Weekend Warriors

We kicked off the weekend with our local YMCA's Easter Egg hunt in the POOL....yes, in the pool.  The kids jumped in, with dad, hunted for eggs and Ethan even found a "Prize Egg" and won a bottle of bubbles.  After the pool hunt they did games and crafts at the Y as part of the festivities, which thrilled them to death.  They even got candy bags and candy prizes for participating ..that mommy quickly tucked away for our own egg hunt at home next weekend...they don't need more candy on top of what they got so I just took the candy and stashed it away, and no one has even asked where it went :)  We then rushed home for a visit from Pappy and Gma Kathy.  They brought the kids fishing poles so we had endless "fishing" in our living room.  They even brought the kids a few Cubs outfits and Ethan a Cubs hat, that mommy LOVES but Daddy wishes said Brewers.  Ah well, I let him put the kids in IU stuff so he'll have to suck up the Cubbies gear.  My dad even had "Sandberg" put on the back of Ethan's Cubs shirt since Ryne Sandberg was my absolute favorite when I was a kid.  Pretty sure I still have a couple of his baseball cards tucked away somewhere.  Pappy and Gma Kathy even brought some old pics of the Bradbury clan...grandparents, great grandparents, and even great-great grandparents along with some genealogy work and great stories you can't get from paper...I guess you could say that was Mommy's gift since I love doing our family history.  After all going out to dinner, we even managed to sneak in a game of Candyland.  Ethan is still talking about how he played Candyland with his Pappy and Gma Kathy.  Finally Sunday rolled around, along with the springtime SNOW, and more snow, and more snow.  So Ethan and Daddy headed outside for some fort building and snowball fighting while mommy and Claire made mini chocolate cupcakes with peanut butter frosting to eat after our FHE.  FHE that night included a quick 2 minute kid-friendly video on the resurrection and then we made paperplate tombs and had fun rolling our "stone" away.  I'm pretty sure we couldn't have packed anymore into our crazy weekend, but it sure was fun!  Enjoying every moment we can as an entire family.    

Our Fearless Weekend Warriors

Kicking off the weekend with some fresh breath

Easter Egg Hunt in the Pool

Obstacle course he had to race through holding his jellybean-filled egg on a spoon

Easter Egg Hockey with a Carrot as the Hockey stick

A visit from Pappy and Gma Kathy

Snow forts and snowball fights

Claire helping me in the kitchen :)  She kept clapping her "oven-mitt arms".  It was hilarious.

The picture we used to make our paperplate tomb crafts for FHE.