Easter... Finally!

I know I'm a couple of weeks late, but I finally have time to sit down and put up pictures from Easter! I actually was not very good at taking them, but Ruth took some, so I've managed to put together a few! :)

Easter started VERY early, as usual! Laney and I had to be at Sunrise Service at 0700 (Daddy was helping cook breakfast, so he had to be there even earlier)! But I did manage to get us both up and ready to go on time, which was a miracle (NOT a morning person). And we even had time to take a look at the Easter basket!

She was THRILLED... until we had to leave the basket alone until after church!

Notice... Laney's basket has all of Mommy & Daddy's favorite candy... weird...

One good thing about being up for sunrise service... seeing a cool sunrise!

We made it through Sunrise Service (no nursery) thanks mostly to packets of Smarties that I had in my pocket! I think she ate 4 packs during the service... but she stayed quiet! :) After Sunrise Service we had breakfast (cooked by the men at our church... delicious!) and our normal Sunday School and church. Afterwards, pretty much all the family we have in town came over to our house for lunch! We had a really good time, even if we were crammed into our little kitchen at our kitchen table and two card tables! :) Laney fell asleep during lunch, so pretty much everyone left. Then she woke up just in time to hunt for her eggs! She actually understood what she was doing, which made it a lot of fun. She looked pretty adorable, if I do say so myself!

Examining her "haul." Every time she found an egg and put it in her basket, she'd look up at us and say "Mo?" She was really good at finding them, though. Except for the ones buried in grass!

Even putting the purple one by the purple pool didn't fool her!

Great-Grandma Looten gave her eggs full of quarters for her piggy bank (much appreciated, since she got GOBS of candy). She had a blast putting them into the piggy bank one at a time... too bad Daddy's back still hasn't recovered!

Hanging out with Aunt Ruthie, eating Smarties, and playing with the stuffed bunny Uncle Tim brought her!

And... the million dollar question... Laney DOES like Peeps! We'll have to see if she comes to her senses as she gets older.

In fact, she likes them so much, she pushed them around in her stroller! If you can't see them, she's got a comb, her milk, and a peep in her stroller. What more could a girl need?!

So there's the Easter update... we are busier than ever, due mostly to the fact that we have a 19 month old with apparently limitless energy! She is a handful, very willful and stubborn. But she's a lot of fun to have around... most of the time! :) In case you're wondering, she's adjusting pretty well to the new daycare. We really like Tamra, who takes care of her. She's good with Elena, and she takes them all over, doing fun stuff like the carousel at the mall and Bonkers. And, she's even working on potty training with Elena (it's kind of like peer pressure, because the other little girls all go to the potty at the same time, so Elena goes, too). I really consider it a God thing that she happened to open up a daycare in our neighborhood when we happened to be looking for one. Lena is happy to go play with her friends (she runs towards the door yelling Ally every morning) and happy to go home every afternoon (she never fails to come running towards me with a huge grin, yelling Mommy), and what more could I ask for in a daycare?!