Warning: Long Post about Nothing in Particular
I have a confession. I HEART holidays big time. Heart them in a giddy jump-up-and-down annoying Hallmark kind of way. I get excited when Target clears out those back three aisles for the next holiday’s tchotchke about to be displayed. I love that an ordinary day is turned into something better, and of course love any excuse to dress up a cute baby and send holiday cards. (Hmmmm….what should she wear for her Veteren’s Day photo this year?) So, Easter is no exception, and I love everything…the eggs, the church outfits, the pastel kitchen towels, the ham dinner. I love pretending the Easter Bunny is going to come to our house in front of the boys even though my excessive enthusiasm is met with rolled eyes by all. Okay, Lainey appreciates it. My goal is that at the end of my life, my tombstone will read one thing: “She made it special.”

Our “special” included lots from last night’s egg decorating to today’s family day, but my favorites (in no particular order) are:

1) The way Lainey abandoned her perfectly decorated Easter basket I slaved over this morning for something apparently better…a cardboard shoebox

2) When the boys and I shook in our pews with laughter when we saw an old lady walk into church late this morning (apparently mistaking the contemporary service for the conservative one) right when the band was seriously “rocking it out” and the horrored look on her face that clearly said “This place has gone to hell.”

3) Trying to teach Lainey how to write with the sidewalk chalk the Easter bunny brought her

4) Watching Austyn carry Lainey into church without being asked–he just took her out of her carseat and walked with her. So cute.

5.) Going to church. I still like the Church of the Holy Beach, but I miss the real thing too. On list of “Things We Need to Do More” (underneath “Laundry,” of course)

Snapshots of our “Special”

Decorating Eggs

Lainey in Her Easter Dress

Family Easter Shot

Mommy and her Easter Baby

And, Creating a Masterpiece with Sidewalk Chalk later today…

Almost Done…

THERE!! All Done! Wow….you’re brilliant, Lainey!

Jo– this one’s for you! Lainey got your plush Peep in the mail! She and her colorful sugared marshmallow obsessed mommy thank you! …and now for some Peep fun!

Uh-oh. Someone spotted the Peeps. Thinkin’ about it…

Now’s my chance…no one’s looking…

GOTCHA!!! Delish!!!

This morning’s community Easter party had my cheeks literally aching with smiles… about a hundred little kids dressed in their Easter best showed up to make crafts and hunt for eggs. I couldn’t STAND how cute it was. I wanted to take every one of them home with me. Here are some pics of some random cuties…

And, of course, the cutest of them all (who happened to soak up LOADS of attention in her bunny ears…never tried to take ’em off!). I sat her in the grass during the little kids’ egg hunt and could not stop laughing….kids were running all around her, squealing, grabbing eggs, and she just sat there, chowin’ down on her donut hole, happy as ever. She managed to take home one egg–pink, of course. Her First Easter treasure. More goodies tonight…decorating eggs!