Weekend Fun

we had a great weekend. dan's mom came in for a visit, ethan celebrated his 3rd birthday and we had our Easter egg hunt at the church.

i can't believe ethan is 3!! friday morning i held him in my lap and told him the story about the day he was born. he was all curled up on my lap and i could not help but get teary-eyed telling him about it. time really does fly. i can remember his birth like it was yesterday.

my blue-eyed baby boy!

we had the egg hunt saturday even though it was pouring down rain! there was no way i was going to reschedule it, so when it started sprinkling, i announced the egg hunt was starting - NOW! there were kids running everywhere. after the hunt we just took everything inside. it was not a big deal, the kids had a great time despite having to play indoors. i was a little bummed they could not bounce in the bounce house i rented. but the guy told me i could have it again for half price. i'll take that deal!

elliot had a great time at his first egg hunt. he's walking all over the place. it's hard to keep up with him. i was on the other side of the fellowship hall running an egg and spoon race and i caught a glimpse of elliot on the floor. i noticed he was chewing on something (which is sooo not unusual) so i watched him a little longer. then i saw a friend of ours grab a bottle of bubbles from him. some how he got into the bubbles and was chewing on the wand. yuck.

we did not get to take any pictures of the kids outside today because of the cold and wet, but we did take a few after church. dan tried taking several of them standing, but elliot just wanted to walk away...

then it was hard to get all of them to smile and not talk...

elliot kept trying to get away...

finally we gave up on getting them to take a group picture, so dan had emily and ethan stand uby the fireplace. dan asked emily to turn sideways and smile. ethan mimicked what she was doing...i'm afraid we've got america's next top preschool models here. i have no idea where they learned such a look!!