Happy Easter!

Holy Cow! We packed a lot of celebrating in the last 3 days! I'm going to try and make this post as short and sweet as possible...

Saturday we headed over to Florence to visit Mark's grandfather. We just recently found out he has stage 5 Parkinson's. This has been really hard on his grandfather because he is always on the go and very independent. He will be 86 in July and is Clay's only living great grandfather. We had a great visit!

(Papa's reflective jacket didn't work well with my camera flash! He's "glowing" in all my inside pictures!)

While we were there, Mark's cousin, her son and his uncle came over to visit. Clay and Marshall had a great time hunting Easter eggs... actually they didn't really "hunt" them... but enjoyed transferring them from one basket to the other and then throwing them all over the yard!

Showing off his "loot"...

Mark, Papa and Uncle Larry

On Sunday we went to eat Easter lunch at a local restaurant with Mark's mom, his sister and her family and then went back to our house for an Easter Egg Hunt.

I think this is the only family picture I have of us since last Easter! Oh look... Elmo has also joined the family...

We made the mistake of telling the Easter Bunny that Clay needs more of those little Sesame Street toys and he brought him Ernie and Cookie Monster. Now he has to carry all 3 of them around! He still favors Elmo.

This is his serious, down-to-business look... he's hunting some eggs!
He didn't really get the whole gist of an Easter Egg hunt so his cousins, Ellie and Grace, helped him out.

Then today, Clay and I went to visit my side of the family at my Granny's house. My cousin and her family are in from Alaska so it was great to see them! My mom, sister and her 2 girls came over from Georgia and my Aunt Carole and Uncle Larry came up from South Alabama. It was a big time.

This was the side I mostly saw of Clay the whole day. He was determined to get every single toy out of the toy box.

Here is Cadence, my cute little red-headed niece.
And this is Hailey and Maddy. Hailey is my other cute, little red-headed niece and Maddy is my cousin's little girl.

The day was filled with visiting, eating, fishing, playing with toys, chasing toddlers, chasing toddlers who were chasing the 175 pound Great Pyreneese dog (who really should be classified as some species of bear - he's HUGE)... and NO NAP... until we got in the car. And he CRASHED!

I only wish I could have taken a nap like that!!

We had a fabulous Easter weekend and had a great time spending it with family!