We had a great Easter weekend! It gets a little tricky having 3 families to see on holidays; however we always make it work. I always stress about it initially because I don’t want to hurt anyone’s feelings and make sure to switch it up, but thankfully we have fairly easy going family. Henry and I went to my dad’s on Saturday morning (Kyle was out golfing with his dad and brother). My dad set up an Easter egg hunt for Henry and it really moved me and brought back memories of my own childhood. Seeing how much my dad Loves being a grandpa makes my heart melt. They gave Henry a bunch of sand toys, bubbles and a wheel barrel to keep at their house for this summer as well. We went out to eat and it was making me laugh watching everyone who wanted to be by Henry’s side the whole time, and take him for walks around the restaurant, etc. This kid isn’t loved at all!!!!!! HA!! He really loves all of his Uncles and you can tell he always goes straight to Uncle Bub, Uncle Jared and Uncle Drew. They are all so sweet with him and Henry is soooooooo lucky to have so many Uncles! We spent the rest of the day outside writing with chalk and went on a long walk at my dad’s house down by the naturey part of his neighborhood. I snapped a bunch of adorable pictures of Henry down there…it was a beautiful day and the lighting was great. On Easter Sunday we had our own Easter at home, with coffee, an egg hunt, opening Henry’s easter basket and then headed to my mom’s for brunch. She set the table up with Great Grandma’s dining ware and it looked so pretty. She made my favorite…pierogis (Holidays just wouldn’t be the same without them!) pork loin, cucumber salad. It was delish. When Henry started getting tired we drove to Valerie and Scott’s (my in-laws) and had another delicious meal there! She made ham, cheesy potatoes, rolls, coleslaw and a yummy cheesecake. There was another easter egg hunt waiting for Henry there as well! He loved it and brought each egg to his Grandpa to open for him. He was a little cranky on Easter day and I’m thinking since it was only that day he was just overly tired. He didn’t eat really all day and slept for 13 hours that night. We kept him home yesterday and didn't go out anywhere to catch up on sleep and he seemed much happier.
Since I knew we would be keeping him home I decided to make it a craft day. I found a great salt dough recipe ( 1 cup flour, 1 cup salt, ¾ cup water~ bake at 200 degrees for 2-3 hours) and did Daddy and Henry handprints, and Mama and Henry handprints. Henry loved doing it and you can tell he does handprint art at school a lot because he knew exactly what to do. I also did a “Made in MI” sign using his foot and hand to look like the mitten and the U.P. It turned out so cute! I framed it and put it by our kitchen.
This week is spring break and although we are a little sad we aren’t on vacation- we have a few coming up soon!! We are going to a lakehouse on Lake Michigan with the Schultz Family for 7 days the first week of July. I can’t wait!!!! Annie, Ryan and Ally will meet us there from Chicago. Then on July 17th we are flying to Florida with my mom and we get to see my Uncles and they finally get to meet Henry! Kyle is still unsure if he is able to come or not because of some football scrimmages he has during that week (life of a coach!). He may end up flying out seperate after the scrimmage. We will see. If he ends up not able to go I will be so sad, but it will be fun to have a girls getaway with my mom to Florida like we always used to too. We will also do Disney World and Animal Kingdomon that Thursday and Friday. I can’t WAITTTTTTTTTTT to take Henry to Disney World! We are staying in a timeshare right at Disney. Too fun. I know he is young but I know he will just go nuts there and will love the rides with us and seeing all the characters and people. I really can’t wait. In August we are in the works of planning a weekend getaway with my dad and Tracy up north as well. Summer can’t come soon enough! The warm weather has been great. It’s so nice to not have to bundle Henry up in a thick jacket and hat and just let him walk on the porch when he wants to. I know I am going to LOVE our back deck this summer….on the warmer days we’ve had I’ve just left it open (no bugs yet) and let Henry go in and out as he pleases. The kid loves going and being outside and when you bring him in he will sit at the door and bang on it and cry…aww. Speaking of outside- we ordered Henry a Schwinn trike off of Amazon! It is sooo cute and he loves riding it. He also loves drawing with chalk and makes us blow bubbles while he yells "boobles...bubbles" constantly.
April has some fun things planned. We are looking forward to baseball games starting this month (Kyle coaches) and taking Henry to all of his games!! I am also having a pinterest party this month and will definitely make a post about that.
Just remember...APRIL SHOWERS BRING MAY FLOWERS!! :)
