You had some fun for the weekend…

Friday was nice. Ryan had the day off and I was lucky enough to get home a bit early. He was ready to get out of the house so we went up to Cracker Barrel next to Grapevine Mills. Their biscuits are awesome! Afterward, we were so full, we decided to walk around the mall a bit. I found some Merrell water shoes to wear in Hawaii at Sun and Ski. We both could spend a lot of money in that store. But, we left with only shoes and headed off around the mall. We stopped at the Wilson’s Leather Outlet to look at some purses they had on sale. Ryan’s comment, “Dayna, seeing that you have spent $10 or less total since we’ve been married on purses, I think you should find a better one.” So in we went. Found a $19.99 purse that suits me fine. Next to the purse table was a clearance rack of exceptionally nice coats. 75% off the original price and an additional 30% off the sale price. I found a really nice black jacket, fitted, comes down to my knees, buttons up the front is perfect for work. Ryan found a chocolate brown leather Calvin Klein jacket that he got for 70% off them 30% off of the sale price. So needless to say, we should be warm and stylish next fall :o) We kept moseying around. Got to the Ann Taylor Loft (which I love), and I about just walked past. But, the 50% off sign lured us in…not me, Ryan was the one that instigated it. He found an outfit on the clearance rack he liked for me, so without trying it on, got the dress, the jacket and the shoes and went to the register. The clerk was a little over friendly, but she did give us each a bottled water. Brilliant! It was exactly what we both needed. Both of us finished the water quite quickly, so she gave us another bottle. It was awesome. Both of us were extremely impressed with the service there. So here’s my little plug for them. Go shop at the Ann Taylor Loft at Grapevine Mills.
Saturday we went to Quinton’s soccer game, then I dropped off Ryan and went to run errands. Along the way saw some gorgeous wildflowers. My favorites were the red poppies just north of 635 along southbound 75. A brilliant beautiful red. One of my errands was to stop in at Sprinkles for some cupcakes. I’ve been craving their strawberry cupcake ever since I finished the last bite of the one I had there almost six months ago. I got three strawberry and three peanut butter chocolate. Now I also had some groceries in the car so the seats were full. There was no way I was going to put the cupcakes on the floor either…so the box of cupcakes rode home in my lap. I felt like an idiot driving like Greg and Marsha on the Brady Bunch on their little driving course (if you missed the episode, they had to do an obstacle course and not knock over an egg sitting on a cone as they parked). I think I drove 30 on Northwest Highway most of the way home. Oh well…the cupcakes did make it home safely after all. Saturday night we kept the boys for Trisha and Matt while they went to a concert. Mom came over and helped us color Easter eggs. Thank goodness too. Lots of little fingers were blue and green. Quinton and I text messaged the Easter Bunny several times. Asked him if he liked strawberry milk, chocolate milk or regular milk. He in fact likes strawberry milk! Who knew! And Mathis was thoughtful enough to put out some ranch dressing for the Easter bunny to have with his carrots too. All were in bed by 9:45!
Sunday morning we had planned on going to the 7:00 First United Methodist Grapevine Sunrise Service at the Grapevine Botanical Gardens. Seeing that when we woke up to shower and get ready it was POURING down rain, we decided to attend our normal 10:10 service. I love Easter. My favorite holiday by far. The songs we sing, the joy in the air, I just love it. There was special music yesterday that proved to be my favorite part of my day too. I wish I could remember the name of the song, but it was beautiful. Beautiful words, beautifully performed, just gave me chills! And talk about packed. Took us ten minutes or more just to pull out of our parking space afterward! Then we picked up Larry and Rita and headed to Trisha’s for Easter lunch and the Eggdiana Jones hunt. For those of you who haven’t heard, Trisha wanted to do something different this year. Instead of doing a traditional egg hunt, she made it into a scavenger hunt. Each child was given directions written out on cigar paper (looked very Indiana Jones authentic). They first had to find a yellow egg, in the yellow egg were directions on what color egg to find next, etc. The verbiage on each clue wasn’t just, go find a blue egg. She had made it creative and thoughtful. Poetic! Then, the final egg had a clue for them to go inside and find the “vessel of wonder” with their name on it. She had bought each of them water bottles put filled with candy, seeds for flowers, and other fun stuff. It went off perfectly! All the kids seemed to really have fun and it was something even the older kids had to work to figure it out. Overall such a wonderful day with family and friends. Let’s just hope the energy holds up for the week!