The Easter Bunny Has Arrived!

| April 2, 2018

Happy Easter, everyone! It was an exciting morning, at least for Samantha, in the house. She kept begging me to let her sleep in our bed because she is always worried about sleeping alone on nights that someone (i.e. Santa or the Easter Bunny) are coming into the house. She thinks they will hear her get up in the middle of the night to come to my room and that would be bad because they would leave. I told her, then stay in your bed! And she said, clever little one that she is, “What about the song? He knows if you are sleeping? He knows if you’re awake? What about that?” I told her she was not allowed in our bed, but if she was good, she could go to sleep in the guestroom and when I came to bed, I would sleep with her so she didn’t feel like she had to get up. That satisfied her. So, the two of us slept in the guest room (with Penny). Sam woke up at 6:00 a.m. and kept asking me when it was time to get up. There was no way I was getting up for an Easter basket before 7:00 so I told her she had to wait until then. There is a digital alarm clock in that room that is very hard to read unless you push the button on the top that illuminates the screen. Sam kept pushing that thing EVERY MINUTE from about 6:10 until 7:00. Which would not be a problem, except the button has a very loud click when pushed. She is insane.

Finally, 7:00 came and Sam ran into our room to wake up Mark. When we got downstairs, it wasn’t the first place she looked, but it wasn’t too hard for Sam to find her basket. She was thrilled!

Just like always, she has to open every little goodie she gets. I think she likes the toys more than the candy (but she does like the candy!)

One of her favorites was the toy inside her Easter-themed Suprizamal, this pretty little butterfly.

All in all, the Bunny left a good haul! Lots of Hatchimals, which makes sense, since they come in eggs!

Sam liked her bunny themed ring pop.

We made a basket for Baby Ann and Sam loved showing it to her.

Baby Ann got a few more stuffed bunnies, just like her favorite pink one, Bun Bun. I love how she treats her dolls like real people.

Sam also got a special treat from the Easter Bunny – a pink and purple bush baby, just like Boo Boo. We decided they must be Boo Boo’s parents.

After all the basket festivities at home, it was time to get cleaned up and go to Aunt Krista and Uncle Adam’s house for dinner. Krista organized an Easter egg hunt for the kids and they loved it! Ryder was ready to go!

The three cousins had a blast running around the yard searching for eggs. They each had their own colors so that it was fair and everyone got the same number of eggs. Maddox and Sam were running like mad and poor little Ryder kept chasing after them!

There was one big egg for each of them hidden in the mailbox. We finally had to give in and give them a hint. We would have been out there all day!

Cousins 🙂

After the hunt, it was time to relax, and then eat!

Krista and Adam hosted a great Easter, and we all had such a good time. Sam loves being with her cousins. She is happiest running around with other kids, and when it’s family, it’s even better. Happy Easter!

Our Beautiful Easter Bunny

| April 1, 2018

Here are Samantha’s annual Easter pictures. Our little bunny looks more beautiful every year. Where has the time gone? Happy Easter!

Easter Activities Abound!

| March 31, 2018

Sam has really been excited about Easter this year. We have done pretty much every Easter activity I can think of, with the exception of Easter Bunny photos. Sam isn’t really that keen on seeing the mall Easter Bunny, and I can’t say I’m sorry about that.

Our first order of business was an Easter egg hunt. Sam really wanted to do one this year, and even though we have one planned on Easter at Krista and Adam’s house with Maddox and Ryder, she had already asked me if I’d set one up at home, so I did. The weather has been so weird, cold then hot. Thankfully, we had a day where it was warm (not shorts warm, but Sam didn’t care) so I was able to hide the eggs outside. I only hid 15, and she found the first 12 pretty quickly, but the last 3 she had a really hard time with! Mark and I were giving her all kinds of hints, but she wasn’t picking up on them.

By this point, she had absolutely no clue where the last 3 eggs could be and was getting very frustrated!

Ta da! Found one!

It was a pretty successful egg hunt, if I do say so myself.

I was hoping Sam would wait to dye eggs until the next day, but nope! She wanted them DONE! This year, instead of just using food coloring like we normally do, I bought a kit that was supposed to make marble eggs.

Sam enjoyed it and they came out pretty well, I think! Now, we just have to wait for the Easter Bunny!

The Bunny Came!

| April 17, 2017

The Easter Bunny didn’t forget Samantha this year! Once again, he hid her basket. We had a bit of a calamity in our kitchen recently from some water damage (don’t ask…that’s a story for another day), so we had to empty out a lot of our kitchen. The almost empty coat closet left a big space for a basket! How could a bunny resist? It was not the first place Sam looked, but it didn’t take her long to discover her loot.

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As you can see, it was a heavy basket – quite the haul!

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Sam couldn’t rip into it fast enough. That darn bunny always wraps up her basket!

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Her favorite chocolate, and lots of other goodies too. The bunny must have known what an excellent reader she has become because she got some new books.

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The night before Easter, Sam told me she wanted to leave the Easter Bunny a note. She wanted to know what color he is. She asked that he write back, and she also left her camera hoping he’d take a picture of himself. I told Sam that was a stretch because I don’t know if bunnies can write, but she seemed confident. She always wonders what color he is – brown, white, black. Ever since she noticed that the Easter Bunnies at the mall are various colors (she does not believe that they are the real Easter Bunny), she just has to know! After opening her basket, we spied her note and…the Bunny wrote back! She also found a mysterious photo on her camera.

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The Easter Bunny left her a nice note with a picture of a heart pierced by a carrot and signed it, “EB”. Hmmmm…..

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And we found this on her camera! Apparently, he tried to take a photo of her basket, but got his foot in the photo by mistake. Well, I guess she knows what color he is now!

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Sam had to show us her foot next. Goofball!

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Once we were all dressed in our holiday finest, we went out to take some more pictures. I just love that beautiful face!

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If her whole outfit were in this one, she’d look like a catalog model for the dress! It’s one of our favorite pics of the day.

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Grandmom has been asking Mark to take a nice picture of the three of us, but Sam made it hard. She kept goofing around and wanting to squish us in every picture. They turned out pretty well though, eventually.

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Family photos are the best part of the holidays. Everyone cleans up nicely, if I do say so myself.

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Before dinner, my mom gave Sam a special Easter gift – a locket with a picture of her Grandmom and Poppy. Sam just loves it. She has been really missing her Poppy lately, so it helps to have them close to her heart.

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The day was so gorgeous (over 80 degrees!) and my kitchen is such a wreck that we all ate outside. Sam and Ryder had a great time with their cake. Well…the frosting. Not the cake.

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Sam got her bug examination kit and the kids all had fun catching bugs and putting them in a jar to explore. They found so many slugs and insisted on showing them to us. Um…no, thank you.

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Here they are with a jar full of slugs. Blech! But they look happy!

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We managed to get them all to settle down enough to take some nice pictures. It’s been a while since the cousins got a new photo together. They are growing up way too fast. Happy Easter everyone!

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Happy Easter!

| April 16, 2017

Happy Easter everyone! There will be lots of fun Easter basket photos to come, but for now, here is our beautiful girl. Yup, she is wearing clip-on earrings. She is fascinated with earrings and that’s all she’s gonna get!

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