Easter was here!

Oh, boy! What an Easter weekend we had. It was almost perfect, really. On Friday afternoon, I headed to the school to participate in Evan's classroom Easter egg hunt. It was cold and rainy so they held it in the cafeteria. Mrs. K had asked for each parent to send a dozen eggs and I guess other parents are over-achievers like me because they ended up with 399 eggs to hunt. They were limited to 21 eggs each and they all took that very seriously. Evan had a great time and I was glad I was there to see it!

Then, on Saturday morning, I headed to the church to help with their community egg hunt. There were right at 5000 eggs to hide and set up and such and I did my part and then got to be the mom and have fun with the kids. Annabeth went with Nick and I went with Evan, so not much for pictures of the actual hunt, but I did get some photos of the other activites. They had bounce houses, face painting, the Easter Bunny was there (see how excited Annabeth was to see him?? lol) and they served lunch, too. The weather was cold, 32 degrees when I left the house before 8am, but warmed up a bit by lunchtime and it was a blast!

She kept waving at him and wanted to get close, but when he came to us, she froze! I handed her off to him for a picture and she was literally FROZEN! She didn't bend her legs or her turn her head. Nick and I were cracking up!
Easter morning was busy. The Easter Bunny had come and left a gift for each kiddo and a chocolate bunny. He had left eggs around in the house for them to find, too. So the kids hunted more eggs while I prepared my very first Easter ham for the oven.
We snapped our Family Photo of the week and headed on to church. Here are a few of my favorite takes:
Annabeth wasn't being very cooperative. She kept laying her head down and pretending to be sleeping. Finally, Nick swung around at the last second and we got this one! Too cute!
On Sunday, the rains came. It was horrible. Cold and buckets of rain. We were so glad we had made the decision to stay home vs. driving in that rain to visit my family in the River Valley. We couldn't see 50 ft. in front of us and the wind was so nasty, Nick struggled with his little car.

We came home and I started on the rest of lunch. I was proud of myself and the ham, mashed potatoes & gravy, green beans and rolls were yummy!
We'll be eating left overs for the rest of the week, but that's ok! We lost power for a while on Sunday afternoon. I managed to work in the dark and clean out my scrap room. I'm getting ready for a garage sale soon. We have so much that we could get rid of. Let's just hope we can make a few bucks to put towards our vacation fund. (more details to come later!!)

I hope you all had a blessed Easter!