Easter and the Nature Center

For Easter this year, we stayed in Champaign and spent time together as a family. The Easter bunny brought B tons of stuff and he enjoyed following the jelly bean trail from his room to his hidden Easter basket filled with TONS of snacks and then he was off to find over 50 eggs throughout the house and the backyard with lots of surprises along the way.

Opening all of his eggs from daycare's Easter Egg Hunt - thanks Ms. Liz for the cool glasses since B's old glasses "fell in the water and got eaten by sharks"!

Mr. B ready to go to mommy's work for a busy season meal of Olive Garden on his day off of school for Good Friday! Ohhh and there's only FOUR days left of BUSY SEASON YAYAYAY!!!

Easter Bunny loot

Bladen's "favoritest" thing from the Easter Bunny

Bladen and Nate ready for our picnic

Bladen's 1st time EVER eating Jimmy Johns... his response after I asked him if he likes it - "It was SOOOOOOO good"

Bladen and Nate plated 27 cups of veggies for our garden!

This weekend Danielle and I thought we'd take the kids out to the Nature Center since both of our husbands were out of the state. Bladen and Lauren have been buddies since they were born and get to spend a lot of time together since they are in the same class at school. They are also in a Sports class on Saturdays, so this morning we went to soccer, went to lunch at Mickey D's and then headed to the Nature Center in Urbana.

Putting money in the dinosaur

Walking over the "scary" bridge

They love being wild and free out in the woods!

Super CUTE!

Stopping at the yucky swamps

Bladen can never just SMILE... he has to CHEESE it!

Taking a rest

The Matthews girls - Danielle, Lauren and Gwen

Me and Bladen!

We are on our way to pick up Nate from the airport tonight, which will be nice. It's been a long 3 days without him!