Easter

Easter may be one of my favorite times of the year.  Its springtime and the weather is usually great.  And it's a great celebration of Jesus' sacrifice on the cross and his resurrection from the grave.  It doesn't get much better than that!

The girls both got visited by the Easter Bunny this year and really cleaned up.  Well Avery cleaned up.  Ellie doesn't know the difference.

After checking out all the goodies we cleaned ourselves up and got ready for church. You can't be a girl and not get a new dress for Easter.  Even at my age I feel compelled to buy something new! This year was no exception.

We tried to get some pictures after church.  Avery was not the most cooperative.  Even as I was writing this post she was looking at pictures with me and said "I was mad during those pictures." I said "Why"? She said "Because I was ready to go!"  There you have it!

Avery was ready to go because she knew we were headed to my parents house. My parents are so gracious and usually take the girls most Sundays after church.  They've been doing this since Avery was a baby and we are so thankful.  Of course, the love it too.  Avery wasn't real happy when she learned that Ronnie and I would be spending the afternoon with Gigi and Grandpa too.  She likes to have them all to herself!

Not only did my parents feed us but they also had eggs for Avery to hunt.  Full of money and gum.  Two things Avery loves.  I've only recently let Avery start chewing gum so it's quite a treat for her!

Ellie decided to sit out on this hunt and she said she'll catch it next year. She opted for a nap instead.  I'm not sure how Avery will feed having to share her eggs with her sister next year! If she's anything like she is now, she'll share just about anything with Ellie! 

We had a great Easter.  Next year Ellie will be 1 and Avery will be 4!  I can't wait to see what that brings us!

More adventures to come!

Easter Egg Hunt

Today was one of my favorite days at the our local Community Center-  the annual Mayor's Easter Egg Hunt.  I first brought Avery to this Easter Egg Hunt 3 years ago.  Ronnie was still in public accounting and working every Saturday and I thought this would be fun for Avery.  We had a blast then and we had a blast today.

We started out at our favorite spot: face painting.  Last year Avery got her face painted like a tiger.  This year she wanted something different.  She was so sweet sitting in the chair getting her face painted! Such a big girl!
 

This is what our girl was transformed into.

Okay, so maybe transformation isn't exactly the right word.  But the face painting artist did this butterfly in all of about 90 seconds.  She's pretty awesome and we never try to miss face painting at any event at the Community Center!

Next up was the big event, the Easter Egg Hunt! Ellie was dying to get out there and hunt eggs but Ronnie wouldn't let her. 

See?  Ellie is pouting. She can really stick out that bottom lip.

Avery did get to hunt eggs and she had a great time.  Ronnie gave her multiple pep talks while we waited.  I guess they worked because Avery filled up her basket with eggs!

We caught up with our friends and neighbors after the hunt. They have twin girls Avery's age and they are the sweetest friends (most of the time). The girls couldn't wait to get to the bouncy castle.  I'm not sure if Avery was more excited to being going to the bouncy castle or that she was getting to see some of her favorite friends.

I love this picture!

We ended the fun with lunch at a diner across the street.  Everyone filled up on burgers and fries (and tater tots and onion rings) and declared the morning Easter Egg Hunt a success! 

I love how Avery is holding on to her friend Natalee's arm.  Such dolls!

We love going to events at the Community Center!  Avery always has a great time.  We can't wait until Ellie is big enough to hunt eggs too!  It will such an adventure!

More adventures to come!

Disclaimer:

1. Please do not judge Avery's fingernails in the opening picture.  Her manicurist has been a little busy (that's me and by busy I mean lazy). Also fingernail polish looks good on a 3 year olds nailsfor approximately 42.8 seconds.  And then it starts chipping.
2. Disregard my childs belly in the picture of her holding up her Easter basket.  Her stylist is still working on her spring and summer wardrobe.  Avery has been plagued with having to wear things from last year.  Oh the horror!
3. Yes I realize that there is only 1 picture of Ellie in this entire post.  I am still finding my groove with 2 kids.  While I am proud on most days that I can have them both fed and dressed by 9 AM, taking pictures of both of them is still a challenge.  I'll get better and promise to do better next time! Thank you for your understanding!  

What Happened?!

Well my dear friends, it's been a while hasn't it?  I have missed our little chats and I've been racking my brain trying to figure out why I was such a faithful blogger for such a time and then dropped off the face of the Earth. I figured it out.

TV.

No seriously.  R and I don't have cable.  So it's easy to blog in the summer months when there's nothing on TV.  Then, the fall comes around, new shows are on TV and our TiVo starts to fill up with a bunch of mindless entertainment and I choose TV over my dedicated blog readers.  For this, I apologize...until the fall.

So here I am.  Summer months are on the horizen and I've seen all the season finales I care to this year. Hopefully, I can entertain myself with my blog for a while.  So a quick recap of what you might have missed over the past few months.

Valentines Day

Where we all got a little something.

Yep, those are Girl Scout cookies for Valentines Day.  Very romantic.

Avery got some special candy and her own rose from her daddy.

Don't ask about the Cinderella dress over the clothes. 

Challenging games of Pop the Pig

Have you heard of this game?  When you don't have cable and you let your kid watch kid shows on regular TV, you see a lot of toy propaganda.  Avery insisted on this game and Santa heard her cries.

It's exhausing.

You feed the pig these little hamburgers and then the pigs belly "pops" when it's full. It's quite entertaining.  For a 2 year old.

Avery was invited to a Royal party.

It was no party for Kate Middleton but I think Kate would have been proud!  Avery was invited to a Princess birthday party.

Including make-up and everything!

I gotta say, I think she was the most fashionable Princess there!

Pizza Party

Avery and her BFF's Chloe and Hannah got together for a pizza party.

Avery took her job of topping eater very seriously.

A good time was had by all.

Easter

Every year our town center has an Easter Egg hunt including a pancake breakfast (yum!), inflatables and Avery's favorite...

face painting!  Isn't she the cutest tiger you've ever seen?!

Yep, this is the only egg we came home with. 

We colored Easter eggs for the fist time this year!

And had an Easter egg hunt inside due to the less than ideal weather on Easter day.

My little Easter Princess with a new big girl haircut!



The family on Easter.  Not too shabby.

So there you have it.  The past few months in a big, giant, long nutshell. It's not easy summarizing 3-4 months in long abbreviated post.  There was so much more than just these moments. There was a very special 3 year old birthday party celebration in there but that deserves a post of its own.  Welcome back my friends.  Welcome back.

More adventures to come.