Monday, April 13, 2009

Easter

He is Risen! He is Risen indeed!
We celebrated all weekend and had a very memorable Easter weekend.
We started Friday morning at a community-wide Easter celebration...we had such a good time!
It got even better when Brad surprised me and the girls by showing up just in time for the 10,000 egg Egg hunt! That was some hunt!

Lillianna and Ellenie both painted ceramic eggs. (a little windy eh?)

Ellenie was too small to jump in all the inflatable stuff but was just right for a inflatable Dora...that was just about as big as her!
E: D-D-D-D-D-D-D
The rest of us (singing): D-D-D-Dora! D-D-D-D-Dora the Explorer!
E: D-D-D-D-D-D-D

L: The REAL Easter Bunny!
So hard to tell in the picture but they are acutally both tightly HUGGING him!
He's so much more approachable than Santa.

Saturday morning we finally got around to dying eggs.
Me: Lillianna, we've got to dye eggs this morning.
L: You mean, we're going to die them and give them to God in Heaven?
Ellenie helped too - I forget what a mess this is - but so much fun!
I wish we had done another dozen....except what to do with all of them in a few days?

Easter morning...the Princess cup was in her basket along with the sunglasses. She loved them both...at the same time.


Ready for Church... just not ready to be photographed 55 times.


L: AHH! I'VE EATEN 200 JELLY BEANS AND SO YELLING SEEMS LIKE A GOOD IDEA.
E: Yea, well...I just woke up from my nap so could you keep it down.


L: See, I can be still for one second Mom.



After Church we headed to Tuscaloosa to see Jean Jean, Sue Sue, Pops, Aunt Ashley, Uncle T, Aunt Lesley and Cousin Kylen. Yea what fun!


Then we did the Easter tradition of wearing our leis and standing like statues with our Easter buckets. Everybody does this right?


Ellenie playing with Keisha. Papa James would love this picture.

We tried to get the perfect picture of all the grandchildren for you Sue Sue! Almost.


Helping Jean Jean plant some more dirt.


It was a weekend full of celebrating our blessings.
Blessings we are grateful for everyday.

1 comment:

Brooke Maedel said...

Your two little blessings are so precious. Can't believe how big they are both getting. It is so fun getting to see pics like this that truly show their spirit. Love to you all!