An Easter Tradition in Minerva, TX...

It was the annual W.A.M Easter in Minerva.  (Wistner, Ammerman, Mize)  We went to Aunt Lois's place up there (Matt's mom).  We've gone up there for Easter the last 3 or 4 years and plan to keep going back until she revokes our invitation!

We went up Friday night.  Tommy and I had to work so we got home, packed and got on the road about 6:00.  We had a little traffic on FM2920 (as usual) but made good time.  We decided to stop in Brenham and have dinner.  We found a nice little Mexican place with a full parking lot and assumed from all the cars that it was the place to eat.  It was good.  I can see us stopping there again when we're up there way.

We got to the ranch about 10:00.  To our surprise Erin was still up and at it!!  Since the daycare was closed she spend the night Thursday with Gram and Pawpaw and was with them all day on Friday.  I thought for sure she would be in bed no later then 9:00 and that was pushing it.  Nope, it was about 10:30 when she settled down and went to sleep.  This is a big deal to us because no matter how late Erin stays up, she always wakes up between 5:30 and 6:00!!  NEVER sleeps in.  This happened Saturday morning!

Saturday brought a lot of fun.  They had predicted rain, but some fluke of nature came thru on Friday and cleared the way for Saturday.  It was a Chamber of Commerce day.  High clouds and a lot of clear blue sky.

The kids played in the dirt around the house (the dogs territory).  They moved to the drive way and played in the rocks.  They visited the basketball goal and played with the little wagon.  We ate lunch and they went down for a nap.  Erin of course was too excited about hunting eggs to actually sleep.  When Billy the Kid got up the Hunt Was On!

There were over 100 eggs hidden by the Easter Fairies and we think we found them all.  There were candy and prizes like money and lottery tickets in some of them, but mostly candy.  The kids gave up the hunt quickly when they figured out that the eggs had candy in them.  They both quit and dug in.  After that, we had a fishing tourney.  I caught the first fish and William caught his very first fish ever.  Amy caught the prettiest fish and Erin caught the biggest.  Thanks Uncle David for making that adventure possible!

We had a nice dinner and got to visit in the cabin.  (I keep forgetting to take a picture of the cabin when I'm up there!!!)

Yesterday was church.  Erin and William started out in church waiting for Children's church and were not the best behaved members of the congregation.  Both of them were "exploring" when they were supposed to be seated and Erin has no volume control so she was blasting in her fog horn voice.  Tommy had to carry her out during the prayer and I think I heard a collective sigh of relief from the congregation.  Shortly there after, William was carted out and they were taken downstairs to the kid's area.

All in all another successful trip!