Easter Weekend and Ainsley's 2nd birthday

Easter weekend was a good and busy one for us. On Thursday, Will had an Easter party at school and came home with lots of candy and goodies from Mrs. Melinda and his classmates. That evening, we went to an Easter egg hunt at Hope Landing. The weather was perfect! They had eggs hidden in different areas for different ages. I went with Ainsley and Mitch went with Will. It was Ainsley's first real hunt. She went to one last year but was not into it at all. She wandered around slowly and when she did see an egg, she picked it up and looked it over carefully before putting it in her basket. Will knew what to do, but his eggs kept falling out of his basket since it is kind of shallow. Someone got a Wal-Mart bag for him! They had lots of activities for the kids to do - hula hoops, sidewalk chalk and paint, snacks, etc. Someone was dressed like a bunny, and Will did not like that at all. He does not like people dressed up as Santa, the Easter bunny, or anything like that - he likes to talk about them, but he does not want to go anywhere near them! One of the kids, Michael, was dressed like Winnie the Pooh. Will went to him willingly, but you could see Michael's face, so he wasn't scary to him.





On Friday, Mitch took the day off and we spent the day getting ready for Ainsley's birthday. Will went to a birthday party for his classmate, Grace (who he calls "Gracie Poo"). That evening my brother and sister in law, Guy and Julie, and their new baby, Shepherd, got into town. We went to my mom's to visit. The kids were enamored with Shepherd. The loved kissing him, talking to him, and making him laugh. Ainsley was especially interested in him. Any time he would cry or start to fuss, she got a worried look on his face and said "What happened Shepherd, what happened?" She was such a little momma all weekend.


Shepherd was very good natured and has the best smile! They had just had some 3 month pictures taken of him by their friend Jill; these are my favorites:


On Saturday, we went to the church for an egg hunt there. There were lots of kids and not as many eggs to find, but they had fun anyway. Will loved the "bouncer" and Ainsley played with some other little girls her age.




After coming home, we dyed eggs with the kids. They did pretty good! They took naps and I went to mom's to eat and snuggle with Shepherd some more.







Saturday afternoon we celebrated Ainsley's 2nd birthday. We sat outside, the kids played baseball and blew bubbles and Mitch grilled burgers. We set the table with three pictures of Ainsley - a newborn picture, one on her first birthday, and one of the recent spring pictures we had made. She has changed so much! She's not a baby anymore, she's a little girl. Her cake was adorable and delicious. Later she would say "more Happy Birthday" - which meant "more cake"! Mitch's parents met Shepherd for the first time. Gill called themselves "Cousin Papaw and Cousin Grammy" which is a pretty good name for them. Ainsley got some nice gifts. Will got her bubbles, she is really into right now, my mom gave her a Raggedy Ann & Andy book with dolls, Mitch's parents gave her a Peter Cottontail book and stuffed rabbit, and Guy and Julie gave her a cute dress and the cutest purple sandals! Mitch and I gave her a "sick" baby that she can take care of. The other day she was giving her baby some "medicine" and saying "it's lasik" . . . it took me a minute to figure it out, but she was saying "Lasix" - one of the medicines Will takes. I guess she's heard us say that a few hundred times!















On Sunday we got up and let the kids see their Easter baskets. They each got a book, some stickers, and a little toy. Nothing big, but they were excited about them.




We went to Sunday School at FBC and then went to First Methodist with mom, Guy and Julie. Ainsley went to the nursery and Will went to the service with us. He did pretty good except for the constant burping he did on the lady in front of us! Sigh. We came home for lunch and took some pictures in front of the azalea bushes.





We had Easter dinner at mom's Sunday night with Mitch's parents. Monday it was back to the real world and Guy and Julie had to leave, but it was a good weekend while it lasted!