Easter...

Wishing you a lovely Easter Sunday. Easter reminds me of my namesake, my Grandmother. She always wore a white sweater to church and I would always help her put her earrings in her ears...

Easter Recap...

Easter has come and gone but I wanted to share a little bit of our Easter Weekend.  We celebrated on Saturday night with friends in the neighborhood with an Easter Egg Hunt in the dark with flashlights.  This was right down a little boy's alley!  Just as the hunt was about to kick off, Ethan was playing with another little boy and chased a ball right into a mud pit!  He was soaked down to his underwear!  We rushed home to change him and made it back just in time to collect 10,000 jellybeans in eggs!

The Easter Bunny of course brought Ethan his prized bubble gum.   He also brought him is first pair of scissors.  We had some Edward Scissor hands going on for about a week afterwards.  If there was paper ...it was shredded!  Bennett got his first pair driving mocs (shoes) and some baby legs {little leg warmers for babies}.  We then had brunch with David's side of the family and dinner with my mom and dad.  We were tired of doing the bunny hop at the end of the day and passed out amongst the hundreds of Reeses peanut butter eggs that the bunny brought!

 cute hat from Aunt Whitney!

cutting

playing after brunch

dying eggs!

hanging with Nana

the bunny hop...

I hope your Easter Weekend is full of gratitude and grace....family and friends....and cute little Easter basket fill full of goodies.  I can't help but to think back to my own Easters as little girl.  Running in my Maw-Maw's yard after eggs in some frilly dress surrounded my all my cousins.  Now I'm off to make memories with my own little boys:)

Easter...

Ethan and Easter Bunny (picture of a picture)

Easter this year was so much fun with Ethan. We kicked off the Easter season with a visit to Phillips Toy Mart to visit the bunnies. I remember my mom used to take me to McClures when I was a little girl to see the bunnies. So I was excited to see that Phillips did the same thing. I'm pretty sure Ethan just thought the bunnies were a form of Moli our cat.

bunnies at Phillips Toy Mart

He also went to go see the Easter Bunny. I lucked out with no one in line (we waited for around 30 minutes or more for Santa). I was even more pleased that I sat him down and he immediately started smiling. I'm thinking..."that was easy" until the lady taking the photos said she couldn't find the photos in the computer. By this time, Ethan's excitement is wearing off and is ready for me to pick up. Luckily, a young guy came and found all the smiling photos on the computer. I just felt bad for all the other parents whose smiling photos had been lost during the week:(


He went Easter egg hunting with his cousins Madeline and Caroline at the Brentwood Library. I think he was more interested in all of the other kids than the eggs. It was still pretty cute though to see him crawling around in the grass looking at the eggs scattered about.








On Easter morning, Ethan woke up to find the Easter Bunny had left him mega blocks in a little wagon and Gerber puffs in plastic eggs. What got his attention the most: the plastic eggs that he could shake of course! After breakfast I broke down and let David give Ethan his FIRST HAIRCUT! Well, a mini haircut. He had this long strand of hair that never fell out from birth that I just couldn't bear to trim. I finally let David trim it. If we had a vault, you bet it would be in there! I just could help but wonder if his baby hair never fell out how looong it would be now.





We then had breakfast at Mere Bulles with the Anderson Clan. After a little though, Ethan decided he WAS in fact a little scared of the Easter Bunny after he visited him on the lawn after breakfast! We really lucked out with the weather, it was a beautiful day! I was fortunate to also not to work my oncall at the hospital.






















We finished up the day with an afternoon lunch in White Bluff with Nana and Papa. Nana cooked a southern lunch. We now know Ethan loves ham, greenbeans, and potatoes! But only if Nana cooks them:) I've never seen him eat so much "table food" before!


By the end of the day, the entire family was exhausted. Bear was in bed by 6:40, I was in my pjs at 7p, and poor David worked on the taxes! It was a great day thanks to great family!

breakfast at Loveless Cafe the day before Easter

Happy Easter

This year I was scheduled to work on Easter. That didn't stop the nurses from having our fun....we hid Easter Eggs in our patient's rooms for the next shift of nurses to find!!!! The babies received adorable blankets and crochet hats with rabbit ears. They were donated and made from a church and were adorable!!!! We had coconut cake for lunch-which really woke up baby boy! I can't help but to think about next year--when the Easter bunny will be stopping by our house to visit our little one for the first time!