Easter Weekend

This past weekend we took a little road trip through Indiana and Ohio for Easter. One of my sweet friends from college, Melissa, got married in Columbus so we drove there for their wedding. However, to break up the trip (and to visit friends :) we stopped by Luke and Brittany's and stayed at their place and visited with them Friday and Saturday. In typical Dan fashion, he was up until 4am furiously writing a paper for his LAST on line class at Trinity Friday night (woo hoo!). Although he was tired, we are both happy he is done with classes and just has his capstone left :)

Then, we left their place and drove to Columbus. Since I left lights on in our car overnight we had to jump it which got us started on our little road trip to Ohio a little later than we planned. In typical Cinadr fashion, ended up arriving about 15 minutes late to the wedding. At this point we have just embraced our lateness to big, important events that you really shouldn't be late to :) Thankfully, we slipped in the back and fed Jake about 50 puffs to keep him quiet and he did really well and the wedding photographer even snapped a cute picture of him smiling at her from the church pews.

We had SUCH a great time at the wedding! We got to catch up with so many friends from Miami which was wonderful. And let's be honest, Jake wore his first tie and it was super cute. While I was at H&M looking for an outfit for my sister in laws' sister's baby girl (did you follow that?!) of course I stopped by the boy section. I spotted this adorable button up shirt with an orange tie. Even though the size was for 1.5 years to 2 years (and Jake is 10 months) I bought it and hoped it wouldn't look too ridiculous on him. Although it was big, we still kept him in it :) He will just git a lot of use out of it the next year and a half!

We hoped to walk around downtown Columbus the next morning and find a cute place to have brunch, however it was freezing and raining. So, we headed to Starbucks to treat ourselves to a drink and they were closed since it was Easter. I was bummed but glad they gave their workers the day off :) Naturally McDonald's is always open so we stopped there for breakfast on our way back to Indiana. Not the cute, downtown brunch we were hoping to experience but such is life right? Then, on our way home we stopped by my brother's place in West Lafayette and hung out with his in laws for Easter. They did a little Easter egg hunt (Holly's sister has a little boy and a new baby girl) so it was at their house and it turned out to be such a beautiful day. It's been so cold and it was the first time Jake experienced grass. He was a little confused at first but very quickly warmed up to it :) Then, we headed back to Chicago. It was a busy, full weekend but we definitely had fun!

Yes that is a baby cardigan. I just can't help myself.

This is what Jake did during most of the Easter egg hunt.

An attempt at a family shot. The eggs were much more interesting to Jake.

Uncle Jon encouraging Jake to start walking. Mom and Dad haven't really pushed too much to start walking.. you just take your good old time Jake. I can keep up with you better when you crawl :)