Easter 2011

We had a very fun Easter Sunday. The day started with Easter baskets, of course. I love the buckets and liners the Easter Bunny used this year. I'm fairly certain he ordered them Classic Campbell. If I were the Easter Bunny I know that's where I would have gotten them! :)

 Makena was so excited to get a big chocolate bunny! The girls will be eating their bunnies for days!

Here is Megan with her new Rapunzel doll. Megan loves all things Tangled. Pardon the silly pj's. The shirt she is wearing is an old shirt that Phil wore when he was little. She usually pairs it with whatever pajama pants that are lying on top in the drawer. This time they just happened to be Christmas pajama pants! :)

  Megan lovin' all her Tangled goodies...

 Makena checking out her new Disney snow globe...

 And finally, Big E, finally decided to join us. We got him dressed and brought him downstairs to check out his Easter basket. Thanks to Aunt Carol for the kids' wonderful Easter outfits!

 Isn't he a little stud muffin? His sweet little suit has pinstripes in case you can't tell.

 Easter morning Risky Business style...

 The girls got these bunny teeth suckers in their baskets...

After the Easter basket fun, we got dressed and headed to church. There was a craft, Bible story and egg hunt during the Sunday school hour. The nice lady who told the story told the long version of the Easter story but the kids were all incredibly patient.  

 The Easter egg hunt was on the playground, how fun is that?

 This is the best family Easter pic we could get. Everett was just too interested in the commotion on the playground to look at the camera.

 I tried to get a group pic when we got home from church.  But Everett still wasn't very interested in having his picture taken.

 One of our friends at church said he thought Everett looked like a mobster in his suit. We had quite a few people stop and tell us how cute he was during the egg hunt. Of course we had to agree with them. :)

Popaw came to visit and have Easter lunch with us. We had a fairly nontraditional beef tenderloin with corn on the cob and loaded baked potatoes.

Everett wrestled Popaw for his glasses.

 After lunch, we changed into play clothes and went outside to hunt Easter eggs. I hid them for the girls a few times and then I let them take turns hiding them for each other. They really enjoyed that.

 The egg hunter had to sit in the rocking chair facing the wall while the eggs were being hidden.

 Makena would practically lead Megan straight to the eggs she had hidden.

 I took Makena and Megan to see the movie, Hop, while Everett was napping. They were really excited to see the movie. It was the perfect movie to watch on Easter Sunday since it's about the Easter Bunny!

 The weather was so nice on Sunday that when we came home from the movie we went outside to play some more. Everett had woken up from his nap so he came outside, too. He loves playing outside.

 Oh no he didn't! I had to go fish a pink egg shell out of Everett's mouth right after I took the following picture.

 Everett loves his little car and Makena really likes pushing him. Weee!

 Hope y'all had a Happy Easter, too!

Mall Fun & Neighborhood Easter Egg Hunt

I had a list of egg hunts and festivals in the area that we could have gone to this weekend. How is it then that we end up at the mall? The primary reason for going was to take Makena and Megan to Build A Bear. We promised Megan that when she was potty trained we would take her there and Makena would be able to get something, too. We also let the girls ride these big jumpy things while we were at the mall. For the life of me I can't remember what they're really called! Makena has asked to ride one of these at our past three mall visits. They both laughed uncontrollably for the first few minutes of the ride.

Look how high they went!

To quote Makena, "Mom! The next time we come to the mall, we have to ride the jumpy thing!"

Here are the girls with their Build A Bear bunnies.

Easter Bunny picture....

Later, Saturday afternoon, the kids and I headed to our neighborhood Easter egg hunt. We let Phil sneak off to play a round of golf with some friends. The kids got to dye eggs in the barn and got to nibble some sweet treats.

Here they are dying eggs with Miss Madison.

Here are the girls with one of Megan's preschool best friends, Maisie.

And they're off! There was a mad dash to find the eggs!

Remind me, what am I supposed to do with this thing?

Makena was on a rampage. Must...find...the...golden...egg. :)

Sweet Megan would stop to check the contents of the eggs before putting them in her basket. If she didn't like what was inside, she didn't put it in her basket. :)

Maybe the golden egg is over here in these bushes....

And then Makena started pouting because she couldn't find the golden egg. We nearly had to leave because she was having such a hard time because of the golden egg. Thank goodness she perked up!

The Easter bunny made a surprise trip to the egg hunt!

How wrong is it that I may like this Easter bunny picture better that the one at the mall. It's very true to life and real, don't you think?

And here we all are at the egg hunt! We missed having Phil there but he deserved some time away. Happy Easter everyone!

Tennis Clinic, Everett's Egg Hunt & Makena's Easter Party

I don't think I mention enough how much we love our new neighborhood. There are so many great families here. And there are plenty of kids here the same age as ours. The amenities are fantastic and they offer many different activities for adults and kids. This past Wednesday, I took the girls to a free tennis clinic in the neighborhood. They enjoy playing badminton and tennis in the driveway and were both really excited to go to the clinic. We pulled out our awesome gold tennis bags that Uncle Slade sent us.

Megan worked with Mr. Bill on her swing. 

 Makena's turn...

 Megan getting a little more help from Mr. Bill. She did a lot better with the foam balls. 

So cute! :)

I volunteered to hide Easter eggs for our preschool's egg hunt. Part of the reason I volunteered was because all three of the kids had their egg hunt on the same day. Makena and Megan really liked seeing me while I was outside hiding the eggs. But the part I enjoyed the most was seeing Everett come outside to hunt eggs. He only comes to preschool one morning a week and he got lucky because the Easter egg hunt happened to fall on the one day he comes. They usually never bring the babies outside to the playground so this was a really big treat for them. We scattered a few eggs on the playground but I told his teacher, Ms. Leslie, that we could have just put an egg out there for each of them and that would have been plenty. They were so interested in the grass and the mulch and all of the playground toys that they didn't care much about the eggs. But those babies were awfully cute toddling around out there! Everett has on khaki shorts and the blue polo shirt with stripes. That's his buddy, Sawyer, in the camouflage pants. Makena is good friends with his sister, Dree, so I'm sure we'll be seeing more of him.

 I thought Everett would probably lose interest in hunting eggs when he saw me so I hid behind a tree for the first few minutes of his egg hunt. :)

 They loaded all of the babies up in that big red stroller and brought them to the playground. The looked so cute in the stroller! I wish I had gotten a picture of them all in it.

 Dree's mom and I were responsible for the Easter party for Makena's class. Doughnuts are a big hit with this class so I picked up some Krispy Kremes with sprinkles and Capri Suns and Dree's mom brought some Peeps and carrots. We had dropped our party supplies off that morning but Makena really wanted us to come back for the party. I was a little afraid it wouldn't go well since Everett isn't always good at sitting still but it went okay. Megan was excited to sit with Makena's class and eat a doughnut, too. Big E is sitting in the corner behind Makena in the next picture.