Well, it was a little sad to celebrate Easter without Daddy around, but as the girls ended up with 5 Easter baskets apiece, we survived! We spent the day with all of our families (church, the Lootens, and the Prices), but we still missed our Daddy!
The Easter Bunny left some treats for the girls on Saturday night!
(the Easter Bunny was apparently too effective with spring cleaning last year, ‘cause all of the Easter baskets were gone! Good thing Laney didn’t notice that the baskets were the shoe basket from the closet and the bib basket from her room!)
Aunt Ruthie stayed over on Saturday night to help me get the girls up and ready on Sunday morning (since we had to be at church at 7:00).
Audrey definitely showed her non-morning person genes when it was wake up time on Sunday morning, but she still loves her Truman!
Laney, on the other hand, has never jumped out of bed and gotten dressed as fast as she did when we said she had to get up and dressed before she could go see her basket! She was moving at warp speed!
Love the Peeps on a stick!
Audrey… still not sure why we’re awake! But she did like the balls the Easter Bunny left her…
After Sunrise Service, breakfast, Sunday School, and church, the girls and I headed to Uncle Tim’s house to have lunch with the Lootens. Grandma & Grandpa Looten came up from Springfield, and of course Mallorye and Tim and Grandma Jo were there. We had a delicious lunch and a little indoor egg hunt for Laney, who just about exploded while we were making her wait to start “finding” the eggs. She could see them, of course, so she just ran around yelling “I SEE ONE! But I can’t get them until Grandma Jo gets here. I SEE A BLUE ONE! But I can’t get them until Grandma Jo gets here.” It was pretty funny, actually, when it wasn’t really annoying! :)
Although we didn’t get a whole family picture this year, I did manage to get both girls to sit down and take a picture… they were kind of looking at the camera! :)
When Grandma Jo got there, Laney & A finally got to pick up those eggs that had been taunting them (or at least Laney).
Audrey did kind of get into putting eggs in the basket…
…but not nearly as much as Laney, who didn’t stop smiling or shrieking the entire time!
Since she had about half an hour of looking time before the “hunt” began, she really found them all pretty quick, even the ones that were pretty hidden!
Happy with her pile of candy and eggs!
Notice the second Peep stick in Laney’s basket… yeah, she said she “only likes the PINK ones!” Good thing Miss A. doesn’t have the same preferences…
So, after eating way too much at Uncle Tim’s, we headed out to the Price Farm, for more Easter baskets, Easter egg hunting, and, of course, eating! The bad news was that Laney and A did NOT take naps. They slept for about 20 minutes in the car, and I was thinking I would be able to get them in the house without waking them up, but the both were totally perky (ok, not perky, but definitely awake) by the time I got them to a bed. It’s like they’d had a sugar overdose or something… sooo, it was a cranky Laney that did the egg hunting!
I know, hard to believe this could be cranky… but, trust me!
Even Audrey got into the hunting… a little! Then she pretty much wanted to be held…
For Laney there was much yelling, laughing, running (and,therefore, falling), and several fits while she hunted for eggs!
She did look awful cute, though!
After two rounds of hunting eggs, we were all pretty tired, and cold (would have thought that it would have been warm, as late as Easter was this year, but no, thanks loads, MO). We played with some bubbles, which was hilarious, but I have to wait to tell that story until I have the video version… So, anyway, we headed inside for dinner, and had some delicious bbq pork sandwiches (not that the girls and I were the slightest bit hungry after a late lunch). After lunch, we watched Anastasia (Laney’s favorite movie to watch at Grandma & Grandpa Price’s, since she doesn’t have it at home). It was nice just to chill and watch the movie (and that didn’t invite too many fits from the non-napped 3 year old).
After the movie, it was about time to get my sleepy girls (and my sleepy self) home and to bed! We had such a good Easter, though… the only thing missing was Daddy!
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