Easter and Spring Break: Warning this is a long post

For Anderson's 1st Easter this year we went to Dothan to spend the night with our families. Anderson participated in his first ever Easter egg hunt...well, let me rephrase that. You see, my mom has always been the type of person who when she does something, she does it BIG! She wanted to have Anderson and his cousins a Easter egg hunt and for the babies, a squirt toy, car and ball hunt. When she told us this, we just rolled our eyes. I have to say though, that there is something about your little boy finding toys and Barbie sunglasses hidden in the brush that just got you just a little bit excited! My best friend from high school, Shelley and her kiddos stopped by to hunt eggs with us, they loved it!

Anderson also found this sippie cup in the brush, don't worry, my mom hid it there:)
He was more interested in biting his Easter basket than anything


Anderson's grandparents

Shelley, Anderson and me
Momma, Anderson and me

The day was great and Anderson had fun with his cousins and brought home a loot of squirt toys! Love you Nana!

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Easter morning, Adam, Anderson and me headed to Atlanta for our Spring Break. Our first stop was the Zoo Atlanta. We were more excited about Anderson riding on the carousel than he was...he looked like he could let out a yawn anytime. He loved the animals, and actually paid attention to them and got pretty excited and did his famous point when he saw them. His favorite..ummm.. and mine too were the panda bears, pretty cool!

Day 2: on Monday we headed to the Georgia Aquarium, which is btw, the largest aquarium in the world! Anderson LOVED it, do you hear me? LOVED IT!! Run, don't walk to take your kids to see this awesome place! He pointed at all of the fish and I could barely hold him he was so excited and squirmed so much. He kept saying "wat dat" and I know I said "fish" like one million times. Half way through the aquarium, Anderson needed a nap...bad...we had to leave and go let him take a nap in the parking garage in the car, don't worry it was cranked and we were in there too, you know I'm not that kind of mother! We went to my old friend(well she's not old, but you know what I mean)from high school, Lisa Poole Alexander's house and boy did we had a yummy supper and our kiddos played and we caught up, so FUN!! Thank you Lisa, we enjoyed it so much, also, Lisa check out Anderson's shoes in the following pics, he loves them! Thanks!

Doing his famous point at the fish

Lisa, Nolan, Nicholas, Anderson and me

Day 3: On Tuesday, we went to Stone Mountain, but most of their attractions for kids were closed so we rode the sky lift up Stone Mountain and back down and decided to try the Coke Museum and Atlanta Botanical Gardens-two words, delicious and awesome! The Coke Museum was neato and the coolest thing ever is that you get to taste Coke products from everywhere in the world, from Zimbabwe to Costa Rico to the U.S. and Anderson got to some of them too, although he made terrible faces. :) The Botanical Gardens were beautiful and Anderson would once again point and say "wat dat", that baby loves to be outside. I think he's going to grow up to be a park ranger. We ended the day by going to the Varsity, if you haven't been there, you should go. They have great hot dogs with chili and f.o.'s (frosted orange drink, which taste just like a creamsicle) Anderson LOVED the hot dog chili and the f.o. YUMMY!!!

Adam and Anderson on top of Stone Mt.
Anderson at the Atlanta Botanical Gardens

Enjoying his f.o. at the Varsity

Day 4: We went to Babyland General in Cleveland, GA, again, another cannot miss place. This is where Cabbage Patch Kids are made. They actually deliver(make) the babies right there and they announce it over the loud speaker and you can witness it and name the babies. We named the one was born while we were watching Molly Isabelle. We wanted to buy Anderson a little boy cabbage patch doll, but when we went to "adopt"/buy the doll, it was .....$$$$$ 199.00 for a DOLL, thanks, but no thanks, he got a mass produced c.p. doll instead of an original. We also went to Helen, GA which is neat, but kind of junky. We rode on the horse drawn carriage and Anderson loved that, he kept waving to everybody as we passed by! :)

We had such a great trip and were sad to come home, but we had a very special 1st birthday party coming up on Saturday the 18th and had to get ready!! Those pictures and a tearful letter to my little boy who is quickly growing up is soon to follow. Stay tuned folks...

Thanks for sticking with me to read this entire post, if you did!