The Crow's Nest: Easter Fun

We've had a busy weekend with lots of Easter festivities. We figured we would have a busy weekend originally - only for a different reason. Like I have mentioned before, Cannon decided he was done 'cooking' a few weeks ago and joined us 3 weeks early. Well today was my Official Due Date - April 4th, Easter Sunday. I am so thankful that instead of dealing with the rough last few weeks of a long pregnancy, I have been able to hold my baby boy in my arms and enjoy him the last 3 weeks. We have enjoyed every minute of being new parents again - its so different the 2nd time around - makes a huge difference once you've been through it before and have some clue of what is going on....lol. He is a GREAT sleeper (knock on wood). He sleeps a good part of the day and sleeps pretty well during the night. I normally feed him before I go to bed around 10:00pm and then he will normally wake up between 2-3am for another feeding and then Andy will give him a feeding before he goes to work around 5:30am to top him off until we get up - we usually get up for the day around 9:30am (of course the days that Brookie has school, we are up around 8am). So I really can't complain - I am normally only up once during the night - so its definitely manageable - we are able to get decent sleep - especially considering he is only 3 weeks old.

Anyway, onto our busy weekend. Friday we had some friends over with their 2 kiddos over for dinner and to meet Cannon. We had a good time catching up and the kids had a blast playing together - it was chaos in our house - and Cannon slept through the entire thing...haha.

Saturday, we headed over to the church for the annual Easter Egg hunt......always a good time for the kids. This was Andrew's last year to participate as it only goes up to 5th grade.....so he made the most of it and tried his hardest to find 'The Golden Egg' but unfortunately, with dozens of these older kids searching for the same single egg, the odds were against him - but he still had fun anyway. Brookie's age group was a lot more calm and relaxed...lol. She got tons of eggs and had a blast picking them all up and putting them in her basket.

Heading to the Easter Egg hunt...

After the Easter egg hunt, we headed over to the grandparents house to enjoy the beautiful weather and visit and color Easter eggs with the family. The weather right now is gorgeous - we are enjoying every second of it b/c we know what is just around the corner. The kids had a lot of fun and wore themselves out running around all day.

Each of the grandkids got to search for their giant Easter egg filled with lots of fun goodies from Grandma Cheryll.

Coloring Easter eggs with Daddy

Easter Sunday we headed back over to the Grandparents house to celebrate Easter. We had a delicious lunch followed by another Easter egg hunt for everyone.