Easter

It was a busy weekend for us.  We had two parties to attend on Saturday and one on Sunday.  After finishing up at Audrey's birthday party on Saturday, we headed over to Mami & Papi's house for an early Easter Egg hunt in the front year with Ana.  The boys were so excited and jazzed to have the Easter Egg hunt.  It was all they could think about.  Ana is a couple of years older than the boys so she knew to just go and grab as much as she could.  John kept on pointing eggs out to her without picking them up.  It was quite funny actually.  In the end, everyone got enough eggs and candy to keep them quite happy.  They spent the next couple of hours running around like little crazed candy fiends.  John and Nicholas almost didn't want to fall asleep because they were expecting the Easter Bunny to pay a visit in the morning.

Sure enough, the Easter Bunny was kind enough to drop off two baskets of goodies for our little guys.  John's comment when he saw the baskets was a very succinct, "I love the Easter Bunny!"  They were very excited to open up a few eggs to find Easter themed Hot Wheels cars.  I'd have to say that was pretty cool.  They were almost too excited to eat their breakfast and get ready for Easter Sunday Mass with Grammy, but we somehow got out the door early enough to secure a parking space and a seat.

At that point, we could hardly keep them under control because they knew that we were going to do an additional Easter Egg Hunt in the courtyard below.  Both boys were excited to run around and grab eggs.  Actually, they each had a pattern where they'd only grab certain colors.  They had already worked it out.  They did allow each other to pick up one or two of the other's designated colors, but there were no issues.  Nicholas immediately opened up his eggs, but he thankfully did not get any chocolate all over his clothes like he did last year.  That boy will always, and I do mean always be covered in chocolate or something else.

Last, but not least, we headed out to Malibu to Uncle Ron and Aunt Sally's place overlooking the ocean.  John and Nicholas both love the view, but they did have one early issue.  There is a little white dog named Lilly that lives there.  She's about 12-years old and loves to play with people.  At first, Nicholas was convinced that Lilly wanted to eat him.  Once Uncle Ron showed them how to get her to sit up for a treat, they were in love.  They just wanted to play with her.  John wanted her to run around and chase him.  Thankfully, Lilly was in a mood to rest and didn't want to chase after little mischievous boys.

All in all, it was a great weekend.  The boys got to see and play with their cousins on both sides of the family.  Actually, John and Nicholas were trying to play Rugby with Thomas and Nicholas like they did a couple of Thanksgivings ago.  I had to remind them that a hard wood deck is far less forgiving than soft grass.  They still decided to play Fight Club.  It was hillarious.