Easter

We had an extended Easter celebration. It started the week before Easter with the local Easter egg hunt. It was the funniest Easter egg hunt I have ever seen. It was scheduled for 1:00 – 3:00 pm. I assumed the hunt would start about 30 minutes after the celebration started so we planned to be there right at 1:00. Apparently the egg hunt started right at 1:00. As we parked our car we could hear the announcer telling everyone instructions. So we walked quickly to the egg hunt field and arrived right as they blew the start whistle. The field was covered in candy, eggs, and prizes. It was a ridiculous amount of candy. After everyone started it took about 5 minutes to clear all five fields. People were carrying around full Halloween buckets of candy. After the candy was gone everyone started leaving the park. Pretty much – the Easter egg hunt lasted 30 minutes max. They didn’t have any games or kids activities so really they should have said the Easter egg hunt was from 1:00 – 1:30.

Lilly did have fun spending 5 minutes gathering candy. She didn’t get much candy but that was preferable to me. They did have an Easter bunny so we spent some time getting a photo with it. Lilly acted the same with the Easter bunny as she did with Santa and she refused to look at it.

Lilly and her bestfriend Maci

On Easter weekend we had Lilly’s Easter pictures taken. Although we made an appointment there was still an hour wait. Lilly was so amazing during the pictures. She smiled and poised the way they told her. She was a star. I wanted the CD with all the pictures and to get it you have to get a package. It comes with way too many pictures and all sorts of extras I don’t need (like a tote bag with Lilly’s picture on it).

On Saturday we colored eggs. Holidays have been a lot of fun now that Lilly gets excited to do everything. She loved helping Mommy get everything ready to color the eggs and was really excited when she finally got to color one. She spent a lot of time with the white crayon and stickers.  

Sunday morning the Easter bunny came. There were some colored eggs hidden outside and plastic eggs hidden around the house. She was so cute the whole time finding everything. She would scream ‘egg’ and run across the lawn/house to get it. We got Lilly some princess items for her basket and some binoculars that she usually has hanging around her neck.  We really had a great Easter.

 

Lilly getting ready for Easter Sunday