Easter day

Whew! Our extended Easter celebration concluded today after a busy day!

To get started, here's our customary "this year vs. last year" shot:

Mackenzie before church last year:
And this year( too chilly for a pretty dress):


( If you're really bored, you can look back at last years Easter post and see Mackenzie three Easters ago as a newborn)

Our day started out earlier than normal since Mackenzie and I were meeting Grammy at church for breakfast before service. As soon as Mack swallowed her last bit of sausage, she was ready to go to the nursery to play with her Sunday morning friends. After church, we stopped by Grammy's. She had a special surprise for Mackenzie- a cool Elmo video about birthdays, two outfits, leggings and socks!

After nap we headed back to Grammy's for Easter dinner. Aunt Janet brought her good friend Anna and Doris and Aunt Meg also came. It was a ladies event! We all commented on how wonderful the food ( and the company) was. Aunt Meg and I took Mack out for a short walk where Mackenzie rounded up nearly ever pine cone she found along the way. Thank goodness Aunt Meg was there to help carry of them!

It was a very relaxing afternoon. Thanks to Grammy for hosting.


And since I last posted a picture of Janet playing with the kids in the bathroom, I promised I'd post a picture of her doing something normal. This is Aunt Janet in her element:
Mackenzie was chasing after Aunt Janet with this book and they had such fun reading together.

Here's Mackenzie riding off into the sunset...

43.75 loooong days

Mike and I gave up candy for Lent. It really was an eye opening experience and I'm glad I did it. We ended up ending Lent just a few hours early and both indulged our sweet tooth at around 9:30 pm.


Mike with his bounty:
Can't have chocolate without ice cold milk:

Sadly, after eating just a few pieces, I got horrible heartburn which kept me up all night. Chocolate,old friend, how could you betray me?

A girl after my own heart...

My Chocoholic:

A short video of Mack exploring her basket:

E.B

The Easter Bunny came early because Mike has to work on Easter. He dropped his basket full of goodies off to Grammy's since we'd all be eating dinner there.

That silly bunny left his tracks:

Mack followed those tracks to this:

Before we could really blink an eye, she had the foil wrapper off the chocolate bunny and a mouthful of ears!
Sharing her bounty with Grammy and Aunt Meg:

Egg dying

I don't think Mackenzie really understood what all this egg dying business was about but she had fun none the less:



And, at long last, a taste test:

On the hunt

Grammy threw an Easter egg hunt for Mackenzie and her friends! The Wilson's came and so did Ben and Hal. It was so much fun that I hope it will become an annual event. Thanks again, Grammy!

Let me explain this picture...Mary has a nightlight that flashes different colors. Ben really loves it. He likes to shout out the colors as they appear. Since it was daylight, the nightlight would only work in the bathroom. So here you have a truly strange picture:



And they're off! Grammy color coded the egg hunt. Olivia fittingly looked for pink eggs, Mack yellow and Ben purple:
Mackenzie found one of Ben's eggs so Grammy told her to hide it from him. Here's what she did:
The eggs were filled with little goodies like Goldfish crackers and Raisinettes. One egg contained a slip of paper for one goody bag. The bags were filled with fun spring treats like bubbles, a stuffed toy and a fun bendy straw! Afterwords we all enjoyed spring cupcakes. Some of us more than others:
Our wonderful friends, the Wilsons:
Aunt Janet with Hal and Ben ( Jeanette was working):