This is a great time of year. Lots of stuff happens. There's Spring, and our anniversary, and Easter and a bunch of birthdays! Ryan and I celebrated eight years together on Tuesday and it was such a great night. We had a ton of fun but we normally do!
This weekend we celebrated Easter! I love Easter. Ahhh, who am I kidding... I love most holidays. But I really get into Easter. The year we got married was really close to Easter and when we returned from our honeymoon I actually made Ryan color eggs with me. Then (***CHILDREN DO NOT READ THIS SENTENCE***) we split them up and hid them for each other. Poor guy, he didn't have a clue what he had gotten into! This year, we had a beautiful weekend. We colored the eggs outside on Saturday after the kids naps. It was good that we did it outside because Olivia got a little overzealous with the dye and Cooper REALLY got into putting sparkles on the eggs! Clean up was really easy though and the color came off my hands by the end of the day today, mostly. Cooper was really involved this year and all day yesterday he was talking about the egg search and how the Easter Bunny was coming to hide the eggs. This morning before it was time to get up we heard him yell 'Mama/Dadda I need to go potty' and then run to the bathroom. A few minutes later I saw him come out of the bathroom and run right back to bed. He didn't even look at the top of the stairs to see if anyone was down there watching him. It was like he knew he had to wait until we got up to get him. The egg hunt itself lasted a very short period of time, but that's what you get when there are only 13 eggs. The bunny hid a few plastic eggs as well that he made sure were easier for Olivia to find. In her search for the eggs, she did accidentally step on one... it was still good!
We had some family and friends over for an Easter brunch. I forgot to take any pictures of course, but Ryan got one great picture of the new baby in the family, Knox. He was perfect the whole time the Dolans were with us. Olivia got really into the egg hunt once we were inside. I kept picking up the plastic eggs and putting pennies in them and then re-hiding them around the house for her to find. She kept finding them and would scream in delight at how exciting it all was. She would then pile them up wherever I was and look at me like 'we're gonna keep doing this right?' It was adorable so I took a video. It literally lasted until she went to bed tonight. She got some pretty awesome sunglasses in her easter basket. She loves playing with Cooper's sunglasses and putting them on so it made sense that she got her own pair. They have made it through an entire day without getting broken by her, so we call that a success.
My only problem with Easter is the amount of candy I have to eat... I mean, what if the pastel colored pretzel M&M's taste different than the regular ones and what if the egg shaped Reese's Pieces pale in comparison to the original ones? I would need to be able to tell people about it and warn them away if necessary. Luckily, I'm always willing to take one for the team.
Hope everyone had a great weekend! Happy Easter!
~Ahna
