Easter Fun...Mostly

This Easter was eventful for sure. With RSV season coming to an end, we were excited to get Lainey out and about with friends and family this month. She had her "coming out" party at the beginning of the week with an Easter party at a friend's house with all of her church friends...of course, she doesn't know any of them since she doesn't go to church, but she was still so excited to be surrounded by all the fun!

We then went to visit our family in OK, where we always have so much fun, playing out in the country at Nonnie's and NaNa's with Alex, T, Angel and Justin...but we can never escape Lainey's darn asthma when visiting. The days leading up to Easter we worked at getting the asthma under control, when first Natalie caught a little virus with a slight fever and cough. She kicked it in a day, the hoss, but then Lainey and Rhett got in on the action. They didn't handle it as well. Lainey's asthma episode set her up for something worse. Both babies ended up with a fever of over 103, wet coughs, and trips (yes, plural) to the ER and urgent care centers with dehydration and respiratory distress...and we were out of town, away from our doctors and hospitals, for most of the fun!

The exciting thing is, we heard this is going around! Why does this excite us?? Because, even NORMAL kids are getting this high fever and wet cough (this is how Lainey used to respond to every little germ that she came in contact with and it often times landed us in the hospital for days). So our Lainey Bug IS a normal kid now it seems!!! She just responded to this virus a little more dramatically because of her battle with asthma at the same time. The things we get excited about around here:)

On to pictures...what a great time we had with our family and friends!

My sweet baby girl, so excited to go go go!

Cousins at the Easter party
KK, cutie pieThe Branch Gang

Love on me all you want. You will not get my eggs!

Getting ready to hunt eggs in OK...or eat grass, whatever.

Cricket, he's got his eye on you...no funny business

Uncle Justin with the kiddos-getting ready to start the hunt

Good times with NaNa

YESSSSS! Victory.

Trying to peel and eat on the go...
SCORE!
(and hello asthma eyes)
More action shots...

QUICK! Noone's looking...get in my mouth grass!

Love this pic Happy Campers

Flying a kite at NaNa and PaPa's

Pink looks good on you Buddy

The Animal Whisperer-another action shot

Mommy doesn't go near Willard! Just looking at this freaks me out

And this is us in our Easter outfits...

We LOVE talking to Pops on the computer:)

HAPPY EASTER POPS!

Rhett's turn to take a hit...

Thankfully, Rhett's respiratory issues were MILD!! We've never seen 'mild' respiratory issues so, yes, we were excited about this report too:) Thank you, Jesus!