easter travels (better late than never!)

thanks to the humble isd giving april 1 and 2 as days off, we took a 4-day trip to alabama!

first stop (after several delays at the airport), tuscaloosa. i was able to meet with my advisor/mentor and determine a very tight but doable schedule towards graduating in may! *quick disclaimer* the lateness of this blog post and updating the 365 are due to all of my time and work that MUST be dedicated to finishing research work before my deadline.**

tuscaloosa also included a trip to city cafe for lunch! hooray! thank you, caitlin, for enjoying such a wonderful meal with me and taking some time out of your day (aka skipping class) to catch up. we were so thankful to stay the night with adam and coriell, but sadly, i never even saw them due to our late arrival and my meetings. i promise that won't happen the next time i'm in town, guys! lee, however, got to go to lunch with adam and coffee with ben lee, visit his old school, and do a little golf shopping while we were town.

after these whopping 11.5 hours in tuscaloosa, we headed to prattville. our time in prattville was filled with awesome home-cooked meals, shopping, movies, golf for the guys, awesome pre-easter lunch & egg hunt at maw's house, and a great (but quick) Easter sunday with the family. i even achieved the perfect Easter family picture!

check out my wonderful grandmother and the awesome spread of food we had for "Easter lunch"...
this is the best one i got of hunter and rachel. the boys were not cooperating with taking pictures...
...as you can see, ours was no easy matter either. there were many, many more besides this one until we got the good one below

rachel was the winner of the egg hunt. she found a whopping 15 eggs (second and third place for about 8 and 9 a piece) and two of the three prize eggs!
we took a golf-cart ride through the field and found this little friend!
here it is, the awesome first and only try, Easter family picture!
yay for family...we can't wait for the beach this summer!!!