A Busy Easter Weekend

What a busy weekend we've had! Garrett had Friday off work so he was able to play "Easter Bunny" for our neighborhood playgroup. Alli and her buddies had a lot of fun searching for eggs. We wore her out and she took a great nap when we got home, which was a huge help as Garrett and I had decided it was time to paint our garage and reorganize. I naively thought it would be a quick and easy task. Garrett correctly thought I was nuts! It took all Friday afternoon and evening to get it painted and we were using my brother Tony's commercial grade paint sprayer (thank you Tony!!!!!!). Thank goodness we had the sprayer or we would never have gotten it done. Turns out we had a lot of boxes we never got around to unpacking when we moved ~ oops! Some of it, was brought in the house so we could figure out what to do with it, other stuff was added to the junk pile (which my other wonderful brother, Danny, kindly helped us take to the local dump ~ I have the BEST big brothers!). The remainder was neatly (sort of) organized back against one wall in the garage. Once we finish repainting Alli's new dresser, we will actually be able to get both cars back in the garage. It is fairly amusing that we have a four car garage that currently only fits one car :) We turned one spot into our exercise room (and storage) and another into Garrett's work room for his tools and work bench. Right now, Garrett's spot is taken up with Alli's dresser. Guess we need to get moving on that huh???

Here's a shot of our messy garage in the middle of our work and one of Alli "helping" us . . .

I definitely overdid it on Friday with moving stuff around and threw my back all out of whack. Fortunately, my wonderful mom came over to entertain Alli while Garrett finished up in the garage and I laid on the couch. I was much more careful on Saturday when we were organizing the garage!

Sunday was surprisingly relaxing. We woke up early to get ready for church, where we had a great time at breakfast and greeting before the service. It was a very rainy day so we spent the afternoon playing inside before going to our neighbor's for Easter dinner. Alli's whole playgroup was there for a yummy potluck dinner. Luckily, the little ones all played well together and let the adults have some time to chat. What a wonderful day!

Here's a shot of the whole family at Church, Alli was looking towards her Adventures in God's Kingdom room :)

I was supposed to fly back to Boston last night, was packed, checked in for my flight and ready to go but all afternoon and evening I had been feeling very crampy and just not right so we called the OB who had us go straight to Labor and Delivery. This was a very scary experience as it is not somewhere you want to be at our stage! I was hooked up to tons of monitors and had some tests run to make sure it wasn't preterm labor. Fortunately, everything looks good but I still don't feel like myself so I'm taking it easy today and working from home (still waiting for a follow up call from my doc to let me know what I need to do or not do). I have to say that I work with the most amazing people who are concerned about me and our baby, not just the work ~ I am so lucky!

For all those who have been asking, here's a shot of my belly from Easter (the dress makes me look bigger than I am as the little guy is measuring small) . . .

Hope everyone had a Happy Easter!