It's Easter weekend & Mase & I are off to South Dakota to spend the weekend on the farm with my family. Unfortunately Shane has to work so we ended up making the 7 hour drive alone. I left at 530am & Mason slept for almost 3 hours. Once he woke up we stopped to stretch our legs, have breakfast & then back on the road. He was in the car seat chilling the rest of the way playing with his books & toys & we stopped again for lunch around noon. By 1:15pm we had reached our destination - Grandpa & Grandma Farm's house.
We were both pretty happy to be out of the car:
The first thing Mason saw when we got out of the car was the sheep & all the baby lambs. He was fascinated by them & loved to sit & watch them.
He could have done this for hours! We spent the next couple of days playing, coloring, reading books...
...watched more lambs & had fun trying to feed them corn - even though most of the corn ended up on the ground!?
On Saturday evening we dyed eggs for the"Easter bunny"with my nieces Kyra, Joslyn & nephew Lane. My sister-in-law & I were talking about Pinterest & all the cute Easter egg ideas on there & then we started talking about what produced the brightest colored eggs - the dye tablets that come with the kits or food coloring? So we put our skills to the test, tried both & it was determined that the food colored eggs were by far the brightest.
This was Mason's 1st time dying eggs & didn't quite get the concept of it so Mommy stepped in to help. We did 4 eggs - each with our initials on it & one extra for the doggies.
Later after all the kids went to bed, the Easter bunny's "helpers" stuffed plastic eggs with candy for the Easter egg hunt the next morning. The "Easter bunny" hid them all outside early Easter morning & the kids had so much fun finding them all. It didn't take Mason long to figure out what this egg hunt was all about. He watched his cousin's picking up these oval shaped objects, putting them in their baskets & before long he was picking them up himself.
And yes, my kid is still in his PJ's....classy I know :)
Later that morning Mason discovered his Easter basket & loved going through it pulling out all the fun stuff inside. He got crayons, a coloring book, a stuffed lamb, a baby chick that chirps when sitting in your hand, a wind-up bunny that hops, bubbles, 2 books & eggs filled with vanilla goldfish:
Around 11:30am, my grandparents, aunt, uncles, a few cousins & our dear family friend Mary Ellen came over & my mom ended up making an amazing Easter lunch. We all stuffed our bellies full but not too full for dessert. As always, their is dessert after every meal in my mom's house which this time was coconut cake & cupcakes which were oh so yummy:
I may or may not have went back for 2nd's....maybe even 3rd's :)
We spent the rest of the day being lazy, watched more sheep, blew our new bubbles outside & got everything ready to head back to KS in the morning.
We left super early Monday morning & the trip back to Kansas went just as smoothly as the trip to SD. Mason is such a good little traveler! We were sad that Shane wasn't able to spend the weekend with us but managed to have a great time with my family. Mason loved being on the farm & we are looking so forward to coming back at the end of August.
I hope everyone had a wonderful Easter & was able to spend some time with their own families!!
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