Easter 2014

I can't really decide if I like Easter being later or earlier in the year. When it's earlier it seems to sneak up on me, but when it's later it's like I almost forget about it and then BAM! Easter.  The upside to it being later is that :fingers crossed: the weather is better for things like Easter Egg Hunts.  This year we hit up two Easter egg hunts.  The first one is the annual one our neighborhood puts on.  It was great weather and the kids had fun.  It's especially nice for the younger ones since there aren't a ton of people.  The next weekend we headed to Ravenna for their hunt.  Rylee and Tenley went first and it wasn't so great.  Nothing like good ole Ravenna in the "no parents allowed" hunt and then a million parents scoop their kids up and start grabbing all the eggs from 3 and 4 year olds. Some things never change because the same crap happened when I was like 4 and hitting up this egg hunt.  Rylee freaked out upon them saying go and basically stood and cried.  Tenley could not have cared less and when I tried to encourage her to grab the eggs by putting one in her bag to show her how to do it, she promptly threw it back out.  Egg total: 1.  Morgan and Mackenzie's age group was next and there were a ton of kids and it was complete chaos.  Morgan ended up with one egg.  Not so successful during that hunt.

The night before Easter the girls decorated eggs for the Easter bunny.  It really boiled down to Morgan and Rylee decorating and Tenley making a mess. They seemed to enjoy themselves so that is all that matters.

We followed that up with a lovely Easter morning, followed by a wonderful Easter day at my parents house.  The girls loved their baskets! They each had a few toys in their baskets and all Tenley could see was candy.  She was not interested at all by any toys, because OMG! Chocolate!  Happy Easter Everyone!

5K

I ran my first race post-Beckett this past Saturday. It was a gorgeous day which was a nice bonus because you never know what you are going to get in April in Ohio. I will admit, I was a tad nervous because it had been about 18 months since I last ran a race.  I've been training for the CLE half in May and really wanted to get one race under my belt before then. I was pretty proud of myself! I ended up with my best "official" race time at 34:04.  The only thing I hate about actual races is the early morning start time.  I'm just not a person that works out in the morning, especially running.  It just doesn't work for me. I am not looking forward to getting up at like 4am for the CLE half marathon but what are you going to do?? Paul and Ashley also ran (Ashley's first official 5K) and did great! Bring on the half!!

Indians Home Opener! Wahoo!

Ahh.....one of, if not my most favorite day of the year! Baseball season is finally back and the Tribe is back in town. Once again the GPACKK headed up to Cleveland early on Friday to get a head start on the festivities. We stayed at the Aloft hotel, which is really nice and I got a good deal on Priceline for it. Turns out though when we got up to our room we had one king bed for six people. We called to try to change but apparently all the double rooms were booked. Let's just say two of us slept on a deflated air mattress and the other four slept uncomfortably in one bed. 

We headed downtown and made a stop at Panini's for some beer and food.  We had the cheesiest best pizza ever. At least it seemed like it at the moment. Yum. We headed down toward the stadium and just as we were about to enter we got news of the rain delay.  We were already there so we headed in anyway. That delay ended up being almost two hours and while we waited there was a downpour. Once it passed the game got started and since it was becoming later and the sun was going down, it got ridiculously cold.  I toughed it out until about the 5th inning but I needed some warmth.  We went across the street to the bar to finish watching the game.  After the game was over we stopped in at the casino for a bit before heading to our usual opening day dinner spot, Great Lakes Brewery. We had a super fantastic day and I'm already looking forward to next year! <---- Typical Clevelander huh?