The Madness that was Easter Weekend

I'm not sure when Easter became the scheduling nightmare that Christmas is, but this year definitely wore both Trey and I out!  We had a FULL Easter Weekend!

    

Sean and I started on Friday, with an Easter Brunch and Egg Hunt with a friend who is moving soon.  We had a great meal, before heading outside in the wonderfully mild weather.  This was Sean's first real Easter egg hunt, and he had a great time!  

 

We woke up Easter Eve to bitter cold and howling winds - perfect weather for an outside Easter Egg Hunt up at the St. Peters City Centre!  Trey, Sean and Grandma and I stopped by and I believe our total time there was no more than 10 minutes - including egg hunt, prize pick up, grabbing a few hot dogs and a balloon.  

Then we headed home for our Easter lunch with my family - Grandma and Papa Z, Grandpa and Miss Annie, and GiGi all came over for an amazing (catered) lunch from St. Louis Rotisserie.  Sean had fun playing with Grandpa while the rest of us sat around and visited.  

Afterwards, Trey, Sean and I headed up to Hannibal and spent the evening visiting with Grammy & Terry and Aunt Mandy & Uncle Nick.

 

 

Sean colored Easter eggs for the first time, completely in awe of the white egg coming out different colors.  Nick worked quite diligently on each of his amazing works of art.  In the end, we had lots of eggs for the Easter Bunny to hide!  After Sean headed to bed, we played Mad Gab, which is a really fun game, once you get your violent tendencies out in the open.  Ahem.

On Easter morning, we got up and went to Easter Services at Trinity Episcopal Church, the church that Trey's mom and uncles grew up in.  The service was uplifting and wonderful, and Sean enjoyed it as well....as he bellowed "wwooaaahhh" throughout the sermon!

After we changed, we headed over to Aunt Jan and Uncle's John's for lunch.  

Oh, and we had a mini-birthday party for Baby Chase!  Chase turned two on March 19th, and he shared his dead-on impression of the Tipping Tractors from the Cars movie while opening presents!

Then we got pictures of the youngest Latta cousins - that's Sean, Mason and Chase - and then all the cousins (photo coming as soon as I can steal it from Mandy's blog!)

 

 

Sean had fun playing with Aunt Mandy, eating candy with Dad, playing with Uncle John, and eating more candy with Grammy!

After Aunt Jan's, we headed over to Poppa Latta's house for an Easter Egg Hunt for everyone!  That's Trey in the red hat holding Sean, Isabella in the dress and black jacket.  

In the end, we were all pooped....but at least Sean slept on the ride home!