The Easter Firefox to the rescue

Papa still has not identified our computer *pest*, but he's narrowed the problem down to Internet Explorer & circumvented the condition by installing Firefox. So here we are... back from Easter break & ready to post.

Our little monkey had an amazingly fabulous time celebrating Easter in Wild & Wonderful West Virginia last weekend! We spent the entire vacation outside, soaking in the beautiful, cloudless, 80* days!

We started the good times by planting little baby broccoli, cabbage and onion sets. And we all know how much that boy likes to dig in the dirt! Mama just has to keep reminding him, "we don't step on anything green, except for the grass."

Then we headed off to Oglebay's Good Zoo Easter Egg Treasure Hunt with the Goodneighbor girls.

The line was long, and the little man's cheeks got all rosey in the heat, so Julie found a bench for him to relax on while we waited to get in.

For four bucks Alexander got a treasure map & a little bunny bucket to put his findings in & we were off. The map took us all over the zoo. Did I mention it was so very hot?

Although Papa was off work Good Friday, he didn't tag along on the treasure hunt. Instead he started digging fencepost holes at home for Alexander's new nature boy holding pen. This seemed like a good thing, until Papa called us at about the time we were arriving at the first treasure table to inform us that he hit & busted a pipe... at that point, he didn't know which pipe...

The little Easter Pirate was sure there'd be some treasure in the blooming daffodils... but alas all we found was a good picture!



The babe didn't get much of a nap after the zoo, so after a quick tub to get all of the sunscreen, sweat & fencepost mud off, the little guy was off to be by 6:30pm.

We didn't waste anytime goopin' the boy up again Saturday morning in preparation for his first real Easter Egg Hunt @ Wheeling Park.

Unfortunately, Papa's new found front yard pipe (which turned out to be our French Drain), kept him home again. He spent his digging a Y shaped trench to divert the old broken French Drain pipe into a new leach field. Fun stuff. Not.

But at least he got one good picture with the cuteso before he was off to work...

Mama had heard a rumor that traffic gets gridlocked, so Papa dropped us @ Wheeling Park @ 9:30 for registration. The Vineyard Church really knows how to put on an Egg hunt; that place was crazy! 30,000 eggs. 8 pound bags of candy. Thousands of little squirts.


Just as Papa was about to head back to his ditches, Baby Owen & his Daddy pulled into the parking space beside us! Owen's Daddy had no idea what was going on, and had just come to the park to swing. That's some great timing & good luck!

Before the hunt started, Alexander practiced his egg dance. He is just so cute!



The little guys had their own field of eggs to search in. All the little munchkins were just so adorable in their Easter best. It was funny how the little guys left thousands of eggs on their patch, and were more interested in playing than in filling their bags... the older kids on the other hand...


By the time the hunt actually started (it was delayed a few times to allow traffic to die down... that never happened), some of the crowd/egg novelty had waned and the babes was more interested in throwing & escaping toward the sliding board.





The boys had a great time... and so did Mama!





The the eggs the kids collected were empty, but after the hunt they were all given a ginormous bag of full-sized candy bars that only a Daddy could love!

Thank you Vineyard Church!

I know you will all be surprised, but we even spent Easter Sunday outside. Digging. We hit, and luckily did not break a gas line or two. Hoy vey & Happy Easter!

Alexander did get to go to one more Easter Egg hunt at the neighbor's house Sunday afternoon. The little monkey had so much fun checking out all of Isabelle's toys!

But then it was back to work digging ditches!





Alexander had so much fun exploring, digging & playing with all the new kids & zoo animals last weekend that we had to put him back on antibiotics to clear up double ear infections & double eye infections. That kid sure knows how to party:).