Easter 2018

It was another wonderful Easter with our friends and family and lots of egg hunts!  Our first egg hunt of the year was the church egg hunt.  We first went downstairs so the kids could watch the puppet show that the Lads to Leaders group would be preforming at the convention the following week. 

 Ready to hunt eggs!

 Later that afternoon, we went over to Ms. Kim's house to hunt more eggs with friends!

 Mrs. Betsy always does a great job capturing a group picture of all the kids.  It grows bigger and bigger each year!

The week of Easter, Mason had his (final) Easter program as school.  All the kids put on a great performance.

We were excited that Granddaddy, Gigi and Mimi were all able to come too!

 And of course Mommy wasn't going to miss it!

 He found a bunch of eggs! 

Class picture!

The Saturday before Easter, we went over to my parent's house for our annual Easter egg hunt!  It's one of my favorite events of the year.  

 Dying Easter eggs!

 We let Cooper hunt his eggs before the bigger kids took off.  He did a great job gathering all the egg he saw!

And since the big kids included mommy and daddy, I didn't get any pictures of the kids hunting eggs.  Uncle Jordan and crew gave us some tough competition this year!

 A big thank you to my parents for all our Easter treats and a fantastic dinner!

On Sunday, the Easter Bunny dropped off a few goodies for Kate and Mason.  Chocolate bunnies, snickers, beach towels, nail polish, nerf guns, new toothbrushes and toothpaste and other toys.

 We enjoyed a nice service at church and then we were off to another annual tradition - lunch at the FSU University Center.  This is another one of my favorite traditions.  Lunch is always delicious and each year the event gets bigger and better.  They changed the location this year from the ballroom to the brand new Champions Club.  It is SO nice but probably the only time I will ever be in there.  Haha. After lunch, the kids loved visiting with the Easter Bunny in the huge kids area that had some of the best face painters and balloon makers I have seen! For some reason neither one of mine wanted to get their face painted this year.

Mason decided at the last minute he would see the Easter Bunny.  Afterwards he told me, "That wasn't scary at all!".  I know, silly boy.

  Lunch with a view...

The view from the new Champions Club.

After a filling lunch, we went back home for a couple hours until we went to meet Mimi and Papa for dinner at Roadhouse.  It was a wonderful Easter!

Spring Break 2018

We had a low key spring break this year but we still had a great time!  It was SO nice to have the whole week off with the kids.  The first weekend of spring break, we took the kids to the Jacksonville Zoo for a quick trip.  We left early that Saturday morning and arrived at the zoo 30 minutes before it opened. 

 We paid for two tickets to let the kids feed the giraffes while we were there.  They were hungry!

 I thought Mason would hesitate once it was his turn, but he walked right up and feed that giraffe!

 It was a gorgeous day at the zoo!

 We walked around the zoo and took the train towards the end of the day.  We ended up riding it all around the park - which was a nice break from walking.  Once we got off the train, we decided we couldn't leave without buying tickets to see the special dinosaur exhibit.  

After the zoo, we checked into our hotel and then went to dinner at one of our favorite places - Bahama Breeze.  On Sunday, we spent most of the day shopping before heading back home that evening. 

The kids and I spend the next several days in town.  We went to Sky Zone one morning and ran errands another day.  We were also able to meet daddy for lunch a couple days!  On Friday, we had plans to take the boat out for the day but unfortunately the motor wasn't running properly.  Instead, we met up with the Stewarts for a fun day at the coast.  We started out the morning at the Gulf Specimen Marine lab - which was a really neat place!  None of us (Evers) had ever been there before.  

 I have always been scared of horseshoe crabs but we learned from our trip that they are harmless.  There was a touch tank full of them and Kate didn't hesitate to pick one up.  Not me!!

After the Marine Lab, we drove over to St. Marks where the Nina and the Santa Maria replicas were docked. 

 We had a fun day with Izzy and Levi!

It was a fun, but cold, spring break!