Mary and Molly's Sisterly Adventures!: Easter Weekend 2012

Easter weekend 2012 was fabulous!! I've come to figure out that the girls and I do best when we get out of the house to do something. I had my doubts that the weekend was going to be good when Poppa John called me at work Friday about 1:45pm that Nannie, who was keeping Mary Claire and Molly while Brian and I both worked day shift, was sick and that he was at Gammie's house with the ambulance trying to pick her up after a fall in the bathroom. So I left work early to go rescue Nannie from the girls and Poppa calls that he just got into a wreck! Talk about a crazy couple of hours! In the end, every one is fine and doing much better now.

Friday afternoon I decided that the girls and I would go to Kees Park in Pineville. Sadly, I only carried my cell phone with me so all my pictures are on there. One day I will ask Brian how to download them to the computer so I can post them on here. The girls had a blast and listened and played so well that I can't wait to go back!

Saturday I decided that we would go to the zoo. I picked the girls up some lunch and we stopped at Nannie and Poppa's to eat. Then we headed to the zoo and saw some amazing things!

A momma monkey and her baby!

I just love flamingos!

My sweet girls watching the otters!

Mary Claire's "cheese" face!

Mommy's "cheese" face! Mary Claire wanted to take a picture!

Both mesmerized by something!

Mary Claire posing on the panda at the playground!

Sweet Molly and "Bibby!"

Watching the turtle! She was scared last week of them!

BOTH the bears were out!

This was the best - the female white tiger playing in her pool with a medicine ball!

The monkey came to talk to us!

A momma kangaroo and her little joey!

The Andean condors both had their wings spread!

After the zoo we headed back to Nannie and Poppa's house to dye Easter eggs! Molly was a little aggravated that she didn't get to "help" as much as she liked, but we all had a good time!

Easter Sunday was a beautiful day! The girls and I slept in (me until 8am and them until 8:30am!). We then got dressed and headed over to St. Rita's for the Easter egg hunt. I had Mary Claire in the 3-5 year old section and Molly and I were waiting in the 0-2 year old section. They finally yelled, "Start!" and we headed out.....for only a second or so. Molly and I got into fire ants. :( Her poor feet are covered in bites. I scurried Mary Claire out of there and we headed to Nannie's house. We had a bubble gun and had a lot of fun with that! Gammie, Granddad, Nannie, Poppa, Uncle Mike, Aunt Billie, Hayden, Michael, David, Aspen, Tucker and the girls and me were all there for lunch! We spent most of the day outside enjoying the beautiful weather hunting eggs, swinging and bike riding! It was a glorious day!

Beautiful Mary Claire!