After a long week of packing and getting things done at the OLD house, we headed to the beach for Easter Weekend. We debated if we should go or not-- the movers were coming on Monday morning and we still had quite a bit left to do to get ready, BUT, this would be my last time at the beach for a while, and I realized that I have been working myself really hard lately, just trying to get things ready, and that a weekend of relaxing (with round the clock help from my mom and aunt!!!) would be wonderful.
We got up on Friday morning and headed to the beach. We have been going around and around about getting me a new car-- my Explorer is big and I love it, but we just needed more room. The car debate has been a recurring one in our family for the past few months. I really wanted bucket seats for the backseat so that the boys could each have a seat and Hank could lay on the floor in between the two and then we would have the whole truck still for storage space. This probably sounds ridiculous to most people, but Hank is in my car ALL the time-- and he needs room!
Long story short, Eddie found a car in Wilson that met ALL of our "wants"-- BOTH of our wants (Eddie wanted 2 wheel drive, I wanted bucket seats, a pretty color, and heated seats-hehe). This car was even in our price range. Eddie spent the week leading up to Easter on the phone with the dealership doing the "wheeling and dealing" part of it. When we were pretty much on the same page, we decided that we would stop there on the way to the beach and I would test drive it. If I liked it, we would go ahead and get it!
I am now the driver of a REALLLLLLLY nice Ford Expedition! I LOVE it!!!! It has all the bells and whistles and I really wanted and it drives great-- with TONS of room in the back for the boys and all of our stuff!
So, that was Friday-- even after doing all of the negotiations ahead of time, we were still at the dealership for almost 3 hours. We left our house in Durham at 7:45 am and we didn't get to the beach until after 4:00. It made for a loooong day for all of us. (but so worth it to get that bomb car!)
We had a great time at the beach. The whole family was down, so that's 7 adults, 3 (and a half) kids, and 3 golden retrievers. Our house is not big. At all. Good thing we all get along :)
Cal and Jackson playing on the back deck-- they each had a lollipop and Cal drooled all over his shirt (he isn't very good at eating suckers yet...). That stained his shirt, btw.
Grandpa took all the boys on a boat ride. Rules are that little boys have to wear life jackets on the boats!
Eddie and Cal
Grandpa with his two boys!
(side note: my dad had a boat made when Jackson was first born and named it "The Little General", now that he has all these grandkids, he has decided to rename the boat: "CHAOS." Fitting, no?
Heading to an Easter Egg hunt. Cal found a pair of Jackson's boots and, of course, had to put them on immediately.
Running down the path to the cars.
Waiting for the hunt to start. It started at 11:00 and it was 100% over by 11:02-- hilarious!
Sweet little guy-- didn't care a thing about hunting for eggs. He preferred throwing them...and other kids would pounce on them immediately! HA! Also, you can't really see them in this picture, but his legs are COVERED in bruises... he is such a little boy!
And all three cousins sat next to each other to eat breakfast one morning-- my mom has high chairs for everyone-- that's a gooooood Grandma!!!
I hope you all had wonderful Easters. I meant to get a picture with Cal's Easter basket, but I guess I failed with all of the chaos of getting ready to go. He got some cute clothes from "grandma bunny" and a few Lightning McQueen items from momma bunny :) Andy also got the hook up too-- have y'all checked out Mud Pie baby clothing? They have some ADORABLE things. Since Eddie is such a golf lover, the boys for a few golf related outfits....too cute. They also have a bunch of nautical themed outfits-- seersucker with little crabs, etc. Cute stuff!
xoxo
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