Easter Long Weekend

What a perfectly long weekend to spend with my boys!  Easter this year was one of my favorite Easter's so far.  Both Shaun and I had Friday off, so we got 3 full days all together and got up to all sorts of fun.  Sam did not acknowledge the idea of an Easter Bunny, especially if you compare it to how interested he was in Santa this year but we had good time nevertheless.  Here is an account of our Easter 2011!

Kicking off Easter weekend with Smith bringing a treat to have on Thursday.  Mmmmm.

It seems we spend every holiday with our buddies at the zoo!  On Friday, we spent a sunny morning at the Zoo Eggstravaganza.  It was a beautiful morning and we got there so early we got to watch all the animals having their breakfast.

Nemo!  Nope, not exactly but at least he knew Nemo is a fish!

Baby Gorilla and Sam have a heart to heart... always our favorite stop!

A little Easter fun, as we pit stop to colour an Easter Egg.

My favorite little face.

Nothing, I repeat nothing, beats a bouncy house!

Another cool station was planting a seed bomb and then decorating the cup.  

Here's our bunny cup... darn it, I thought I might look more excited about this thing than him and this photo is proof!

Chillin' in the butterfly enclosure.  No butterflies but lots of cocoons.

Checkin out girls...

And this is the face that proves how badly Sam needs to wear sunglasses outdoors.  We call it the Pirate!

After nap on Friday, Sam woke up to find out the Easter Bunny had stopped by.  He found a pile of eggs and a clue!

First clue led him to the dryer and he found a new toothbrush!  

Another clue led him to a pile of eggs and a DVD...

The ball tent held some stickers and another clue!

Somehow Monkey even got stuck watching over his new bedtime book and a clue!

After a few more clues, finally it took Sam outside to find his new sand box.  Instantly in love!!!  Such a little boy - loves diggin' and scoopin' and dumpin' sand.  Probably hours of my life will be spent beside this box this summer!

We had gymnastics on Saturday and then made the drive to my Grandparents' farm for Easter lunch.  Sam immediately found himself a buddy in this farm cat.

Back inside to play with the chicken from Granny.  It lays Easter Eggs... Sam at them all.

Two beauties!

Auntie Brie and Kal made a really cool Easter Egg hunt outside for Sam and Colton.  Lots of eggs to find alllll over the yard!

Great Auntie Bobbi got Sam a glider!

Favorite photo of the weekend.  Love everything about it!

Race... Dad is in the lead!

Emptying out all the goodies from the egg hunt... WOW!

Sweet little family... heart!

For Sunday, we again found ourselves in an intense Egg Hunt.  This time at Gramma and Grandpa Connolley's.

Egg Hunters!

One of the cool things that Kaili did to make the Easter Hunt special for Sam!  We sure love her!

Final stop, GOLDEN egg with a little chick inside!

WOWOWOWOW!!!

Roxy catching snowballs on our Easter walk.

Sam throws some snow for Roxy.  Hard to believe it's the last weekend of April and there is still this much snow!!!  Hopefully a few more beautiful days like today and it will be gone for a couple months.

Hiking up the hill with Gramma and Grandpa.

I love rubber boots!

My two favorite guys again!

I don't think this photo gives you even an idea of what sort of a climb this is.  Very steep, very long and Shaun did it running with Sam on his back.  Beyond impressed.  Honestly, I wished he was carrying me up it!!!

Boys!

Connolley guys

Another highlight of the weekend...
Gramma Bee gave us two tiny pet frogs for Easter.  They are soooo cute!  We tried to think of names but Sam only wants to call them Mom and Dad.  Mom and Dad are very happy and adjusting well to their new home.  I was placing them up on the shelf and heard Sam yell to me "No mama, Bam's grogs!"  He loves them!  No good pictures as of yet, but there will be!