Easter Weekend!

I just wanted to share with you many of the pictures that we took over Easter weekend. 

It started with the kids checking out their Easter baskets, followed by a egg hunt....Easter bunny left about 60 eggs out in the side yard for the kids to find!!  The girls had to go back to their moms house, then Mark, Jack and I had Easter dinner at my in-laws house and went down to the stream behind where they live.  Jack had a great time throwing rocks and sticks into the water and having fun crossing the stream with Daddy!

We're going to head to my Moms in a couple weeks to have a 'late' Easter dinner!  :)

I hope you enjoy our pictures!

I guess we didn't make out as well as I thought with the flood....

At the beginning of the week, we had heavy rains for days.  Our area got over 8 inches of rain!  So many homes and businesses ended up flooded and some people are still not able to go back to their houses due to unsafe conditions or lack of electricity.  We bought our house only a little over a year ago, and didn't really know how the basement would make out with all of that rain, but thankfully it stayed dry.  We were fortunate enough to walk away with no problems......  OR SO WE THOUGHT!

I got home from work late last night to find a note in the kitchen from my husband saying we had no water....no brushing my teeth, using the bathroom and no shower.  Great.  All it said was "No water, call the well company in the morning".  That can't be good!!  I knew our well pump and tank were very old and we'd have to replace it sooner or later, but we were hoping for 'later'!  Come to find out, the little underground cement thing out in the backyard that holds the well tank and pump was under 10 feet of water!  It shorted out the well pump.  My 70 degree day where I was planning on going out geocaching and possibly visiting my sister and niece ended up being a day where I called all over looking for someone with a pump.  I called the Lisbon Fire Department and thankfully they were able to pump us out!  Hooray!!  Jack liked that the fire departments truck came to our house!  THANK YOU LISBON FIRE DEPARTMENT!!

Next, we needed to have the well people come out...I was really afraid that because it was the holiday weekend, we may not get anyone out to help us until Monday, but thankfully (again!!) they came out, replaced the holding tank and fixed the pump!  Thank you Riley's Heating and Plumbing!!

While they were here working on it, Jack and I enjoyed a little lunch out on the deck.  Jack had fish sticks and applesauce....Mmmmm!! 

We played on the swings, the slide, on the bouncer, played T-ball, built sand castles and colored on the driveway with sidewalk chalk!  What a great time we had!!  It was so beautiful outside!

Check out this cool castle and road that we made!  Of course, Jack thought it would be fun to 'bull-doze' it over right after I took the picture!

I made this little flower on the driveway, then Jack added his own flower and even a sun shining over in the corner! 

You're becoming quite an artist my little buddy!  Just like Daddy!

A lazy sunny day....

Today, the sun finally came out and it made it to 60 degrees!  We're getting there!  The weekend is supposed to be up in the high 60's maybe even 70 degrees!!  Woo hoo!!

We had a pretty uneventful day today...lounged around in the morning, then headed outside for lunch and for some fresh air time!!

Jack spotted the first flower of spring....some daffodils!  Then it was off to climb the apple tree!!

I love this one of Jack and Sasha!  They were just playing fetch and sat in the shade to relax!

The flood, the pet store and my little cowboy!

Because of the terrible rain we've had the last few days, many of the local rivers have flooded and caused some major flooding of homes and businesses.  The rain finally stopped today, so Jack and I took a drive around Jewett City to see how high the rivers there were.  These couple of pictures are from the waterfall at Ashland pond...Jack, Daddy and I go fishing here often, and it's normally just a quiet waterfall and small river that runs under a foot bridge.  Today, it was the roaring rapids...the water across the street flooded many homes and they were just about ready to close the road when we left.  I feel so sorry for all of the people who suffered damage to their homes due to this flood.  Thankfully, we managed to make out okay.

We couldn't do any playing outside today, so we decided to take a quick trip to the pet store so that Jack can see his animal friends....

This rat was cleaning it's belly...Jack thought that was pretty cool, because he said "I can't lick my tummy like that!"

Another animal that Jack really liked there today was a pair of ferrets...they were playing together in their cage, rolling around and chasing each other!!  This little guy was being chased out of it's toy ball by the other one when I took this one!  Jack thought they were pretty funny!  :)    

One quick stop to Walmart to check out the summer toys led us to this reallly cute cowboy hat! Jack loved wearing it....I think he looked so cool in it....he was singing "'cause I'm a cowboy, baby!" throughout the store!

The worst rain I've seen!

Today was another day of heavy, flooding rain.  Parts of the state were declared a 'state of emergency' because of all of the flooding and roads shut down.  We had a scheduled playdate about 15 miles from our house at a school, but they hadn't cancelled it, so Jack and I headed down there!  The roads were terrible, especially the one near the school.  At one point, I didn't think we'd make it, there was so much water over the road and police were starting to put up blockades.  When we got there, we could see all of the other moms cars, so we went in to play.  It was a 'color Easter eggs' playdate and Jack was very excited to do that! 
After about 15 minutes, one of the other moms was getting messages on her phone saying that the kids at the local schools were being sent home and more and more roads were closing.  We decided at that point, we should probably head home...but Sarah was nice enough to send Jack home with hard boiled eggs and a coloring kit so that he could do it at home!!  Thanks Sarah!!  :)  
It was a crazy ride home...more flooding than before!  I had to get off the highway for gas, and when I went to leave the gas station, the police were there putting up more signs closing that direction of the road!!!  I had to go back down the opposite way on the highway, then turn around to come back up again!  Thankfully, we made it home safe and sound.

Jack couldn't wait to make his Easter eggs, so we did those as soon as we got home!

They came out really great!  Jack even got fancy with some of them, making them multicolored and decorated them with stickers!

Nice job little buddy!!  :)

Bunnies and more bunnies!

Jack and I decided to have a special Easter-week breakfast today!!  Check out this Easter Bunny toast with an egg in the middle!  It may be hard to see, but it came out pretty good!  Mmmmm!!  

Today was yet another rainy cold day....so we just hung out around the house.  We watched some cartoons, then did another Easter craft before Jack headed upstairs for his nap!  (By the way...today is the first time Jack isn't wearing Pull-ups to bed!  He said "I'm a big boy now, so I should wear underwear!"

Let's see how he does!  Keep your fingers crossed....not having to buy Pull-ups would be a nice little chunk of money saved every month!  :)

Anyway, back to our craft....I figured we'd do a fairly easy paper plate craft today....I think it came out pretty cute!  We borrowed some plastic Easter eggs from the ones he found at the egg hunt on Saturday!  Looks like the Easter Bunny is hiding in the grass with all of the eggs!

Easter egg hunt, Easter Bunny and a baby hawk!

This morning was Jacks Easter egg hunt at Lisbon Meadows Park!  It was only 25 degrees out, so we had to bundle up!!   Jack was pretty excited, especially when they had all the kids walk over to the field where all the eggs were....there were thousands!!!  Ready.......set.......go!!!!!!

Jack got lots of eggs and the big chocolate bunny!  His cousins Luke and Hannah made out pretty good too!

Next stop....the Easter Bunny!!!

Jack jumped right up on his lap for a quick picture, then the Easter bunny gave him a lollipop!! 

Jack and I spotted something very cool outside of the hotel....on the street sign, just outside of the window was a baby hawk!  It was just sitting there and didn't even mind that I went out to take a couple of pictures of it!  Of course, the mommy hawk was probably  sitting in a nearby tree waiting to attack me, but thankfully she didn't!  I just wish I had the good camera with the big zoom lens!!

He was so cute and Jack loved him!!