Easter!

He is RISEN!

Oh, how I love Easter. No, not the chocolate and ham (although those are good too), but the meaning the season holds for us. And the nice weather this year doesn't hurt my mood much either!

And then there's kids. They have so much wonderment and excitement over the little suprises they get...


Anyway, what will follow is the fun of the last three days... in picture form! So... a bit of a warning, this may be a photo overload!

M is looking contemplative at her grandparents... hmmm... what to do first...

I love to make things for every 'holiday' or event that occurs for some reason. This year I decided to have some fun with some of the easter cookie cutters I got from LW. I made 3 large chicks...

and a bunch of eggs...


two butterflies (for the girls)...

And three bunnies. There are probably about 5 cookies worth in each of these larger ones.

On Saturday morning, while waiting for Daddy to come in for breakfast, M decided to take my 'list' and my pen (which was disabled, thankfully) and 'check' things off. I wonder who she's mimicking now?

We went on a little Easter egg hunt after breakfast. The first one she managed to find and open held some mini marshmallows. She loved those. The chopped jelly beans were a hit too. And the necklace gift was great as well (she's loves wearing things on her head and face, so a necklace seemed to be the next step).

Here is one of the 'harder' eggs to find. I made them obvious. There were 12 in all...

Here she decided that all her eggs should go into these containers instead of the basket.

Oh look! I found another!

She dropped this one on the ground and it opened, revealing its contents... cheerios!

Mmmmmm.

Later that day, after her nap, she brought me the rest of her eggs so I could open them and she could eat whatever was inside. I filled 4 with various cereals, 2 with chocolate chips (not very many), one had jelly beans, one a necklace, 2 had mini cookies (see the little tiny hearts next to the chicks in a previous pic? Yeah, those), and two had mini marshmallows. Her eyes practically popped when she saw the cookies, and she giggled like crazy over the chocolate chips.

At my parents house we had another hunt... for a basket of goodies. Here she is thrilled to pieces about her cousin finding a basket. She just wanted to laugh and giggle for her... and didn't even think to look for one herself.

Finally she spotted the one we were trying to point out to her for awhile now... and ran towards it.

Oooh.... goodies!

It seemed that one of the highlights for the girls were the bubbles in the baskets. I am looking forward to blowing bubbles with M later... once our yard dries enough that I can take her outside again. Our yard is soaked!

So, that was our weekend in a nutshell (or not so much a nutshell as a crazy long photo driven post). How was your Easter? How do you celebrate?