Easter 2011

This Easter was BUSY! With me singing in the choir now and Nate playing hoops at the church gym with some buddies before 9am Mass, adding a newborn (and Easter) to the mix makes for a hectic morning . And Serin is a DREAM baby. But I still have to feed and change her sometimes. Such a pain. :-)  It was a great church service - very joyful. After church we went to Joanne and Chris' house in Lincoln, out in the country. It was great to just let the kids run around and have their 2nd Easter egg hunt for the day.

The Easter Bunny (a.k.a. Granny Peg) filled the kids' baskets with lots of fun stuff again this year. We  don't keep the magic alive with the Easter Bunny the way we do with Santa Claus. At least St. Nick is based off a real person. The bunny just seems so ridiculous and Finn never really bought into it anyway. They always love the thoughtful gifts Granny Peg gives them though, and on Easter they can thank HER!

Friends from church before the egg hunt.

Egg hunt #2 at Chris and Jo's house.  The ratio of kid to egg was much higher here!

Selah had opened almost every egg plastic egg she found and stuffed her cheeks with jellybeans before I realized it and made her stop opening them.  Selah + sugar + no nap = meltdown.

 We colored all the brown and blue eggs from Chris and Joanne's hens, which made such great rich colors again this year. We were thinking of getting a few chickens for our own backyard, but we get so many eggs from Chris and Jo every week, why bother? :-)

All in all it was such a relaxing Easter, after the morning busyness. I love hanging out there at Chris & Joanne's, under the grove of trees, watching the kids explore and no worries of them running out into a street of busy cars. They've got such a great property for kid exploration and parent relaxation.

And of course our little princess slept through most of the day, and I never really got a great photo of her in her cute little Easter dress. But that's par for the course these days. This was the best I could do.