easter weekend part 2

Sunday was a long day. Jesse was up at 5:45 and it was perhaps the first time that I was happy to be awake that early. It gave me time to get ready for our church's Easter Sunday breakfast potluck. While the rest of the family slept and Jesse played with his cars, I got my potluck contribution all ready (a big bowl of yogurt with fruit on the bottom and homemade granola on top). We were at church by 8:30 and enjoyed lots of fresh fruit, paska, easter eggs and the yummiest granola and yogurt ever!

Our church always sings the Hallelujah Chorus and invites anyone that wants to sing up to the choir loft. We happen to have our camera along and I'm so glad that Andrew took these pictures. Can you see me? In the front on the right?

After church we went straight to my parents and spent the day with my side of the family. After lunch the kids opened their Easter bags (new clothes, an easter book, gum and a chocolate lollipop.) I'm not sure who came up with the idea but we played "spin the bottle" to decide who would receive their bag first.
Check out the antique 7-up bottle. Do you remember these pop bottles?

The girls all got new tops and khaki capris. Again, I am loving the sunny spring colours.

After Jesse had his nap, the kids headed outside for the egg hunt. They each had a different colour egg to find and there were 10 for each of them. I had a great laugh when I first saw these pictures. My nephew Andre is going through a stage where he needs to give a goofy pose whenever the camera comes out. Here is his karate pose. Check out Jesse on the side. He has just been woken up and is not interested in posing and also has no desire to look for his orange eggs.
But, even with a slow start to the egg gathering, Jesse soon realized that this was an okay activity. His eggs were easy to spot...they were the ones placed right on the grass. Here he is showing Daddy the one he found on the porch bench. Then when his 10 eggs were collected, he decided that he wanted to search for more. That's until he realized that there was something inside the eggs. I needed to distract him when he kept wanting me to open them and find more little chocolate eggs inside. Thank goodness toddlers are easy to distract.

And Andre had the last eggs to find.

Where is that green egg?

It's somewhere around the van?

Found it!

The kids had so much fun finding the eggs, that the girls made their own egg hunt for the dads. They were tricky to find and there is still one egg unaccounted for.

Here are some of my favorites from the day... I really like the one of Abigail in the tree. She eventually got stuck up there and had to be rescued by Andrew.