The Borland Family: Zoo trip and a Happy Easter to all!

First of all, we would like to wish a Happy Easter to everyone!

Now to back up for a minute. Yesterday Spring decided to arrive, for at least a day anyway. It was a gorgeous 70 degrees and sunshine galore! I can't imagine who would have wanted to be indoors yesterday-definitely not me! My friend Stacy (from work) and I decided, with the help of Brian (lol), that it was a perfect day to take Kaden and Hailey to the zoo. We spent a good portion of the afternoon there and the kids had a great time-Hailey even touched the jaw/teeth of a shark. She thought that was pretty cool! :-) The tiger was actually visible in his habitat-though the kids were so enthralled by the waterfall! Gotta love the 3 year old perspective on things, LOL On the way to the monkeys, Kaden grabbed for Hailey's hand. She was reluctant at first, but there were also subsequent hand holding opportunities throughout the day-it was too cute!! And of course, Hailey took along her stuffed monkey so that she could show it to the monkeys at the zoo.

Our first stop was the fish and sharks

Looking at the waterfall-I mean tiger :-)

hand in hand to the monkeys we go!

See my monkey!

Tickle-monster Hailey

Since I knew that tomorrow (or today, since I'm writing this a day late) would be cold and rainy, once we got home Hailey put on her pretty Easter dress and we headed out to the yard with some plastic Easter eggs for some photo fun. (thanks to Brian, the yard looked great....he mowed while we were away at the zoo!)

wearing a dress would not be complete without a twirl!

I found my favorite color

After our photoshoot (and I use that term very loosely, lol) we had dinner, went to the store and finally dyed some Easter eggs-yes I know, a little last minute, but there just wasn't time during the week...and they dried just in time for the Easter bunny to be able to hide them.

Boy, what a busy day Saturday turned out to be!

Today is Easter and the bunny has come and gone. Mr. Bunny hid a whopping 25 eggs (both plastic and real) both inside the house as well as outside. Silly bunny must have forgotten that Spring was only here for the day yesterday, lol. Oh well. We bundled up in rain coats and boots and headed out for a soggy egg hunt. Hailey had a lot of fun "spotting" the eggs all over. Inside the plastic eggs she was excited to find some pennies, nickels, dimes, quarters, and even a half dollar (compliments of one of my students, lol and....DINOSAURS!! (okay, dinosaur erasers that is). Hailey is big into dinos right now as they have been learning all about them at school this month. Although, one dino looks as though he had a battle this morning. For some odd reason Hailey decided to bite the tail of one orange dinosaur (not sure why as this is totally out of character for her). I hear a voice screaming from the back room..."mommy, mommy-I think you need to hot glue him back together!" Gotta lover her :-) Upon telling her that this miniature dinosaur tail would not be able to be glued back together, she LOST it!! You would have thought we had lost a family pet or something, lol. After giving Mr. Dino some hugs and kisses we decided to call him "stubby" and Hailey continued to play with him as if nothing ever happened to him. Silly girl!

The Easter bunny came!

Look, look, look-I found an egg!

silly bunny must have been cooking an egg

outside for our soggy egg hunt


searching for the last egg outside-I found it!! :-)

This morning after Brian went to work, Hailey and I had an impromptu fashion show (aka, ty on the new clothes that Grandma and Grandpa Mellott sent in the mail, lol)