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Last weekend was our annual Easter trip to the Country to see Granny and Peepaw. Erin loves to go up there and we made the mistake of telling her we were going earlier in the week. So, every day we heard "are we going to the Country today". We had to tell her how many "naps" she would have before we went. (She calls going to bed a nap.)
We got there first and it wasn't 5 minutes before Erin had Peepaw taking her for a ride on the tractor. From there they got on the golf cart, then the 4 wheeler. She also insisted the swing her on the swing. Peepaw on one side and Daddy on the other. She kept telling them to push her high in the sky. Poor Peepaw must have slept really, really good Saturday night.
The kids were hopped up on sugar in no time. They all know that there is a goodies stash beside Peepaw's chair and they hit it. Luke wanted candy corn and couldn't understand why Granny didn't have it for him. Wrong holiday Bud. Jake is sneakier. He slips in and takes candy from a bowl on the counter and heads out before he unwraps it. He hardly ever gets busted that way. Luke and Erin on the other hand get caught red handed every time. They go for the stash in the living room right by Peepaw's chair in plain sight. I guess they'll learn eventually.
The guys had to work on one of the deer stands and something on the house so they were gone about 2 hours. We didn't want to hunt eggs before they got home so we tried dying eggs. I brought all the stuff except for the vinegar. Oops. We let the eggs soak but they never did color. It kept the kids busy for about 30 minutes and that was really the point of the exercise!
At last it was time to hunt eggs. Granny had them all filled with candy and had 6 filled with money. I had to explain that everyone got 2. It still didn't work. They were more interested in finding the eggs than listening about not getting more than two shiny eggs. Of course Jake found the most eggs. Luke did really good too but tended to follow Jake around and that didn't produce a lot of eggs. Erin just ran around the yard. She got the hang of it after a little while and did find some eggs on her own, but mostly Tommy had to help her.
Granny spread a quilt out in the shade and the feast began. As expected, they were less excited about the money filled eggs. They were after the candy. The kids were introduced to Pop Rocks. It was hilarious. 6 of the eggs Granny bought were pre-stuffed with Pop Rocks. Luke was the brave soul to go first and I showed him how to eat them. Erin went next. Both of them made silly faces and loved the popping. They were even more excited when they figured out they can bite them and make really loud pops. Too funny.
As usual for up there, Erin had no nap. She was going strong all day. She had gotten up at 5:30 and never looked back. We were not even to the Mize's community mailbox (about 2 miles from the house) on the way home before she was sound asleep. We even stopped off on the way home for a coke and she never woke up. She plays so hard when we go up there that she crashes just as hard on the way home.
And it wouldn't be a trip to the Country without calling the cows up and feeding them by hand. Erin kept calling for them - "here cows, here cows..." It was hilarious. Tommy went out to the pasture to call them up and he had "helpers". It made Granny nervous to have them out there with the bull. He's young and a little on the squirrely side. You can see in the pictures that the cows were more scared of the kids than the kids were of the cows. They just run up to them wanting to pet them. The cows are definitely not used to little noisy people!
Here are some pics from this weekend.
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