Week in Pictures- Easter Weekend

This past weekend was Easter weekend! I searched for the past two weeks on where we should go and what she would do on the Saturday before Easter. To my surprise, nothing was listed on Facebook until the week before. We chose to go to the "Great Egg Race" at the South end of town since they divided their egg hunts into age groups. I was excited to finally take Haidyn out for Easter. She was too little last year to go since her birthday born 3 days before Easter.

She was so tiny!!!

We started off our little trip with STARBUCKS!! Haidyn and I always usually wake up around 6:30 am, but never usually get going until 10:00 am. Haidyn got to dig through her Easter basket before the hunt and try her first peep!  She loved it so much we wiped it all over the carpet. Hurricane Haidyn at it again! We had to be at the egg hunt by 9:00 am so we had to get going a little earlier than usual. BUT we got Haidyn her first Vanilla Bean Frap... that she sipped on-so technically we got Waymon 2 fraps.

When we arrived at the egg hunt there were tonssss of people at the event that I'm glad we got there when we did. There were so many free things to do at the event and you know me; I'm a sucker fo anything fweee!!! We tried to scout out where to go for the egg hunt and quickly followed the crowd of little babies. Haidyn and all of the other babies there were tortured by the fact that they could SEE the very colorful eggs, but couldn't touch them until the buzzer went off. Waymon went with Haidyn to fight over the crowds for some eggs. ... Ahem only one egg if that. Waymon had to put the egg in her basket since our poor girl was terrified when all the parents rushed to hunt with their little ones. So we egg hunted for about 2 minutes tops, but she was excited for the ONE egg she did get. She's learning already that quality is better than quantity.. or at least that's what I would like to think.

After our hunt we got our picture taken with the Easter Bunny! Everyone has been warning me that she might be scared to see the bunny, but I wasn't worried at all. She was happy and loved seeing the bunny. She, however, hated the wait to see the bunny due to all of the very annoying Nevada wind we had going on at the same time.

 

Q.T. Bunny time was quickly replaced by finding some food and taking more Easter pictures. We stopped by the water and donut booth to help Haidyn enjoy the wind a little better. It work since we got orange slices with the donut holes! Our Easter pictures for the event were a little cheesy since we ended up being in a Easter basket.

We met up with a friend at the hunt to see their kids and to see them off on their hunt. To our surprise their hunt lasted shorted than Haidyn's but they got SO many eggs. The girls were so sweet and gave Haidyn some of their own eggs so she wouldn't feel so bad. (Yes, you can start saying " awee" here. ) After watching the kids hunt their eggs we left the event to grab some substantial lunch at House of Bread.

pooped after the hunt!

 

If you haven't had their bread you are MISSING out. They have the best, fresh bread you will ever have in Reno and it's made locally. Waymon and I both got a huge sandwich meal and shared with our girl before going back home for the day.

~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~EASTER DAY~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

We headed out to my in-laws around 2:00 pm for Easter Dinner. Haidyn was in her Easter dress and snoozing on the way there. When we got out of the car and unloaded everything she woke up to greet her Grandma and Grandpa. The joy on her face was so cute! Grandpa surprised her with a lawn chair and a toy push car and Grandma surprised her with an Easter basket filled with a Dr. Seuss Cup, bubble whistle and a little dog.

Dinner was served around 5:00 pm complete with baked ziti, salad, asparagus, homemade garlic bread, and cupcakes! Haidyn mowed through everything I put on her plate. She didn’t even make a peep the entire dinner. (ALWAYS a great sign! )  After dinner we spent time catching up with Uncle Colbie and the family while watching the Final Four. Haidyn passed out for a good 2 hours while we were there and was completely content on her day. I can only wish for more days like this past weekend.

I hope you all had a wonderful Easter weekend.

four|sunny.nine

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My poor baby girl has been a little under the weather this week. I was off for 2 days because her fever was through the roof and wouldn't drop down. We got her checked into the ER because of the fact that she got to 103 and we were told "it's not that serious". Let me tell you when your daughter is red in the face, ears and everywhere else on her body and she's got a fever of 103 it's pretty f&*#$@% serious to me. They couldn't tell us what was exactly going on other than " hey, she has a fever ride it out", so our assumption was is to blame it all on teething!! GRR I loathe you teething!!! ! On my last day at home with her, we spent the day being lazy and concentrating on getting better. I painted own toes and my silly girl is slowing coming back to 100% ! YAAYY! Sass even decided to be lazy gals with us.

[two]

Eh, I guess I'm not finished with teething just yet [: A clerk at the hospital turned me to Amber Baltic Teething Necklaces. Now she did warn me that she did some research on it and a lot of people called her crazy for trying it on her little one, but I figured that since I WAS in the hospital at midnight with my  poor teething baby that I should give it a try as well. After putting it on Haidyn, it took her about 24 hours to come back to her healthy, happy self! (This also deserves a YAY) I'm a believer. I will try any natural remedies if it does work with Haidyn. I know that we use all natural teething tablets as well and they work wonders on her. I'm not opposed to be a "hippie" mom if it works!

[three]

We went Easter egg hunting yesterday with Haidyn for the first time. Remind me next year that my daughter is extremely claustrophobic that egg hunts are probably not her thing. I really made me want to just have our own house so that I can hide the eggs for her! It was really fun though seeing her with the Easter bunny and us in the Easter basket full of eggs. haha ( pics soon to come. )
We're heading over to my in-laws tonight for Easter Dinner. I can't wait have Haidyn over there with everyone and just relax. Haidyn's favorite place to be is either at home or at their house. The excitement that goes through her is so cute! I'm cooking some realllly unhealthy garlic bread and some garlic asparagus! Mmm.

[four] 

I want to thank myself in that I prematurely bought my tire insurance many months ago. WHEW! That totally saved my butt when I found out that I had a flat tire when I was out with Haidyn. You can't even imagine my relief when I knew it would be taken care of. Haidyn waited like a champ for our flat to be changed! 

[five]

You're Not You. It is quite rare that my husband sits down with me to watch a "girly" movie so I HAVE to write about this one.  The movie shows you what happens to family and a husband and wife that has to go through and overcome an awful illness such as ALS. It's moving, touching and beautiful all at the same time. I definitely recommend this movie to everyone and anyone out there looking for a great movie to watch.

[six]

My nephew this week decided to put together a little intro to a rap that he's been working on. You can check it out here.  I can't begin to even say how proud I am of this young man. Not because he rapped, but because he took something he loved and put it out there for everyone to listen to. He's only 15 and already has that courage to do something that big! I know that at 15 I was only confident about acing my biology exam. I'm so proud of you Jon.

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We dropped my mom at the airport this past week. We won't see her for over a month. I already miss her and she hasn't even been gone for a full 24 hrs yet, I knew she was leaving for months now, but it didn't hit me until this week how long her vacation really was. Haidyn was feeing a little blue too over i, but i know she will be back before we know it!

last dinner with lola :) 

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Now that Haidyn's been feeling under the weather she's grown accustomed to her whining a little and us giving in. Jon captured the best of the latter through facetime when she decided to cry over nothing and we mocked her. haah I know it can be mean, but we couldn't help it! She's such an independent little girl that when she does become needy and we know she's just faking it we have to poke fun at it. [; Please don't mind my hideous faces haha. Thank you to Jon for taking these masterpieces. I hope you all laugh as hard as we did.

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We ended our Saturday night on the couch with EVERYONE! It's very rare that all of us our comfortable sitting/lying down together in one area. I hope that these pictures are a sign of an amazing week ahead of us.

Have a great week everyone!!