Crazy Busy Weekend!

I'm still playing catch-up from our crazy busy weekend!!

 

Saturday morning, I took the kids to Easter Fest at a local park. We've been to this event for 3 years now, and the kids love it more each time. Me, on the other hand......

 

Well, let's just say that since it's a FREE event, complete with an egg hunt, bounce houses, games & prizes, plus food & drinks, so it's a zoo bit crowded!!

 

I decided to try a new strategy this year. We got there right at 10 am when it started, and the lines for the bounce houses & petting zoo weren't too crowded yet.

 

 

 

Abby is always a fan of the petting zoo; Nate, not so much. This year, they had 4 day old ducklings!

Then, at 10:15, people started walking over to the adjacent field for the egg hunt. (Which kept the lines for the games/bounce houses/rock wall pretty short.)

 

The egg hunt - WITH 25,000 EGGS - started at 10:30, and I told the kids ahead of time that we were going to skip it. That way, we had about 30 minutes of super short lines!! Nate scaled the rock wall 3x in a row (which is a miracle, since the line is usually 50+ people deep), while Abby literally went up & down the biggest slide/bounce house 11x in a row. I even went down with her once since there was no line!!!

 

So fun.

 

I was super proud of Nate for reaching the top of the rock wall for the first time. This has been 3 years in the making, and this year was HIS year! He did it without any problems, and it was so cute to see our neighbor Jack cheering him on.

 

 While Nate & Jack were on the rock wall, we met up with one of Jack's little sisters, Caroline. She & Abby had fun on some of the bounce houses together. Our nickname for the two of them: Double Trouble!!

Saturday afternoon, it was off to birthday party #1. Greg took both Abby & Caroline, and the party was at a gymnastics place in town. It was for one of our other neighbors, Kennedy, but she's not in any pictures. (Good job, Greg!!)

 While party #1 was going on, I took Nate to party #2 at one of his classmate's house. Anthony turned 7 and was having a "Harry Potter" themed party. Nate had been looking forward to it for WEEKS! (He is completely obsessed with HP right now....he is on the fifth book, and we have been planning his HP birthday party - which is in AUGUST - for months now! Ha! He even created a spell book in a leather journal and has literally written every spell - in order - from the first 5 books. Yes he is mine! :)

Anthony's mom did an awesome job at the party.....she made butter beer & wands for all the kids, had them play quidditch/kickball, & put on an Easter egg hunt (look at the concentration on Nate's face)!

I love this picture - Nate & Chandler are both casting spells
on Anthony before he blows out his candles! Ha!