket he made - isn't it cute?!

The second Easter egg hunt was in our neighborhood.  We decided to do this one in an open field with some of our little neighbor buddies.
We lined the kids across the sidewalk before doing a countdown, then it was every man for himself.

Fun times with our little buddies...

The third egg hunt was at the neighborhood country club.  We got to meet the Easter bunny for the first time and hunt for eggs. 

Hanging out with his ladies...

Owen's favorite part of this egg hunt was getting to play on the putting green afterwards...

Owen and Grayson woke up Sunday morning to an Easter basket with some goodies inside.  And yes, he is wearing Christmas jammies, oops!

We dressed the boys in their Sunday best (of course we didn't get a photo) and went to Mass on Easter Sunday.  We were looking forward to hearing Luke and Ellie sing in the church choir...

Mass didn't exactly go as planned, we were a little distracted by our two boys who didn't cooperate during the hour long service.  The bribing of Easter candy and the excitement of toys were wearing out, Owen had to be taken out about 30 minutes after Mass started.  By the time I left with Grayson who was ready to eat and take a nap, Owen was laying on the sidewalk outside of church throwing a bit of tantrum.  This is the life with a two year old, we are hoping to be forgiven for our absence in church lately.  It just isn't the easiest thing to force two boys who have different nap schedules to sit and be quiet during an hour and 15 minute service.  This is only a phase, right?!?

Then on to the next part of our day, our fourth and final Easter egg hunt and brunch with the Majors.  We were so lax about this one that everyone hunted eggs with plastic baggies and I would say it was probably Owen's favorite egg hunt yet.  The older kids were showing him the ropes and he was having a great time!

Even Grayson got in on the action...

We had a great first Easter as a family of four.  These boys are keeping us busy but it is so much fun to see Owen and Grayson experience things for the first time.  

Beautiful Spring Days

We have finally been feeling the warmth of the sunshine again and have been able to walk around the yard with no shoes on to feel the grass beneath our feet.  It is so nice after such a LONG and drawn out winter.  Thankfully the warm weather came at a perfect time to enjoy many fun things around Lexington.

First up, playtime with our neighbors...

Our friends had a cookout before the final four game, we were pretty excited and all the kids were dressed in blue to cheer for their favorite Wildcats!  We won that game and it was on to the championship.  Grayson even learned the UK chant...

Sadly we lost the championship game, I thought we had it in the bag.  Maybe next year.

On to more fun outdoors....Daddy played his first kickball game of the season at Jacobson Park....

These boys were too interested in Grayson to play attention to the game.

Next, feeding the ducks at Jacobson...

Then we went to Breakfast with the Babies.....

We bought tickets to this event a couple of months ago, we heard so many good things about it and knew Owen would love it.  It is a breakfast at Shaker Village in Harrodsburg, Kentucky.  After you eat in the dining area of this historic hotel, you can walk around the beautiful grounds and pet baby animals, sometimes they even let you feed the animals.

We met up with some friends and had a derby race...

 How cute are these three kiddos?  We have known one another since they were 6 months old, just babies!

Then it was off to see more animals...

This was such a perfect activity to kick off the beginning of spring.

After breakfast with the babies, everyone was wiped out so we went home to nap.  After we (and I mean all four of us) rested, we walked to Jacobson Park for Kite Fest.

These two love each other SO much!  They giggled the whole walk to the park.

Our friends Eddie and Lisa came in for the weekend from Tennessee, they went Keeneland in the morning and came to kite fest with us afterwards.  Owen and Grayson LOVED having baby Natalie at our house to play.  I am sure they will fight over this gorgeous lady one day.

We then went to our first birthday party at the park this year - to celebrate this little guy's second birthday.....

Then after wearing shorts and sandals all weekend, I woke up to this Tuesday morning...

The warm weather is returning soon and we have many things to look forward to this Easter weekend!!