Happy Easter!

This year we stayed here in Tampa for Easter and none of our family came down. Even though we missed being with family, we know that this is the last holiday where we will be far away from everyone, so we took the day to enjoy it just the 3 of us. We went to church of course, but only I got to enjoy the whole service. Because it was Easter, the nursery (which is the smallest room I have ever seen) had 14 children in it and poor Noah had a complete emotional breakdown. He tends to get overwhelmed when he is around a lot of kids he doesn't know. Anyway, Wes ended up outside on the playground for the last half of the service...oh well. Afterwards we went to some friends' house for lunch. They had invited several couples who weren't near family and everyone brought some food and we had a great time. They have a little boy very close to Noah's age - who is also obsessed with Cars - so Noah and Grantham played with cars together. Wes and I got to eat and visit without being interrupted, it was great! It was 3:30 by the time we left, so we decided Noah could just skip his nap (a risky move, I know!) He was quite sleepy on the way home. He fell asleep a couple of times and I tried to take his picture, but every time he heard me turn around, he would open his eyes and grin for the camera. He is quite the little ham these days!

A drowsy Noah mugging for the camera!

When we got home we gave Noah his Easter basket. It was filled with all sorts of goodies, but the biggest hits were Cars stickers from Bebe and the Cadbury Mini Eggs. Since we wanted to keep him distracted from the fact that he was really tired we decided to do an egg hunt. Now, I really thought it would be an exercise in futility. I was sure he would not understand what he was supposed to do, get bored, and run off. But to my surprise, he caught on really fast. We hid the eggs in his room and he walked around and filled his basket. He would look very intently and get so excited when he spotted one! He found all 10 eggs that I hid and had a blast doing it. He also had a blast eating the candy that was in them! All in all, it was a really fun day (despite no nap) and we really enjoyed spending it with our little guy! Hope you enjoy these pictures from his egg hunt!

Noah with a mouthful of candy.