Zoey gets a play house

In April Zoey went to a birthday party for sweet little Alex and while there she fell in love with this play house. It was so cute to see her play in it that I became obsessed with getting her a play house.

I talked to my mom and she decided to buy Zoey a play house as an early birthday/Christmas present. I found an amazing one at Costco and became obsessed with getting it for Zoey. LOL! Sadly, Costco didn't get the memo that I wanted this play house ASAP and when I went to get it they didn't have any in stock. I then proceeded to call them every day to see if they had any.

We arranged the weekend before Mother's Day to have Scott's dad come into town with his van in hopes of picking a play house up. Unfortunately, when I called that morning they said they didn't have any in stock. So we spent the afternoon visiting with Don and Connie and going to lunch. Don decided we should swing by to double check if they had one. I'm so glad we did. It was an emotional roller coaster for me because at first they didn't have one, then they did, then it was on hold for someone, and finally they let us have it.

We hauled the box home and started the process of putting it together. Zoey oversaw the construction. Now the website said it was easy assembly. Not so much. Look at all those pieces.

It took about six hours to put together, and at that point it still didn't have the finishing touches on it. When Scott's dad left that night the house was still missing the chimney, flower boxes, snack bench, and the additional roof piece. Zoey didn't care though. She was excited to play in her new house, which came with a working door bell. 

A few weeks later Scott was able to get the additional pieces put on the house and then on my day off I put some flowers in the window sill and Scott put the letters I bought on the front. Now Zoey's play house is complete ... at least until he decides to make some improvements to the inside. He's talking about adding some lighting, including a light switch. LOL!

Poe Family Easter Festivities

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This year was a pretty fun Easter. Zoey's still not quite old enough to have the Easter Bunny excitement, but she was able to get the hang of an Easter egg hunt ... mostly. We had quite a few different Easter related activities we did as a family this year, which makes me super happy.

Our Easter festivities kicked off with a fun filled Saturday at Aunt Phyl's house with Aunt Phyl, her grandchildren, Ava and Ella, Grammie, and Grandma and Grandpa Oswalt.

Checking out her basket from Aunt Phyl and Uncle Terry

New sippy, Gold Fish, and fruit chews. She was in heaven

A new book from Grandma

Learning about the fun of Easter grass

Playing with Grammie

She also got to plant some flowers and dye some Easter eggs.

By far the thing she enjoyed the most was the Easter egg hunt. At first she wasn't too sure, in part due to the fact that at that time she still wasn't a fan of grass, but she quickly got the hang of it. 

 The next item on the Poe Family Easter agenda was a trip to the zoo for their Easter celebration. It didn't turn out quite like I hoped it will. Hopefully, it will be better as she gets older because I would really like to make it a Easter tradition. She was just a fussy butt for most of the time and didn't want to get out of the stroller. She refused to sit with the Easter Bunny, so I didn't get any bunny pic this year. 

 Since Scott had to work Easter day, we arranged for the Easter Bunny to come a day early. Zoey was excited to see her new lego/drawing table, legos, Little People car, personalized alphabet book, and sun glasses. But I think she was by far most excited by the Buzz ball and crazy straw cup she got. 

Later that afternoon, we took Zoey over to Grammy's apartment and she had a mini Easter egg hunt there.

That evening, we made our traditional bunny cake

Sunday morning we woke up and Zoey and I went to church. She was a bit of a stink butt (she ripped the hymnal), so we ended up leaving part way through.

I thought it was cute until she ripped it

Later that afternoon, Zoey and I went over the Aunt Sherry's for a Poe gathering (Scott was still at work). Zoey had a great time playing with her cousin Jack and her grandpa.

Zoey loved her Easter basket filled with Gold Fish and Raisins