This weekend in three words: Birthday, Bunny & Turkey

This weekend we attended a friend's birthday party, enjoyed some Easter activities and tried our hand at turkey hunting as a family. Wow, what a hodge-podge!


We eased into the weekend on Friday night by doing some mall browsing. We bought nothing except for this:

A giant pretzel. 

It was the healthiest thing I could find for him at the mall!

Jackson found himself in the 75% off rack. I'm just glad we found him!

Saturday it was off to a birthday party for a friend from Jackson's former daycare. And, true to past form, Jackson and Alexander didn't miss a beat and hung out like old friends. It's so fun to watch all the boys play well together and wear each other out!

Can you tell they are buddies?

With Easter fast approaching Jackson and I took advantage of Festival Foods' Easter fun day. The highlight...getting to see 'The Bunny' himself! Jackson was sure to tell him he wanted jelly beans in his basket. While we were there we bought supplies to make Easter nests. If you have never made these they are really easy and fun! Check out the recipe here.

The Easter Bunny!

Cookie decorating at Festival

Easter Bunny Nests!

Chris turkey hunted most of the day Saturday through cold, wind, rain and snow. I was impressed, there's no way I would have stuck that out. Sunday we ALL went out to stalk birds. Chris set up a nice blind complete with three chairs, binoculars for each of us and a warm blanket. Jackson had a BLAST and asked a million questions. Believe it or not, we actually had a Tom within site. Unfortunately, he was already paired up with a hen so we couldn't call him in. Oh well, the experience of it all as a family was awesome!

We wrapped up our hunting adventure at a scenic overlook eating a picnic lunch I surprised Chris and Jackson with. We picnicked in the truck because the 30 mph winds made 40 degrees feel like 16 degrees.

Glassing for turkeys

'Hunting' in comfort

Father and son walking to the blind together

The sign of a successful hunt...

Mother Nature wasn't cooperating Saturday or Sunday and I had an 11 mile run I had to get in so I did the ENTIRE 11 miles on the treadmill. For me, this was the perfect way to wrap up a GREAT weekend.

It was a thumbs up weekend for everyone.