on wednesday night, i told matt that i wished he had thursday AND friday off, not just friday.
and then, all of sudden, he decided to stay home both days!
aren't i spoiled?
our 3 day weekend turned into a 4 day weekend. and it was awesome.
i love spending my days with matt, and normal weekends just never seem long enough.
with all the errands that need to be run on saturdays, and church commitments on sundays, weekends seem to fly by.
i am constantly trying to think up some wicked business idea that matt and i could do together, so we could be together everyday.
but i'm yet to think of something.
plus, i'm not sure matt would be on board with spending allll his time with little ol' me!
anyways, this is how our long weekend went:
on thursday, we went to an easter petting zoo.
it was at a mall that i didn't even know existed and, once i got these, i quickly realized why.
it was one nasty little mall with all sorts of interesting people perusing through it.
but even though the mall was somewhere i would never *ever* venture again, the petting zoo was super cute.
we saw baby chicks, kids, lambs, bunnies, and a grouchy piglet.
there is something about a baby goat that makes matt and i want to own one. (not that we ever would!)
but if there was a farmer who wanted to trade our chihuahua for a baby goat for a couple weeks, we would totally be on board.
after the petting zoo, we got milkshakes.
on friday, we had the annual leavitt family easter egg roll and easter dinner.
every year, we all meet at matt's parent's house with all the easter eggs we have decorated, we walk to a nearby hill in fish creek park, and we roll our eggs down.
in the end, there are dozens and dozens of broken eggs scattered on the hill.
all the dad's took things to another level when they starting competing to see who could throw an egg the most accurately to a sewer drain way at the bottom of the hill (where lots of the kids were playing and where a bike path passes by).
no one got any hard boiled eggs to the head, but there were a couple close calls.
the dad's also all had a foot race up and down a large hill. matt won.
i was totally not expecting matt to win (seeing as how i honestly can't think of the last time he exercised!) but somehow, he pulled it off.
as for easter dinner? it was tasty. and so was the ridiculously large buffet of desserts.
as our contribution to the easter events, we made this adorable rice krispie carrots:
a while pile of them:
and i think they turned out really cute :)
on saturday, we woke up to a big surprise.. the easter bunny had hidden candy all over our house!
we had fun watching the boys excitedly collect the candies.
we don't have a lot of great hiding spots in our main floor, but it didn't seem to matter because out boys aren't super good lookers!
they were the most excited about the enormous kinder eggs they got.
i found those at the store a couple weeks ago and had to buy them.
our boys love kinder surprises, and ask to get them every time we are standing in a checkout at a store, so i knew they would be pretty thrilled with those huge ones.
the toys inside were basically just as crappy, just bigger. but i figured that would be the case!
after the egg hunt, we watched the morning session of general conference and then spent the afternoon at the mall.
which, by the way, was a terrible idea! it was so busy.
but we stopped by 'cookies by george' and that seemed to make all the crowds worth it.
matt watched priesthood session at his brother's house that night with all the men in the family and some friends.
and, while he was gone, i started making some cinnamon rolls to eat while watching conference the next morning.
on sunday, we ate the rolls while watching the morning session.
not to brag, but they were pretty delicious.
conference was great - every year i think i love it more.
i will for sure need to go back and read the talks again (especially the 2 sessions-worth of talks i never ever heard a first time) but, for now, i think elder holland stole the show. his talk was my favorite in that sunday session.
elder holland has always been one of my favorites (along with bendar, uchtdorf, and, of course, monson) so i wasn't surprised that what he said was so special to me.
in the afternoon, we snuck away to elbow falls to get outside and enjoy some fresh air.
elbow falls is where matt proposed to me. *awwww*
sadly, the falls were destroyed pretty good in the alberta flood 2 summers ago, and that place doesn't look anything like it use to.
it's crazy how powerful water can be.
it was still nice to go out there, though...
even if it was cold and snowy.
yep, snowy.
thankfully, calgary didn't get nearly as much snow as elbow falls.
but still, while everyone else seems to be posting pictures of their kids hunting for easter eggs in tall, green grass, we are up here dealing with snow.
still.
i. am. so. sick. of. winter.
thank goodness we don't plan on being here that long.
my brain honestly feels like it is going to explode if i wake up to one more snow storm, let alone if i had to go through a life time of long winters.
i try to keep a positive attitude because being back in calgary has been a blessing in lots of ways - even more then we anticipated when we made the decision to return. it truly has.
but i still look forward to our next adventure.. with much anticipation.
