Samantha's first blog

Posted By pamelamyers on 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.

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

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

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.

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.

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

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!

Sam had to show us her foot next. Goofball!

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

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.

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.

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

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.

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.

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.

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

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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