Apr 7: Happy Easter

This past week has been a very busy one for the Johnson's; and suddenly, I cannot think of anything to say about it!!  Ha, ha.  Let me see if I can reconstruct the week.  We celebrated Easter this past weekend with lots of friends at the annual Hilliard & Bergherm Easter Egg Hunt.  This year, Erik was able to walk around and collect eggs with only minimal directions. He also took pictures with the Easter Bunny that always appeared at the party.  A good friend of ours was inside the Easter Bunny costume and he told us that he barely escaped with his life when the older boys decided to try to jump the Easter Bunny!  There's a funny story about the 2nd picture below of Kent & Erik next to the Happy Easter sign.  While I was taking the picture, a friend was standing next to me so that he could take a picture with me in it with Kent & Erik.  However, as soon as I told Kent that I got a good picture, he stood up and walked away!!  He clearly didn't hear the offer from our friend!

The Easter Bunny and his posse - Erik is trying to figure it out.

Johnson Guys 

And out go all the eggs!

I love the expression on his face in this picture!

In a hurry to somewhere

Erik's daycare was closed on Monday & Tuesday for Passover and unfortunately, it is month-end close at work, so it is a very busy time to Kent and I.  Fortunately, a recently retired friend of ours was able to watch Erik for both days!  He had a great time showing her around the house and taking her from one toy to another.  She said he was a very easy little boy to watch and he was on his best behavior.  What a relief - I'm always worried how he is going to act when we leave him with someone new!  He fussed a little bit the first morning as I was leaving, but the next day, he walked me to the door and waved bye-bye!  What a funny kid!

My birthday was on Thursday this past week and so we had a little celebratory supper at home after work.  Kent picked up supper from Cheesecake Factory, including chocolate cake for dessert.  It was delicious - I've been craving chocolate cake for a few weeks, but nothing was quite right until that Cheesecake Factory cake!  We celebrated more birthdays (with more Cheesecake chocolate cake) on Friday evening with the Cochran's, Deininger's and Zbaraschuk's - April is a big birthday month for our group - with Kelli, Kent, Zachary, Kaleb and Luke all having birthdays this month.  I forgot to take any pictures at that function.  We ended the week with another birthday party today (Sunday) hosted by our friends, the Fuentes, for both their daughters.  Their birthdays are about 5-6 weeks apart, so they hosted a joint party in the middle of their birthdays to celebrate.  I'll write more about that party & upload some pictures next week.

To end this post, I've included a few pictures of Erik and I that were taken this past week.  Since I'm usually behind the camera, these photos are rare!

Erik & I after church - couldn't get him to sit still or look at the camera!

Erik & I on my birthday.  He's all ready for bed and I'm anticipating the chocolate cake!