Happy Easter!

We had a lovely Easter weekend for our first Easter in NC. I think the main difference between here and State College was the weather. Highs in the upper 80s, absolutely no snow. A bit different from previous Easters!


We kicked off the weekend last Thursday when we decided to dye Easter eggs. Both girls were very enthusiastic about dying the eggs. They liked dropping the tablets into the bowls of vinegar and putting an egg in each. Eliza got a little too excited and tried to grab the mug of green. Oops! Good thing we had a nice vinyl tablecloth underneath for protection! Wiped right up. Hayden liked to do ones of each color and was sad when we reached the end of our egg supply (14). They turned out quite pretty and are now waiting to be made into egg salad sometime this week.

We had the deluxe kit, so nine colors in all!

Oops, did I do that? Someone should clean that up.

Working hard to create beautiful eggs.

For Easter we got up a tad early, got dressed in our Easter finery (or something approximating finery) and headed to church. The girls were in good spirits and were on good behavior for the service. Then we came back home and had our very own Easter egg hunt. The grass was really wet so we had them put on their rainboots with their Easter dresses. So cute! Hayden was very excited about the egg hunt and raced around the yard finding eggs. Eliza was excited, but didn't want to reach into the wet grass to grab the eggs. It took some coaxing to get her started but then she did pretty well. I think she might have been a better hunter if she'd realized that the eggs contained candy! She was quite thrilled when we let them each have a piece of candy after the hunt was over and all the eggs were accounted for.

Gotta put on proper footwear!

Heading outside. Isn't Hayden a good big sister helper?

Found one!

Even Blizzard tried to help out with the egg hunt.

There's one there, in the grass. YOU get it.

Dooley was not interested in egg hunts, but she did like writching in the wet grass.

I got one!

Now she's got the hang of it. (as long as it's not in the wet grass)

Posing with her Easter basket and her cheesy grin.

Counting up the eggs. We were one short! But we found it after only a brief search.

Emptying out the candy. One of the best parts of the hunt!

After the hunt, we had a delicious Easter brunch - scrambled eggs, hash brown casserole, bacon, cinnamon rolls, and fruit. YUM! Eliza ate blackberries and cinnamon roll ('no-not' as she called it), Hayden ate bacon, blackberries and cinnamon roll, and Jason and I ate everything.

For Easter dinner we went over to another family's house to share dinner with them. I didn't take too many pictures, just enough to let you know it was a REAL party - cuz Eliza lost her clothes! Actually she had one of the only poop blowouts she's ever had in cloth diapers, and it got on her dress. But it didn't slow her down for after dinner outdoor play. Hayden and Eliza both liked the bubble present we got for the little boy (you can just see the bubbles in front of them) and E loved walking the lawnmower up and down the sidewalk.

HAPPY EASTER!