Easter 2010

Highlights to remember:

• Waking up and seeing L in her bed. She hopped out and found the eggs down the hall (leaving some for the boys upon my gentle urging!) and tore into her basket.
  
• S not wanting to wake up but seeing the eggs down the hall changed his morning grumpies into giggles.
• J finding his basket and slowly looking through it - super carefully.
  
• J lovin' his sunglasses while egg hunting for the first time this morning. He just stood there for the longest time, trying to adjust to wearing the glasses.
• S lovin' his Spidey swim trunks and wearing them all morning. Even wanted to wear them all day but eventually changed into regular clothes.
  
• The Easter bunny leaves eggs all around our yard and the kids have to find them first thing. This includes being able to eat candy at 8 in the morning. Super special day for the kids!
  
• All 3 kids walking with me up to the gate to get my newspapers. L crammed her paper into her basket. S carried 3 papers but decided it was too heavy so he ditched one on the walk back to the house. J wanted so badly to carry a paper but between the paper, his basket, his glasses and his bink - something had to go and it was the paper :-)
• L trying on her new swimsuit and loving it.
• L noticing the Easter bunny managed to buy the right hairband but Mommy couldn't the other day.
  
• Running the egg bake to church. First time contributing something - WOOHOO!
• Coming home from dropping off the egg bake to find Daddy Piper cooking breakfast and 3 kids playing in the dark bathroom with their new glow sticks.
• Enjoying an Easter church service. Message was powerful, about fear. Super excited about the upcoming weeks on this same message. I took my first communion, after completing my First Communion class yesterday. I was so nervous I was going to screw it up but Pastor was reassuring and called me by name while blessing me.
• "Cult Gotcha?" text from Daddy Piper
• L & S hauling tree branches up to the fire pit for Daddy Piper .
• J attacking Daddy Piper while he was trying to eat lunch. He would walk up and just grunt and smash his face into the plate but didn't want the food because it was too hot.
• Hiding and finding eggs with the kids after dinner. They took a turn hiding them and parents finding them. We managed to lose 1 egg. Guess we'll smell it soon enough.
• L being scared after bedtime, worrying about an earthquake hitting us. We did feel tremors from the Mexican earthquake today.
• Doing a puzzle with S just after the earthquake tremors!
  
• J carrying his balloon during the entire evening egg hunt. He is attached to the birthday balloons from S party & Daddy's birthday last week.
• Kids going to bed with their glow sticks. J getting his taken away 'cause he was chewing on it.
  
• Feeling incredibly lucky to call this family mine. Another amazing holiday!!!

p.s. DADDY PIPER HAS WORK!!! Tomorrow - during the day. Should be a good day. I am excited to get in our routine, at least for a few days. God is good - ALL THE TIME!