Easter Celebrations
pamelamyers | April 20, 2014
Happy Easter! We had a great Easter this year and I hope these pictures show it. We had a lot of fun leading up to Easter before the day even got here. Sam was so excited about the Easter Bunny and wondering where her basket would be hidden. We decorated, we visited the Easter Bunny, and this year was our first year we decided to decorate Easter eggs with Sam.
Not surprisingly, she loved it! Coloring eggs is right up her alley. We just knew before this year it would have been such a mess. She loved the whole process of dipping the eggs and waiting for the color to come out. For her first time we went “old school” and just used standard dye in vinegar, nothing fancy.
She did a great job dipping the eggs and even mixing them in a few colors to see what would come out.
You can see how proud she was of her efforts! She picked out which ones were for Grandmom, Poppy, and Pop Pop right away and kept checking the refrigerator to make sure we didn’t eat them!
On Easter morning, she was up bright and early. She was in our bed (naturally) and I felt her pop up in the morning. The first words out of her mouth were, “Happy Easter, Mommy!” to be quickly followed by, “I wonder where the Easter Bunny hid my basket?” I told her we’d go look in a minute, but before I could even remotely wake up, she was out of bed opening closets and looking everywhere. She was pretty disappointed it wasn’t in any of our closets (she was sure EB would hide it in hers) or in any of his usual places. Finally, I had to help her out and let her know there was something in our tub that didn’t quite belong!
I love this expression – it perfectly captures what she kept saying over and over all day – why would the Easter Bunny hide her basket in the tub, that’s so silly!
Here’s a pic of her basket and its goodies, before it got completely torn apart. Sam got a Max and Ruby, some little bunnies, a stuffed duck (which was easily her favorite thing), some puzzles and other little toys, and of course, candy!
Sam loves checking out her goodies, one by one, very carefully, so she can inspect each and every thing.
And then, of course, she has to hurl all the grass into the air making a gigantic mess…
But she is a cute mess. 🙂
She got these cute little bunny ear barrettes and a pom pom tail in her basket too (you can’t see the tail, but she looks sweet in the whole outfit).
Later that morning, Pop Pop came by with another basket of goodies for Sam. The candy never ends! Yay!
We had dinner with my parents that night and took time to take a few family portraits. We all clean up pretty nicely, if I do say so myself!
It was a great day, just like always. The weather cooperated, and we spent time with family, gorged on chocolate, and relaxed. If only every day could be so nice! Happy Easter!