Our Great Weekend!

Austin says my posts are too long... Too bad! I'm posting it anyway!

The Matthews' family has had a pretty excellent weekend! Friday was Austin and my second anniversary. I know, I know, we are doing good-- two years, two kids! We were so excited to get to go out on our first "date" in a while. Annie and JJ (thanks so much!) watched Makenna for us and we went to Applebees (with a giftcard from Austin's mom-thank you!) and to the movies (with free tickets I got as a gift from my old school). A cheap but fun date I would say! It was so nice to get to go out, just the two of us! Austin opened my doors and held my hand... almost like he likes me! ; ) And apparently Makenna was a good girl while we were gone. So it was a great thing!

Saturday Austin's school had an Easter egg hunt for the kids. Saturday was really yucky, yucky weather so they had to move the hunt indoors. I have to say, I was pretty disappointed in it. They had all the 0-3 year olds crammed in a tiny room and they just threw eggs in the middle of the floor. And it was so, so hot in there! I had to step out because I thought I was going to be sick! But I think Makenna had fun which is all that really counts I guess!

And they are off! When they said go, Makenna instantly dove for the eggs!

Then she pretty much got lost. There were just way too many kids in there! She just froze in the middle of the floor! She ended up with just four eggs, but she is just little so that is ok! She didn't know she could have got more!

We let Makenna use her bag from Grandma Becky as her Easter basket on Saturday. She is so cute holding her "purse"! Also thanks to Grandma Becky for that little outfit. It was perfect for cold weather and also perfect for an Easter egg hunt!

Makenna and all of her cute little friends! She just did not want to pose for a picture!

Makenna and mom checking out her Easter eggs. She ended up with a sticker and whistle, a top, a bracelet, and a little foam bunny.

The rest of the day was spent having lunch, taking a family nap, and then that afternoon Makenna and I got to go to Jillian's house to make and decorate Easter cookies! Then Austin watched Makenna so I could run to the store.

*Okay, get ready for a rant... So I went to the store. The lady at the check out said, "Oh you are having a baby!" "Yeah..." "Any day now, huh?" "Umm... no!" So here it is, NEVER, NEVER presume to tell a pregnant lady when she is due. NEVER, EVER mention how large she is. NEVER tell her she looks ready to go any day now. No one likes to hear they are big! No one likes to hear that they look like they are 9 months pregnant when they are only 7 1/2! Just don't mention it! It gets on my nerves more than anything else while I am pregnant... I can't help that I get as big as a whale! Just stop and think people! *Now going back to happy weekend news... : )

Today Makenna slept in until 8. Way to go Makenna! Then she got to see what the Easter bunny brought her!

She loved the little bus with her new baby markers in it! Only she doesn't use them as markers; she thinks they are little people or something!

Look at all of Makenna's fun toys-- bracelets, bendable bunnies, a coloring book, wow!

Makenna loved putting ALL of her bracelets on at once!

After she took everything out of her bucket, Makenna cracked us up by putting it on her head! Silly girl!

Soon it was time to get ready for church. Makenna is such a blessed little girl to have Grandmothers that love her so much! Both sent her fun packages with adorable clothes in them! She wore a dress from Grandmom to church today and an outfit for Easter egg hunting and one for dinner from Grandma Becky. And she has a dress to wear next week from Grandma Becky too! What would we do without Grandmothers? (Probably not have clothing for our children!). Thanks Grandmas for loving our little girl and taking care of her and sending her adorable things! We love you!

Makenna's dress from Grandma Becky. She is going to wear that one next week!

Her dress from Grandmom. She looked like an angel in it today! Makenna loves these poofy dresses-- she is such a girly girl!

Makenna dressed for church (can you tell she wouldn't take a nap this morning?). She looks so pretty! I wish she would smile though! : (

After church, we were able to go to Annie and JJ's house for Easter dinner. I just want to say, thanks so much for having us over! Makenna loves you guys and we like you a little too ; ) . Dinner was great!

Makenna dressed for dinner in an outfit from Grandma Becky (yep, still tired!)

Makenna had so much fun playing with Cole and the magnets! Cole and Logan are her best friends!

Uh oh... Annie may not let us come back! Makenna and Cole are making a mess of her cabinets! Those troublemakers! : )

After dinner we headed home to get Makenna ready for bed. We took off her clothes but before she could get in the bath, she somehow managed to get her Easter bucket stuck on her leg! She walked all over everywhere with it stuck on there!

Ha ha, silly Makenna has a bucket on her bottom! She ended up falling down and sitting in it! (Sorry, I wasn't fast enough to get a picture!)

Oh man, get that off mom!

Makenna is dressed in her Easter pjs. Good night! See you next Easter!

Once again, thanks to everyone who made this a special time for us and our little Makenna!