Hippity, Hoppity Easter Day!

Prepare yourselves for a big one.  I'm going to smoosh all of our Easter pictures into one big post.  

Since we had already gotten pictures with the Easter bunny taken, the next step was to dye Easter eggs.  This year I let Caden dye them all by himself.  

After they dried he covered them with Spiderman stickers

Our finished products... 

I guess the day before Easter is also known as Easter Egg Hunt Day.  We started by going down to Golden for the ginormous hunt. It was a gorgeous Easter weekend!

 Caden saw lots of people he knew, including his friend Bergen,

and the Easter Bunny

Asher was not about to hug EB, but he did give him a fist bump

At last year's hunt, Ashy slept in his car seat ('cause he was about 3 weeks old!).  This year he got to participate and LOVED it!

It's hard to believe that this sweet face was diagnosed with a raging ear infection and put on antibiotics the day before this

We got to the park a few minutes early because they start right on time and it is a madhouse!  The eggs were all ready for the 0-3 year olds.

At 10:00 on the dot the hunt started and Caden was off!

He stopped to shake each egg he picked up.  When I asked him why he did that he said, "I was listening for jelly beans."

Asher had a much more subdued hunt and needed a little help getting his eggs in his basket.

After the hunt was over (at 10:01) we surveyed the loot

and then dumped out the candy and recycled the plastic eggs

Then we went to a cookie decorating party at a hotel in town. 

Good cooking, Buddy!

That evening we went to another hunt at a golf course nearby.  Same show, but this time kids ate for free in the clubhouse afterwards!

The next day was officially Easter!  The Easter Bunny left baskets for our boys even though someone (ahem, me) forgot to leave snacks for him.  Oops!

Easter eggs, Candy Land, and books - oh my!

Caden's favorite part was the money

He very diligently counted every coin that went into his piggy bank

We cleaned ourselves up a teensy bit and went to church to celebrate the real reason for Easter.

And then we had another egg hunt (that's three in two days if you've lost count!)

By this point Ashy was all done with being awake.  I tried to let him hunt too, but he very politely (or not so much) said no thank you. Nap please.

After church Nana, Grandpa, Gram, DeeDee, and Kirk all came over to our house to eat, fly kites

eat some more, and play with all of the boys' new stuff

Poor Caden!  Asher kept taking all of the stuff out of his basket and putting it in his own.  Caden is very sweetly saying, "No, no Ashy.  That's my candy!"

 Ashy didn't much care.

Whew!  Happy Easter from these two cuties - and in case you're wondering, chicks really do dig them!

Best Girls' Trip EVER!

It's official.  Emily and I have mastered the art of the girls' weekend.  We have been to NYC, the Ritz Carlton in Denver, a spa weekend, and now...

Beverly Hills!!!

We left really early on Sunday morning.

We arrived in BH in time to check into our hotel

and do a little tanning (no pictures of that, you're welcome!) before we headed off to dinner at STK.

And just for the record, that was probably the best steak I have ever had.  Ever!!

Monday morning we did our best to cram in as much sightseeing and self-picture taking as possible.

Early that afternoon we headed over to CBS studios for the real reason of our trip - to see a live taping of Dancing with the Stars!!

Emily has some friends that work on post-production at DWTS and they were able to get us some coveted seats.  We waited for rehearsals to end in the post-production bungalows. While we were waiting, we watched a live feed of the rehearsals.  When the camera man cut to the fake judges that were there to practice the timing, we saw our names on chairs right behind the judges!!  We weren't going to be in the rafters, we were going to be sitting right behind the judges table!  O.M.G!!!  

After rehearsals, we were escorted to the VIP line (excuuuuuse, me!) and then to our seats.

We wondered if anyone would be able to spot us on TV

They did!  That's a picture of our TV that JZ took for me.  Do you see us right behind Len and Bruno?!?  Awesome!!!

After the taping, we snuck onto the floor for a super quick picture to prove we were there!

I even got my picture taken with the cast of Vanderpump Rules!

We even got a backstage tour of CBS studios and saw where The Price is Right is filmed.

That evening we had dinner next to Martin Short and Steve Martin.  No big deal...happens all the time!

Then, Tuesday morning is was time to head back to reality.  It's a good thing my boys were happy to see me or else I would have been on the next plan back to paradise!