Easter 2008

Saturday

Wow, what a weekend it has been! Our little family started out Saturday morning with my Pop, Abraham, to an Easter Extravaganza at Micke Grove Park. Pop presented Colten with an Easter basket full of cars! He loved it! We had such a great time, Colten got an egg painted on his face, Matt (not so much Colten) liked petting the bunnies,

we all toured the San Joaquin County Crime Scene bus, which was quite interesting and informative, Colten played on the playground while we waited for the Egg Hunt to start,

then , along with 250 other children under age 5, we ran like Pamplonian bulls out into a field to snatch up eggs as fast as we could. Colten, with mommy and daddys help *wink*, retrieved about a dozen plastic eggs. We weren't lucky enough to get one with a special ticket in it (you could win a giant easter basket or other gifts) but we were satisfied just the same.

Sunday
Pop and I began the glorious Easter morning with Mass at St. Lukes. We weren't able to find a sitter at 7am on Easter morning so Matt stayed home with Colten. After Mass we took flowers to my grandma Frances' gravesite then went to breakfast. At noon, Matt, Colten and I headed over to Uncle Tom and Aunt Peggy's house for lunch and another egg hunt! We were so happy to see Matts cousins Tom, Leesa, and Ryan, Mike, Kelli, Finn and Aiden, Tim, Barbie and Sean, his brother Nick and girlfriend Christina, and of course, Matts mom, Barbara and Uncle Tom and Aunt Peggy!

Grandma Barbara, Colten and Aunt Peggy

Aiden, Finn and Ryan, playing baseball, kids against adults

Uncle Nick shows Colten how to make bubbles

Q. What do you do when a toddler runs?

A. You run after him!

Grandma Barbara chasing Colten

We had such a wonderful time. We ate fabulous food and Colten found loads of hidden eggs with mommy helping only a little bit. All in all it was a marvelous Easter weekend and we wish you all a blessed spring season.

Our New Blog. . .

Welcome to Matt, Kelly and Colten Willards new blog!

We are super excited to let everyone see how gigantic Colten is getting day by day. Especially those to live far away and we don't get to see as often as we would like to.

Colten turned 18 months on March 1st and is really big and super smart. He says lots of words including, Dada, Mama, Boo (nickname for our cat, Bella) Bath, Ball, Pop (my grandpa Abraham), Bye bye, Car, he nods and shakes his head to answer questions and signs truck, train, slide, fan, light, moon, stars, more, please, thank-you, I'm sorry, dog, etc. Colten loves to read (or really, have books read to him), play with his Little People, go to the park and for walks and loves to watch cartoon movies.

Today Grandma Barbara took us out to lunch at Cancun (yum-o!) and from there we went to the park at Weber Point. It was totally spontaneous so we didn't bring our cameras (pooh!) but Colten had a blast. He likes eating sand for some reason but this park has bark and foam so it was 'safe'. The weather today was perfect in my view, about 65 I think, and cloudy but the sun was peeking through so it was fabulous. After the park, we headed to the Children's Museum of Stockton where, quite frankly, we all had fun! That is such a cool place, I wish it was a little bit bigger. The last time I took Colten he was afraid to go in the Firetruck, Police Car, Helicoptor, Ambulance and Bus (these were actual vehicles that had been retired and modified to be safe for kids to play in), but this time he did well. He slept for about 2 1/2 hours when we got home!

Bookmark us and checkback soon for updates on what we're up to and how big Colten is getting!