Easter

We decided to take a very last minute trip to St. Louis for Easter for a quick trip. We had originally planned on going, but we decided against it since we knew we’d be up for Karen & Greg’s baby boy soon and they were going to be visiting Greg’s family out of town. Come Thursday we had already had our neighborhood Easter Egg hunt, Collin was on Spring Break and we were feeling the effects of having no family in town so we decided to go up last minute – it’s only an 8 hour drive. It rained almost the entire way and Carson didn’t sleep much during the drive, so we were second-guessing our decision. We had a wonderful time and the boys both did GREAT on the way home Easter Monday so we were so glad to go. Karen & Greg were able to come back from their trip in time for Easter dinner at Mike’s parents’ house.

Collin and Carson had been getting ready for Easter for a month. I really had no idea that Carson would be old enough to enjoy it, but picking up things, putting them in a basket and carrying them around is one of his favorite activities. So we had Easter Egg hunts in the house for WEEKS and Carson got plenty of practice picking up eggs. Collin loved to hide them or have us hide them and him find them. It was quite the game!

One of the many great things about doing things with Mike’s sister Laura is that I don’t have to write much about them, because she is 100 times more thorough on her blog than I will ever be. See Laura’s blog and great pictures….

Basically, our trip consisted of an Egg Hunt in the park and an awesome picnic. We got to go to the Cardinals baseball game on Saturday night, attended 8 AM church so we could have Easter brunch before Bill went to work. We then did an Egg hunt with the boys, we visited with my grandma at my Aunt Pam & Uncle Jon’s, and had Easter dinner at Mike’s moms with all the cousins.