A few days before Easter weekend I went down to the basement to put something in our spare room to find that the hallway and bedroom had been flooded. Ugh. SO not something I was wanting to deal with with the holiday weekend upon us and our trip to CA the following week. As if I didn't have enough to do, thanks. ;) Come to find out the city had just turned back on our outside water, and sometime over the winter or early spring the kiddos (we're guessing) turned the valve all the way up & the sudden pressure caused the pipe to burst when it was turned back on. Dry wall & insulation had to be ripped out, of course all of the carpet...it was just a big fat mess. And it took a good 7 weeks to get it all resolved because of our trip right in the middle of it all and working with contractors, the insurance company, etc etc. It reaffirmed for us how much we love our basement which holds our playroom and movie viewing area and my beloved treadmill. It couldn't be used for that entire 7 weeks with all the contents of the flooded room being haphazardly thrown into the Family Room by the 1800FLOODED guys. Half of it was wet and sat on tarps among our other belongings already in that room and we had huge fans on it all for days...tons of it we just had to sort through and toss. The family room basically looked like something out of that Hoarders show on TLC with all the furniture and junk stacked in there. What a nightmare...!
Anyhow, I had to document.
Back to Easter....
The kids woke up to a small Easter egg hunt. I'd much prefer to do this on Saturday but it's hard when Chris works all Saturday and doesn't get home until the kiddos are just going to bed. They got a few small gifts including the Rainbow Loom (which they both wanted - it's a bit of a "thing" around here for both boys and girls), some flip flops and sunglasses for summer (and our upcoming vacay)... but the biggest surprise was an egg revealing to them our big news that Baby #4 was on it's way. They looked a little stunned after Parker read the card...we filmed their reaction... it was pretty funny. It took a few for it to sink in, but even then they were oddly complacent about it. Throughout the course of the day they seemed to be more excited though. I was 11 weeks and totally showing, so we felt like we had to go ahead and tell our families that day as well as we made the Easter rounds. I was a bit nervous, I'm not going to lie, knowing it might be a little controversial what with our crazy year last year with me being sick, and I think for some it was, but overall it was great to get the news out!
After our hunt and Easter baskets, we got all spruced up for church. Should have taken a family pic but of course were running out the door like usual...;)
After church we were off to Mimi's house, where I think I've spent every Easter afternoon of my life besides just a few due to being out of town.
She always has a big egg hunt in her home. I'm so glad my kiddos have been able to carry on a tradition I had at Mimi's growing up my entire life. Always loved those big egg hunts!
Next stop was the Hansens, for another egg hunt of course and a yummy Easter dinner. I was apparently exhausted by the events of the day and only snapped a couple pictures. :)
