Easter Weekend 2009

This weekend was one of those weekends where we had so much going on that I needed to blog about that I didn’t have time to blog about it and now it’s so much I don’t want to blog about it.  But alas, I do want to share what we did.

• Friday’s visit with tv guy and his wife turned out to be a fun evening. They ended up staying until almost midnight just chatting.  He is a former Marine and wanted to be an officer and he’s also a somewhat techy guy so you can imagine we all had a lot to talk about.
• Saturday was a great Saturday.  The girls got in bed with us and watched cartoons.  We haven’t done that in forever.
• We had to scramble though when I found out the church’s Easter egg hunt/pizza party started at 10.  We’re going to have to work on strategy for next year.  Lexi ran but she followed a crowd and Emma froze and would barely let go of me long enough to pick one up.
• When we got done with that, we stopped at Lowe’s to get some flowers.  It was a gorgeous day and I spent the next two hours planting flower pots.  I have to say, I’m horrible at keeping plants alive but I LOVE to plant them. I get in some weird relaxed zone.  I don’t check the time or worry about what else is going on.
• We got cleaned up and headed to the mall.  I needed to exchange some tennis shoes for Emma and pick up some Easter shoes for them. I ended up finding my white suit for Easter on sale at Penney’s for $50!
• We called my family and had them meet us at Buca di Beppo.  The restaurant has been there forever and everyone I talk to says it’s delicious but we have never made the leap and tried it.  And wow, am I glad we did.   We had Apple gorgonzola salad, fettucine, proschuitto chicken and their quattro dish. Seriously the best Italian we’ve ever had.
• Emma developed a fever and headache during dinner so we stayed in the rest of the night while I ran around gathering up our last minute Easter presents.  I tried to buy myself a cord to go from my Mac to the TV but they were out.
• Sunday was a gorgeous day for Easter.  Emma was really excited to get her bike and Lexi loved her movies.   Since Emma had been sick all night we didn’t go to Sunday School so we spent the morning watching Tale of Despereaux.
• After church was Easter dinner at IL’s.  We took the girls’ bikes and ended up pulling some old bikes out of their building.  Scott and I rode with the girls for a while after lunch.  I hadn’t ridden a bike in years.  It felt really good though and made me miss cycling class.
• We spent the evening over at my parents.  The girls played in their new sand box, we ate dinner and then did some biking over there.  Emma had her first big bike fall.  She started going down the hill pretty fast, started to break and then scared herself and went off the bike near the side of the road.  She skinned her knee and hands and then refused to ride the rest of the day.  She seemed comforted to know how many times I had fallen off my bike learning to ride and says she’ll ride, but not on Grandma’s street anymore!  I have to admit, it’s a pretty big hill for a beginner.
• Lexi was getting homesick by then and I have to admit the homebody in me was ready to crash at home.  We put in Lexi’s other movie, Marley and Me until bedtime.

Whew.  So yeah, busy weekend.  And this week is Spring Break for us.  The girls have been playing really well together this morning, although making a huge mess of the house.