March Madness & Easter Eggs

This year, ISU had a pretty decent shot at getting into the NCAA tournament, so my mom, Chad, Bradyn and I decided to go down to St. Louis for the MVC tournament and watch our Redbirds for the weekend.

It was a fun, basketball filled weekend. We also took Bradyn down to see the Arch and let him run around the park a little bit. Standing next to the arch really dwarfed him. Man, I forgot just how big it is. ISU ended up losing and didn’t make it into the tournament, but that didn’t stop us from watching the rest of the teams battle it out.

As usual, we filled out our brackets (even Bradyn filled one out), took a couple days off work to watch the first round, and even made our way to Vegas for the Final Four! That just so happened to be because Chad was out there for a business trip & I decided as long as one ticket was paid for, I’d meet him out there for the weekend. While we were out there we stumbled upon some Country Music Awards and saw all the country stars go through their red carpet walk before the show. We aren’t really country music fans, and didn’t know all of them, but I did end up getting Taylor Swift’s autograph. I ended up giving it to a couple behind us who had a 7 year old daughter. I knew she would appreciate it much more than I did. It was a gift for her birthday and they emailed me and thanked me again and said she absolutely loved it and they were very grateful. Always fun to make someone smile!

Easter was tons of fun this year! This was our first year of actually playing Easter Bunny. Bradyn LOVED coloring Easter Eggs and counting them when he was done. My favorite memory from this easter was when we were coloring Easter Eggs. Bradyn had the little wire thingie in his hand waiting to pull the eggs out of the dye and he said, “Stop Sign!”. It took me a second to figure out what he was talking about, but sure enough, the little wire thingie was an octogon and he was calling it a stop sign! That’s our little smarty pants! How he knew that I don’t know. We also had an Easter Egg Hunt outside at my mom’s and he had a blast with cousin Kyleah trying to find the plastic eggs. “Another one, and Another one!” Can’t wait to continue the Easter Traditions for years to come.