Easter Trip to Minnesota

We had been planning on going to MN for Easter, but weren't sure about the dates due to our health problems and the ongoing drywall project. Friday morning, I made a stop at our favorite place lately, the Urgent Care. Turns out William and I have matching sinus infections! So, now all three of us are on antibiotics! Weeeeee! Just before noon on Friday, we left for MN with prescriptive medications in hand.

This was, by far, the worst trip with William ever. He cried/screamed on and off for close to 3 hours of the trip. Nothing could distract him. We planned the timing of the trip around his nap time (and trips to the Urgent Care). William apparently did not arrange his schedule around our trip. Yuck. We made it to MN in time for dinner at Valentino's. The pictures and some video from the trip at home are below!

Sledding on Easter? Only in Minnesota! Here we are sledding before easter on Friday.

We went down a couple of times on the hill Grandpa made for us!

Sledding on Saturday, too!

On Saturday, Aunt Megan came and we all colored eggs. Grandma thought it would be fun to have William hold some eggs. Guess what he did? At the end of the video, you'll also hear him say "Bang". Listen closely!

After the cracking...

Everyone coloring eggs (and William cracking them). The 2008 sign is because we can never figure out what year some of our pictures are from when are trying to sort them into albums (yes, we know that we could put them in albums more than just every 10 years - where is the challenge in that?)




Saturday night we had a family dinner with Grandma, Grandpa, Aunt Megan, Kaye and Scott. Despite the snow, Grandpa fired up his grill and we had steak! Yummy! Earlier in the day William poured an entire cup of water on himself, hence the outfit change. This is one of his favorite shirts because it has a "Brmmm, brmmmm" on the front of it. William was in heaven because Scott played cars with him for a long time! (Mama was in heaven because she didn't have to play cars!)


Easter morning, William was playing with his cars in the kitchen while I cleaned up our breakfast dishes when he found this! He knows that anything is a can is good and you need to say "Ahh!" after every drink. Here he is reaching in for a car and saying "Ahhh!"

He finally got one out of the box - "Ahhhh....!"

We all got dressed up in our Easter outfits. Grandma was watching William while I got dressed. He figured out where in the kitchen she keeps the treats!


William's first cookie - John's favorite: Duplex Cremes.

His reaction? Mmmmmmmm...


It was easy to get that cookie away from him!

Then we loaded up and went over to Grandpa Heidt's house to visit with William's cousins! Here they are "playing" together. Okay, they are all kind of looking at each other, but none of them are crying!


I was pretty impressed with how gentle and nice William was with the babies (aren't they getting big? They are so SO cute and so SO very sweet!) Here he is sharing his truck with Alex.

Alex playing with the fire truck while William watches.

And...that is enough sharing. Alex's turn was about 12 seconds. We'll have to keep working on the sharing!


After a nap, we watched some video of William (will share some soon, I promise!). William was captivated by himself on the big screen. Nothing could get his attention while he admired himself!

Looking good!

Most of the time, even the chair was too far away from the TV. But he fits perfectly into Aunt Megan's old chair!

The trip home was much smoother. William slept for close to 3 of the 6.5 hours. What a relief! We got back home in time for dinner on Monday evening and started cleaning up. Over the weekend, the dust in the air had more time to settle and we could finally clean! It had kind of bothered me to drive away from our house so very messy and dusty, but it is what needed to happen! But, boy was I happy to get things cleaned up again!