Easter Happenings

Happy (Belated) Easter!!

(as usual, on the belated part)

We went to mass on Sunday and amazingly got there early

enough to get a seat!  Barely...

But oddly - 

we sat on the front row

and the kids were GREAT!

They have NEVER been this good!

I had been told about that trick but we might have to do it again!

I grew up in the baptist church where people 

got all dressed up to go to church every Sunday.

So when we started going to the Catholic church,

It was an adjustment to see people wearing

jeans and shorts and all sorts of clothes

to church,

but realized that

the most important part was that these people

were 

THERE!

In church on Easter Sunday,

Father commented on how nice everyone looked

and how we should always get dressed up to come 

to celebrate Jesus and show Him how much 

we loved Him and were celebrating Him.

Made me feel good.

I would love to see people showing up

in their
"Sunday Best"

like I grew up seeing.

We get dressed up...

in our Sunday best.

After church I snapped a couple of pictures

of the kids in the back yard before they peeled their 

church clothes off

and dove into bathing suits

and play clothes...

Then they hunted the eggs that the Easter Bunny had left 

hidden around the house...

We had a great Easter Sunday 

and 

wound up at SeaWorld,

yet again...

"free" trips to SeaWorld are always worth it,

especially when they do fun stuff for EVERY holiday.

We wound up getting tickets to their 

Second Annual Egg Hunt & Picnic.

It was cute and the only

egg hunt the kids participated in,

so it was worth it.

Then we tried to get a couple of pictures with

Shamu Bunny...

T wasn't having it...

So daddy helped...

Then we got a family picture.  

Notice how far from Shamu T is trying to be.

We caught a couple of shows.

Rode a couple of rides...

R's favorite, but could only see daddy.

Then mommy wanted to ride a "big kid" ride.

Why I chose this one, is quite beyond me!

We got DRENCHED!!!

Leading up to Easter weekend,

we did our annual egg decorating.

However, we do things a little differently in our house.

We enjoy boiled eggs, but don't eat them as much

as we do raw eggs.

And yearly, I throw away boiled eggs 

that don't get eaten and are still in our fridge

MONTHS after Easter.

So last year, I decided to attempt to dye raw eggs.

Why not???

It was a success!!!

And the kids enjoy picking out their eggs for use 

in pancakes, muffins

and what not.

We do occasionally have accidents

and lose an egg,

or two...

(strangely thanks to the oldest kid!)

A is admiring their handy work and counting our eggs.

Happy Easter

From Our Family

To Yours!

(my boys)

MY WORLD!

Weekend of Fun!

I think we are slowly getting used to our new life.

We are all enjoying the new work hours 

for daddy.

For as long as we have been working,

I think the earliest my husband

has been home from work on a 

daily basis 

was when he worked for 

the government and we lived

about 15 min from his office.

We would see him about 5:30pm

Since he has gotten used to getting up and into the office

before 7am (owning your own business will do that to you)...

he kept the hours going here.

When we owned our business back in NC,

he would be out of the house by 6:30am

and we wouldn't see him 

until 6:30pm.

That is 12 hours!

And to us - that wasn't a whole lot of fun.

He kept with the early to work mindset here...

but now he gets home around 3:30pm!

None of us are quite sure how to act!  

HA!

Because of these awesome hours...

we are able to do things in the afternoons

after daddy gets home.

School is done,

naps are done,

no homework...

So we decided to take a little time to do some fun stuff

as a family this past weekend.

(Weekend before Halloween)

Friday
 Daddy got home around 1:30pm

We had some errands to run, but loaded up the kids

and headed out to SeaWorld!

SeaWorld San Antonio is only about 15 minutes 

from our door!

And my father-in-law, purchased us season tickets

as a "welcome to Texas"

gift.

So we ventured out to SeaWorld on Friday afternoon.

SeaWorld apparently does the holidays up right!

There is something called "Howl-O-Scream"

at SeaWorld.

They had the whole park

decked out in 

pumpkins,

jack-o-lanters,

ghouls,

and 

other 

Halloween creatures.

We had a great time, until we ventured into the

"Scare Zone".

And discovered that the 

ghouls and goblins

come out in force

in the Scare Zone

after 6pm!

I was VERY impressed

with the production 

that this park put on for 

Halloween!

My children -

not so much!

Taking a 7 yo, 5 yo, 2 1/2 yo and 1 yo 

through a "haunted" theme park...

not the best idea.

My oldest two boys were crawling up 

UNDER 

me and my husband.

The little ones were pretty clueless

but not the bigger ones.

I was worried that we would have 

both of them staring us down 

in the middle of the night

begging to crawl into our 

bed...

surprisingly we made it through the night

with no extra bodies in there!

Unfortunately,
I didn't think to take any pictures
of the ghouls and goblins...

I did, however, get a shot of daddy
taking three of the kids on a ride.

T.C. enjoying
"The Monster Mash"

I am going to try and flip it but
was to anxious to share...

Saturday 

we went to

the library

to paint sugar skulls

for

Dia de los Muertos.

Sunday

After the rest of our "stuff"

arrived from North Carolina and was unloaded...

we traveled about 30 minutes south of San Antonio

to a little town called Devine, Texas

to visit

Devine Acres Farm.

I am a LOVER of

Hillridge Farms in Youngsville, NC.

I absolutely enjoy

taking the kids there every year...

I was hoping that this place would be similar.

Not so much.

It was nice

but unfortunately

it has pretty big shoes to fill

and it left me a tad

disappointed.

But we had fun anyways

and 

got to scope out potential 

Christmas Trees

on their farm!!