Easter at Coco's

Saturday, March 26th:

Easter at Coco & Fletch's house

The morning began with Stryker's baseball practice followed by a day filled with Easter festivities at Coco & Fletch's house. Stryker & LakeLynn decorated eggs, ate hamburgers with fries & onion rings, played with new bubble machines, hunted eggs (LakeLynn actually found the most difficult ones - on one fan blade & behind a picture), painted the driveway, played with sand, ate an ice cream cake, played pin the tail on the bunny (Stryker won both rounds), & played with other new toys. Thank you Coco & Fletch for a wonderful day!

Zoo fun

Friday, March 25th

Birmingham Zoo with family, grandmommy, Talan, & Dali

CEC Easter celebration

Thursday, March 24th

Stryker's class party for Easter

I met Stryker at his classroom at 8:45am & rode the bus to an assisted living facility in Gardendale. Stryker was excited & announced it to all of his friends that his mom was riding beside him on the bus! Hope that feeling never goes away. Before leaving, Stryker's class sang Happy Birthday to Mrs. Kay, the director. Happy Birthday, Mrs. Kay!! Thank you for all that you do.

The 2 kindergarten classes were separated to hunt Easter eggs throughout the facility (> 200 eggs) while the residents observed. It was touching to see the residents get excited & receive handmade Easter cards from the kindergarteners during the egg hunt. After all of the eggs were found, Easter songs were sung to the residents. Giving back to the community is priceless.

I rode beside Stryker on the bus back to school. Party time!!! Coco met us there with LakeLynn. The class sang another 3 Easter songs & then enjoyed all of the yummy snacks.

Northwestern cookout

Monday, March 21st:

Northwestern lunch cookout - Hoover branch

Logan invited the kiddos & me to the cookout. Since the big monthly award at Northwestern is the Rhino Award, I decided to have the famous cake lady - Mrs. Vicki Stoves - make a strawberry rhino cake. It turned out perfect & yummy as always!! It was definitely the talk of the cookout!

Mani & pedi

Tuesday, March 22nd

LakeLynn got her first manicure & pedicure!! She loved it & kept saying she wanted to do it again!

Mommy accomplishment

Proud mommy moment -

The day I successfully braided LakeLynn's hair!!!!!

LakeLynn was so excited & kept encouraging me throughout the "slow" process. After seeing the back of it in the mirror, she told me, "See mommy, I knew you could do it!"