easter 2011 favorites part two

Easter egg hunting continued.  The boys were finished finding their eggs, but the girls continued their search.

Finally the searching was over.

The eggs could finally be opened to find lots of yummy chocolate.

The paska could also be eaten.

The hockey game started.  (You'll be seeing more hockey shots from our next Easter celebration.)

The blue eyed boys.

The next morning we returned to Grandma and Grandpa's for a morning of playing and Easter egg colouring.

And that's a wrap from Easter celebration #1.  More still to come.

easter 2011 favorites part one

I won't be getting Easter 2011 covered in two parts this year.  There are just way too many pictures to cover.    This year we spent Good Friday with my family.  As soon as we arrived, the kids got right down to business organizing all the eggs for the easter hunt.

There was also brunch to prepare.

 

Jesse also found time to organize all the toy figures.

Paska needed to be iced.  This was my first year making paska.  (Thanks for grabbing the camera Andrew!)

 
In the afternoon, the eggs were hidden outside and the kids got to hunting.

At first Jesse was concerned that he wouldn't be able to find all his orange eggs.  He needed a lot of encouragement.

The rest of the kids know the drill.

Jesse's were a bit trickier to find this year so he needed a bit of help.

"Where's the egg?"

"Found it!"

Jesse got some direction to look around the sandbox.

These two were sneaking kisses which got Jesse all giggly.

I think this guy was done.

The girls had to really search for their eggs this year.  

Jesse was done.

 More pictures coming soon.

nine year old

She's nine!  We celebrated our girl last Thursday with the customary gift in the morning.  Abigail predicted getting clothes as her first gift of the day.  She was right.  The only thing I didn't predict was the light coating of snow on our picnic table when we woke up.  But she still chose to wear her capri pants to school.

 

Abigail chose sushi for her supper out.  I love my girl!  We invited Grandma and Grandpa and were thrilled that Uncle Dan and Rachelle had flown in from BC the night before.  What a treat to have so many special people share this meal with us.

Lots of california roll for this nine year old.

When returned to our house for presents and cupcakes.  First there was some music making.

And tickling.

Then Abigail opened up the rest of her gifts.  She loves receives notebooks.

She was very appreciative.

Nathaniel was not loving the blue nail polish she had just opened.

And this gift was at the top of Abigail's list.  The movie Tangled.

Awaiting the ice cream cupcakes.

It was a great day for Abigail.  She shared later that she loved her day at school.  Her teacher asked her to be the assistant Easter Bunny and put all her classmates Easter baskets out.  She felt so special to be chosen for this job.  All the chocolate from school was a bonus.  Plus it was pizza day.  Add sushi, gifts and cupcakes - it's a hands down perfect day for a new nine year old.