Happy Easter!

We started this morning out with a little Easter Egg Hunt for Courtney in our front yard. She was so excited to find her eggs and gifts and put them in her basket.

She got some books and a purse to put them in. What a happy girl!

Here she is right before church in her pretty Easter dress (thanks again, andrea!). Whenever I say "smile!" this is what i get. head tilted back and a cheesy grin.

After church we headed out to Menan for our annual easter egg hunt. Here's the three of us hangin' out waiting for the hunt to begin.

And here's Courtney in all her Easter Egg Hunting spirit glory. She refused to get her hiney off the swing and go find her eggs.

All the little kids had their own section of the yard for their treats. Courtney's was on the basketball court.

Here's Courtney trying to help Jeremy find his candy. (The adults have a more difficult time finding their candy.)

Searching For Katy's Candy

Alright, so the funniest story... My mom and I hid everything this year, and for Katy we wanted to hide her stuff way down low since she always says her stuff is too high for her to even see it (she's short). So we made absolute sure that all her stuff was shin height. We had put her stuff in a bush near the road. Anyway, the Menan neighborhood has a resident who is mentally handicapped and wanders the neighborhood and into people's homes and yards and whatnot on occasion. So here he comes while we're hiding the candy and he stays for quite a while. He finally leaves, and we begin our hunt. Like an hour later everybody has their stuff except for Katy. I finally decided to just go show her where it is, and it's GONE! it is NOT where we put it! So here we are, just certain that this guy had snatched her candy on his way out the driveway. Every single person searched high and low, up and down, everywhere, and we could not find her candy. Everyone was certain her candy had been stolen. It was pretty funny to imagine this man sitting around the corner eating Katy's candy. The search for her candy went on forever.

And then, I'm not sure who it was who actually found it and told my mom, but we were like, "oh yah....that's where we put it!" We had hit it behind the wheel up under the truck. Duh.

We had Easter dinner at my mom's after the hunt, then went to Jeremy's mom's for Easter dinner again. Mmmmmm!! THANK YOU to all the great chefs who cooked tonight, it was delicious!

Saturday we went to Jeremy's mom's house to do Easter eggs, which is a yearly tradition. This year Courtney got to do princess eggs. I think probably 5 out of those 6 eggs got cracked before they left her kitchen table. If it wasn't Courtney banging them on the table, it was me and them slipping between my fingers.

The Loot

After all was said and done, here's the loot. And yep, I'm still going strong on the low carb thing (down 7 lbs now!) and haven't had sugar for over a week now. Here's the temptation i now face. I think it'll all get put in a really big bowl and hidden away. Out of sight, out of mind, right? However, if you look to the right edge of the table, there's MY easter! Since I don't get any candy, I thought today would kinda suck. But it happens that Katy cleaned her closet out, and I got a new wardrobe! Lots of super cute tops and a few pair of pj pants. Very cute. And Melina also ordered me a bunch of Avon stuff, (a new purse, new lotions, chapsticks, jewelry, and color rub soap stuff ((moreso for courtney)) ) for trade for babysitting sometimes while she works. So seriously, I would much rather take clothes and jewelry and a purse full of stuff over candy anyday!

We hope you all had a wonderful Easter!