Easter Egg Hunt

I didn't have any girls to dress in cute sundresses for Easter, but I made sure that my boys were spiffy looking! They looked so grown up!

After church on Sunday we went to Seth's parents for a nice dinner and then the boys searched through the house for their Easter baskets that were hidden. Once they found them and checked out all the goodies, they had to empty the baskets in order to use them to collect the eggs that Seth had hidden around the back yard. Unbelievably both of the boys were equally adept at finding the eggs. Their eyes are at different levels and I guess some eggs were just easier for Ryan to find and others were easier for Charles to find.


Towards the end of the hunt Charles did notice that his basket was getting slightly fuller than Ryan's and without any prompting from the adults he decided on his own to put the next few eggs that he found in Ryan's basket. Wow, I was so proud of him! Sharing is something that I really work on with them as it keeps them from getting into fights.

Caitlyn was with her mom, so I don't have any pictures of her. She did get her own Easter basket filled with goodies when she got home. All in all, we had a wonderful day!

Weekend at the Beach

It's Spring Break and although we are saving up our vacation leave for this summer, we still decided that we needed a family excursion and "break" from the routine. A friend of ours was very very generous and let us use her condo on Navarre Beach for Friday and Saturday night for free. We gladly accepted on the condition that she let us pay for the cleaning fee at least.
The condo is wonderful! On the ground floor, we can see the pool from the windows of our condo. The water is still rather cold, but there are nice bbq grills there which we plan on using while we're here. Seth took Friday off from work to get the kids ready and run a few last minute errands. Cara went to work as she had some important meetings to run in the morning. We were both coming from different directions, Cara from Pensacola and Seth from Crestview, but both ended up meeting at the condo within 5minutes of eachother. What timing! Our mini-vacation started at 1PM on Friday. We unloaded the car and immediately got dressed for the beach and headed out about 2PM.

We had a nice 2hr stay at the beach where the wind was cool but sun was shining so it was very very nice.

The water was still very cold, but it didn't stop the boys from getting in it!

Later that evening we came back to the condo and put the showers and bathtubs to work! We got dressed up and went out to eat at a nice local restaurant.
We took the scenic route and had a beautiful view of the sunset!

What a perfect first day!