Holidays are better spent with family. So that's what we did. We made the trek to Pinetop to see grandparents for Easter. I have been missing my parents and trees and everything that feels like my first home. So it was good to share a Pinetop Easter with Aaron and my kids. It's was a rainy weekend, which was just fine with us because I love any change in weather ever. Plus that was probably the last time I will wear a sweater (my favorite article of clothing) till I go camping this summer.
Our first Easter activity was the annual Easter egg hunt at woodland park. I remember doing this as a little kid, I never found the golden egg. It was a little chilly until the second they let kids out onto the field, that's when it just got down right cold and started to rain. That field was probably cleared of eggs in under 5 minutes flat. Aaron and I split up mostly because Daisy was faster. Rockwell got a respectable three eggs, the limit per kid was ten. Daisy got her ten and promptly laid claim to rocky's three as soon as we got back to grandma's.
Up next was dying eggs. This was the first time I have done this with Daisy, she was interested but not blown away. We did get some pretty colors though thanks to the kit we got from the Papa family. Grandma tried the all natural approach and used turmeric and blueberries to dye hers. It was a bust though and her eggs ended up in our cups.
I don't think Rockwell had a clue what we were doing but he was a happy boy.
Later that afternoon Aaron and I snuck away for some Easter shopping at the LDS bookstore. We stayed a while there and ended up getting a collection of john bytheway talks. There was $80.00 worth of more talks of his we wanted but that's for another day.
I also really wanted a good cupcake, so after the bookstore we drove into show low to find one but all the bakeries were closed... On a Saturday afternoon... In a town that depends on tourism... Just saying might be wise to be open on a Saturday afternoon. So we didn't get a cupcake, but did find a Nova that I think sparked Aaron's imagination, like he imagined we had $4800 to spend on a muscle car:). Obviously that didn't happen.
My parents stake conference was also this past weekend so they had to go to the adult secession. We stayed home since all babysitter 12 and up were either at stake conference or Prom. We had a good time though. We watched the Garth Brooks Vegas show. Made us both wish we could have seen it live. Aaron always jokes we should name a son Garth. I like Garth Brooks but I'll pass. When my parents got home we went and saw Draft Day. It was actually very entertaining, we like it.
Sadly though the next morning when rocky woke me up at 5:45 grandma was not up yet, which is weird if you know my Mom. Turns put she caught a stomach bug and stayed in her room till we left. So she missed our egg hunt and finding of baskets. So here are some pictures Mom.
It was a good weekend. We will have to do it again minus the flu:).
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