Easter Festivities!

This year Easter was so much fun because Brandon was so much more excited and involved in the festivities.  We started off the festivities decorating Easter eggs the weekend before.  Brandon did a great job carefully dipping the eggs in the dye and even cleaned up when he dripped color dye on the table and said "messy!"  He loved dyeing the "purple" eggs the most.

Mommy helping Brandon dip eggs into the dye

Easter egg coloring fun!

Mommy and Brandon working on the Easter eggs

So much fun dying the Easter eggs

Gently dipping the eggs

Brandon dipping the eggs

Brandon loves going up the ladder at Cook Park

My sweet boy at Cook Park in April

Going down the slide at Cook Park

Brandon having fun riding his bike

 For Easter weekend, Sean's sister Dawn and her boyfriend Jose and his son Kevin and Sean's parents came and stayed at our house.  The entire weekend of Easter we had the most gorgeous weather (it was in the mid to high 70s).  It was very fun having everyone at our house.  Brandon at first was not sure about Kevin and all the people in our house but he quickly became less shy and he loved running around the house and playing with all his toys with Kevin.  We started Saturday morning out with a Egg Hunt at Brandon's Preschool and both boys had a lot of fun.  They had a giant Easter bunny at the Egg Hunt that scared Brandon.  We went out to dinner at Chang's Mongolian grill that night with a bunch of Sean's family members in the area (there were about 20 of us) and then had a lot of our family back to our house for yummy creme brulee that Dawn had made.  It was nice catching up with Sean's family as well.

Brandon and Kevin at Brandon's school in the Easter eggs

My little Easter egg

Brandon and Daddy just before hte egg hunt at Brandon's school

Putting the eggs in his Elmo basket

So many eggs in the basket

So much fun!

Playing with Daddy Easter weekend at Cook Park

Brandon was so excited when he woke up the morning and found his Elmo Easter basket full of little presents.  He got some bubbles, a Percy bubble toy, a super soaker squirt gun, and a little book as well as a chocolate bunny.  For actual Easter, we had a yummy brunch of eggs, a hash brown casserole, and fruit for brunch.  Then both Kevin and Brandon got to go on a giant egg hunt around our house.  Both boys had a lot of fun with this and it took quite a while to find all the eggs (there were close to 75 of them hidden). 

Opening up his Easter basket Easter morning

Trying out his Percy bubbles

Egg hunt around our house

Brandon searching for the eggs

Outside finding the eggs in the backyard

Kevin and Brandon finding eggs out in the backyard

Opening up Easter eggs with Daddy

Finding eggs in Daddy's room

Look at all those eggs!

After Sean's family left, Sean and I took Brandon in the afternoon to Cook Park so he could play with his new squirt gun and chase Daddy around the playground.  I have gotten quite a bit bigger in the past few weeks and it is harder for me to chase Brandon around.  Brandon had a blast with his squirt gun, the only bad thing was it was rather small and we kept having to refill it.  Sean and I made a prime rib roast for Easter, twice baked potatoes, rolls, and broccoli.  It was a awesome way to end a fun weekend. 

Brandon woke up from his nap and the Easter bunny came again with some new trains and train tracks.  Daddy and Brandon made this new cool train track.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

My sweet baby boy last year on Easter at 1 1/4 years, what a difference a year makes!

Brandon looking at the beautiful flowers at Cook Park last Easter

Having so much fun squirting Daddy at Cook Park

Squirt Gun war with Daddy

Running like crazy through the playground

Brandon on the same playground last Easter

Watch out Mommy!