**Easter Weekend**

We had a very eventful Easter weekend. It started off Thursday night and we didn't stop until late Sunday night.

(WARNING: Pretty long post with lots of pictures!!)

Thursday night I was on my way home from work when Molly, my college roommate and wonderful friend who we haven't seen in over 2 years, called and said she was passing through Louisiana. It ended up she was passing 7 miles from our house. She had been in Florida with her husband for his Spring Training. I tried to convince her to spend the night because she had been driving since 7 a.m. and she still had 4 hours to go but she was ready to get home. Definitely can understand her pain! Cullen and I met Molly and Gracie at Sonic so they could have a potty break and grab something to eat. We didn't get to visit for very long, but it was wonderful to see the two (really 3 with the start of her belly!) of them.

I didn't get many pictures but here is one of Cullen and Gracie in the car while they were eating! The last time I saw Gracie she was 9 months old....needless to say she has grown a little! :)

Friday morning Ryan cut the grass and then we washed and waxed my truck. Cullen decided he wanted to ride the lawnmower with Daddy and he ended up catching on to how that thing operated!!! I'm sure he had a little help from Daddy on that one. Here are a few pictures showing him driving!


He knows how to push one more than the other to turn and everything, but when he is focused on laughing and showing off to Mom he forgets to watch where he is going!


Around noon we headed over to Uncle Geno's house for boiled crawfish. Cullen and Alaya helped Ryan and Jacques clean the crawfish before they boiled them! It was very funny and cute!


My child LOVES to wash his hands....or run his hands in the water....one of the two!

Uncle Jacques let Cullen pet one and he thought it was the best thing ever!

We had a lot of fun at Uncle Geno's and was so glad to be able to visit with wonderful family. Jacques and Lauren came over that night and we ended up staying up late talking and catching up.

Saturday was a pretty calm day, but we got a lot done. We ended up riding horses with my family and had a great day in the beautiful weather. That night we went out to eat for Pawpaw Joe's 53rd Birthday. It was a lot of fun and it had been a long time since we laughed that much.

All 13 of us at La Hacienda...bless that waiter!

That night the Easter Bunny passed for Cullen and this is what he left for him....he is one lucky little one!

He woke up that morning and he didn't see what he had gotten, so we went and took our baths to get ready for the day. When he walked in to the living room and spotted his "basket" and got REALLY excited. He started shaking and saying "Mine? Mine? Mine?" It was really cute and the video captured it all, but I don't know how to do that on here quite yet!

This is him telling Mom...NO, NO, NO to eating his candy!!

That morning after church everyone came over to the house and we BBQ'd and played around.

The Young children and Cullen Easter morning.

The Richard Family....I'm clearly talking and Cullen is not interested, but we have one!!!

Cullen riding his tractor around the yard giving his Mom grief about taking his picture. ;-)

He gave up in his swing and slept there for about 2 hours. I wanted to put him in his bed but he would wake up and not want to get out of his swing, so I let him sleep!

All the kids got a kite so of course the grown ups had to "put them together and try them out" for them!

We had an awesome weekend and hope you and your family did as well. We hope everyone of you are doing well.