Easter

We had such a good time celebrating Easter this year. Grace was really in to Easter this year and I think she really understands what Easter is all about. 

On Thursday we colored eggs.

 On Friday we made Easter cupcakes (didn't take a picture. Oops!)

On Saturday I took Grace to the egg hunt on post. She has never been to a big egg hunt before so this was something new for her.

She had so much fun! We didn't count her eggs but I think she found about 10. It went pretty fast since there were so many kids there. I think most kids got a basket full though. Out of the baskets I saw Grace probably had the least.

 

 She had fun going through her eggs on the way home!

Sunday morning Grace woke up to see what was in her Easter basket. The night before after she had gone to bed Dustin went outside. She heard the door and told me "Oh, I think the Easter bunny is at my house!"

Olivia loved her Easter basket too! And, yes, that would be her Christmas pj's she is wearing :)

They each got a dollar coin and that was Olivia's favorite thing! 

And then it was time to get dressed up in their new dresses for church!

Don't they look so beautiful?

After church we had lunch at my parents and an egg hunt. Both girls got quite a bit of money and candy in their eggs. Even though Olivia found the fewer eggs than her sister and cousin she ended up with the most money. We took Grace to Wal-Mart to buy the fairies she had been wanting for a month. She had been waiting to have enough of her own money to buy them.

We had another egg hunt that evening with more family. My Grandpa had some beanie babies and eggs and money and candy. Grace found a "golden egg" and won the BIG chocolate bunny! Grace also found 44 eggs! And Olivia won the prize for the least amount of money and got an extra $5.

Easter

We had a wonderful Easter despite the rain. Our plan was to go to Phil and Jacquelyn's for breakfast and then color eggs and let Grace hunt eggs in their backyard. Since it was raining most of the day we hid the eggs inside instead! Grace did a great job finding all of the 66 eggs. I think she only left one behind!

That afternoon we headed to church for an Easter celebration. They grilled ribs, chicken, burgers and hot dogs and there was lots of other food and desserts. They even had an indoor Easter egg hunt for the kids. We didn't know they were going to be doing that and left the camera in the car and didn't have time to get it until after the egg hunt was over. Dustin barely made it with Grace's basket in time. After the egg hunt one of the ladies told the Easter story to all of the kids using Easter eggs. She had numbered the eggs and then passed them out and asked the kids to open them one at a time. Each egg had something to remind us about the Easter story.

This year was so much more fun since Grace was actually able to hunt the eggs herself. Even with the rain we had a great day!

{Looks like the Easter Bunny came!}

{Lots of candy}

{checking out her basket}

{New beach toys}

{Oooh... CHOCOLATE!}

{the cupcakes I made... copied off of Kelly and Maggie!}

{dying eggs}

{So messy!}

{pretty eggs}

{being goofy}

{hunting for eggs}

{prize egg!}

{Another prize egg!}

{All of her eggs}

{Grace started playing in the cooler and before long there were about 6 other kids playing with her!}

Happy Easter!

Tomorrow is Easter and it looks as if we are going to have a busy day. We are having breakfast at a friends house in the morning. After breakfast we are going to hide some eggs for Grace and then we are going to dye our own eggs! Sometime in there we will have to put Grace down for a nap (I have the pack-n-play ready to go) so she will be ready for a church BBQ in the afternoon.

This evening we went to another friends house for steak and potatoes. I spent a good portion of the morning in the kitchen baking all sorts of yummy things for the different things we have going on. I made cookies and cupcakes for today and cookies and puppy chow for the church BBQ. The cupcakes I made turned out really cute but I don't have a picture since the cameras are in the car. Maybe I will take a picture of the two I have saved for the friends we are visiting tomorrow. I copied Maggie's cupcakes that she brought over yesterday for us - green coconut for grass and jelly beans as eggs!

Tonight it was a little late when we were putting Grace to bed but we decided to go ahead and read her a bedtime story. I thought it was only fitting to read the Easter Story to her since tomorrow is Easter. On every page she would point to the picture of Jesus and say "Jesus"

And now I am going to share this picture with you. It only took me close to an hour to get this on here. I lost the CD for the printer/scanner so I had to find a download for the driver then figure out how to get the photo into a format that blogger would recognize. That took uploading it to facebook and then saving it from there. Hopefully I find an easier way the next time I need to scan something. And the reason it had to be scanned was we were in the BX and Grace surprised us by actually sitting on the Easter Bunny's lap! We just decided we would walk by to see what she would do expecting to just wave and say hi since the weekend before she cried when the Easter Bunny was walking down the aisle she was on. I think the fact that he had candy might have played a role in convincing her that he wasn't so bad. She even clapped her hands and waved to us! And we didn't have our camera so the only picture we got was the one they printed off for us there.

Sorry for the bad quality but this is the best I can do.

Eggs and Bunnies

Today we took Grace to see the Easter bunny and then we did a little shopping and found a sand bucket and a few other sand toys. We got a little Easter candy for Grace to try but that won't happen until tomorrow. We are going to make some egg shaped peanut butter cookies for Easter too! This evening we had an Easter egg hunt and I think Grace did pretty well. She got LOTS of candy (she is going to have to have a little help eating it all!!) and she ended up with $23.15!!! We were discussing who had more fun hunting the eggs and opening them up to find out what is inside... I think maybe the adults :-) I wonder what the Easter Bunny will leave tonight??

Thanks Grandma for all of the eggs!!!

We saw the Easter Bunny!

Fun and colorful eggs

The eggs in the clover patch

The eggs in the shade

Ready to find eggs!

Prize Egg!!!!

Like Father, Like Daughter

Finding eggs with Daddy

Basket full of eggs!

Opening the eggs - this one was her favorite!

The Loot - Lots of candy, $23.15, Easter basket, and empty eggs!