Our Easter Parade

Samuel got his first real Easter basket this year. We put it together ourselves and stocked it with some of his favorite things, including C-A-R-S. He can never seem to get enough of those ! The bunny on the far left was a Hallmark after-Easter find from last year. It was marked down to around $3 and Mom almost forgot it was put back in the closet. It sings "At The Hop" and the various stuffed animals' mouths open and close while singing. It's really corny, but cute, and Samuel's had a blast dancing around to it since he learned where the on/off button is located ! He also got much more chocolate than he did at Valentine's, although we've been doling it out a little at a time, in an effort to control the hyperactivity !

Checking things out, item by item.....

We had Easter dinner at Dad's parents. The grands had a surprise for Samuel----ANOTHER Easter basket !

Checking out the airplanes with Grandpa...

This pic was after services Sunday evening----Samuel decided he could use his basket for an Easter hat !

After Grandma's wonderful dinner, Samuel got to hunt Easter eggs. Hiding them wasn't too hard, as they were kept mostly out in the open.

These 2 pics show Samuel with his basket full, although he left some eggs "unfound".

Besides the fact that it was pretty chilly, Samuel got bored before too long and enlisted Norm's help finding eggs.....

Norm carried his basket for Samuel, and Samuel would put the eggs in......if he felt like it.....some of the eggs he seemed to be particular about and wouldn't pick them up !

Dad's friend, Norm, with Dad and Samuel. (We have a picture of Dad with Norm's boys posed somewhat like this; of course, they're now adults----yikes !)

Samuel with Mom & Dad

Samuel with friends Norm, Renita, and Lauren

Weekend Away

I'm usually so behind on posting pics but thought I'd get these up sooner rather than later ! We made a quick weekend visit to our friends, the Pitts. Samuel had lots of fun playing with their kids even though they're teens & preteen.


"Engineering" Matthew had made these helicopter-type things to fly that Samuel thought were so much fun.

Getting down with Matthew.

"Aquarium" may be too big for his vocabulary, but not "fish", which of course he found fascinating.

Checking out Erin's cell phone, which he also loves.

I thought these were so cute. They have a Wii, so while people were playing (in these pics, Matthew and Clint), Samuel was standing right behind them, mimicking their every move !!

It was SNOW much fun !

...or was it !? These first two pics show Samuel's growing annoyance---I guess we stayed out too long and tried to take too many pictures !

But before then, he did have some fun.......

Our pathetic little "snowman" (looks like some sort of injured penguin or something)---we got out around 10:30 am, but so much of the snow was already melting that we just didn't do a very good job !

We did dust the snow off his swing and he enjoyed that for a little bit.

The "person" who seemed to have the most fun was our dog, Sackett !

After we came in, Dad made hot chocolate for us and Samuel had his first serving of that---which seemed to be his favorite thing about "snow day" !