Harrison's school was on spring break the week before Easter, so we took that opportunity to visit my sister & her family in Tuscaloosa. I think this had been the longest stretch of time that we hadn't been to Tuscaloosa. We had a really fun week catching up and my boys had so much fun playing with their cousins. They look up to them so much so its always fun to watch them play together.
On our way to Tuscaloosa, we stopped in Birmingham to eat lunch at one of my favorite restaurants, Zoe's. I really wish they would bring them to Kennesaw! it was perfect b/c we got to sit outside and there was a fountain right by our table so the boys got to play around while waiting for our food. Here they are being silly and seeing if the side walk and benches feel hot...
When we got there, Jack had his tennis lesson, so we went up to the club to watch his practice. I was worried Harrison would throw a fit and want to play with him, but he did great. Jack did really well and could smack that ball across the court! Looks like he is taking after his mom! When we got back to Julie's house, Davis immediately found the piano...and pretty much stayed there all week! Pretty soon, all the boys were serenading us with their beautiful music...
Davis was a little leery of everyone when we first got there, but warmed up pretty quickly. He thought Aunt Julie was pretty funny...
The next morning Jack said he wanted to go on a picnic and ride his scooter on all of the sidewalks, which Julie explained meant that he wanted to go to the quad. (the big square that the University of Alabama is centered around). Sounded like the perfect way to spend the afternoon to me, so I packed up some lunches and off we went.
While we were eating, Jack and Harrison ran off and when I turned around, I could not stop laughing. Harrison had walked up to a girl that was studying outside of the library and introduced himself. Such the ladies man! He had all of the girls smiling at him within about 5 seconds. I had to explain to him that they were busy studying for a test, but I'm not sure he quite understood what that meant.
After our picnic, the boys rode their scooters all over the place. I forgot to get a picture, but Jack let Harrison borrow one of his razor scooters. I could not believe how well Harrison could ride it! He didn't fall down once! Even Davis got to ride around...
They spent the rest of the time playing hide & seek,
chasing squirrels and finding caterpillars. They were everywhere! At first I thought they were cute but then they kind of grossed me out. My sister said that she heard they were kind of like secadas, where every 7 years or so, they come out in mass quantities. Regardless, the boys loved them!
I wish that I could have caught Davis' reaction when we first put the caterpillar on him...he got really nervous and flicked it off really fast. Once he realized they were friendly, he thought it was really funny. We finished the afternoon off by stopping for frozen yogurt at their new shop called Sweet Cece's.
We had planned on going to the Birmingham Zoo that Thursday but as soon as we got up to Birmingham, it started raining so we mad a quick change of plans and headed over to the McWaine Center, which is Birmingham's science museum. The boys absolutely loved it, but it was full of field trips, so it was a little tricky trying to keep up with all of the boys.
They had quite a few water table exhibits so Davis was in Heaven (and soaked pretty quickly!)
They also had a dinosaur bone digging center, just like at the Tellus museum, so Harrison was really excited about that one!
That evening, Julie's sitter came over to watch the boys so we could go out to dinner with just the adults. One of my favorite spots in college just so happened to be next door to the restaurant, Five, so we stopped in for a bloody mary before dinner.
Julie was so sweet and loaded me up with some more clothes for the boys before we left. Davis just loved his new boots!
We had a great time and it definitely went by too fast! Thankfully we had Easter to look forward to when we got home. Our church had an Easter egg hunt the next morning, so we headed up to hunt for some eggs. Harrison was a on a mission, but Davis gave up once he realized that the eggs were empty! Our church always has the kids pick up empty eggs, and then they turn them in at the end in exchange for a goody bag so that all the kids get the same thing.
Neither of the boys were really into smiling that day, so this was the best I could get...
After the hunt, we came home and Davis took a nap while Harrison helped me make some yummy Easter cookies (thank you Pinterest!)
Just as expected, that evening the Easter bunny made a visit to our house! Harrison was so excited when he woke up and was super patient waiting for 1.5 hours before his brother woke up open the baskets and hunt for the eggs!
Our Sunday School class was cancelled that morning so it was nice not having to rush to get out of the house. We let the kids hunt for eggs, play with their new toys in their baskets and then headed to church.
Here is Davis with grandma & granddaddy...of course, that boy can find water to play with anywhere he goes!
We had a smaller crowd than usual for Easter this year, but Hunter, his girlfriend Ellen, and Lance's Aunt Melodie joined us for church this year and then a delicious Easter lunch at the Randolph's house.
It was a gorgeous day and truly made us remember everything we have to be thankful for this time of year. Happy Easter to all!
