easter

This is a picture of our little family on Easter morning.  We had a very nice Easter.  We kept it fairly low key.  We are a total breakfast family so whenever it is possible to celebrate with breakfast foods that is exactly what we do.  We invited my parents over for an Easter breakfast spread of yummy deliciousness.  We had French toast, scrambled eggs, sausage, muffins, and pineapple. Yum!  I even contributed to the spread with some fantastic muffins that I found on Pinterest.  And I encourage you to head to your kitchen and make a batch!!  Now! Okay.  I got off topic.  We put an Easter bunny in our front yard this year.  The boys have become obsessed with the little critter.  It’s gone as far as I am required to go downstairs at night and go outside (rain or shine or snow) and give the bunny rabbit a kiss goodnight while the boys observe from the nursery window.  Sigh.  So needless to say we wanted to incorporate the bunny rabbit into our Easter celebration.  So after breakfast Kara and I put the Easter Baskets outside next to the bunny rabbit.  The bunny rabbit is in our front yard.  So we then made a trail of Easter eggs from the back door to the front door.  The boys then had to follow the Easter eggs to their baskets.  We gave them buckets to put the eggs.  I really didn’t know what the boys would do but let me tell you it only took a second for the light bulb to go off and for little legs to start scurrying across the back yard for those Easter eggs.  Alex was picking them up at lightning speed while Jakob would try to stop and savor the moment.  It was cute.  By the time we got to the front yard Alex had realized the Easter eggs contained jelly beans and he quickly became distracted with removing all the jelly beans from his plastic eggs.  Jakob on the other hand had discovered his Easter basket and was under the impression that he had to remove the contents from his Easter basket and deposit them into his bucket.  I can see how that conclusion was made.  A logical little fellow indeed.  It was cute.  We let the boys play outside for a bit with their new Easter goodies before we went inside to conclude our celebration.  Our weather was gorgeous this year!  We could not have asked for a better day.  And in case you are wondering the boys each consumed about 54 jelly beans and then proceeded to have a major sugar crash about 2 hours later.  The candy is packed away until next year!!

Mary