Easter!

This year we decided that we would have Easter at our house. Each year we go to my parents house and last year we went to Aaron's parents house. I thought that maybe we should do a Easter hunt in our nice big backyard.

Our day began with the kids eagerly coming down the stairs to see what was in their Easter baskets. I'm not sure that Brooke was quite sure of what to do with her basket except pull out all the grass. She did enjoy eating the little marshmallow peep.


As usual, each of the kids got a book, chocolate bunny and this year a movie!


Brooke received the book called "Butterfly kisses", another Beauty and the Beast movie, hair bows, and an new dinner plate.


Reese received hair bows, a Tinker Bell painting book, lip gloss, and the movie "Pocahontas".


Garrett received a note pad, spider-man word search book, "Dolphins at daybreak" from the magic tree house series, and the movie "Wall-E".



Then we headed off to church. After church, we had lunch, and did our Easter egg hunt. We told the other two to let Brooke get a head start so she could get some eggs. She found a few on the patio and mommy helped her with the ones on the grass. At first, she didn't like picking them up off the grass and stood there waiting for me to do it. She is so the baby of the family. The other two, of course, were competing to see who could get the most eggs.

She's not sure if she wants to pick this up!


Reese finding another egg.


Garrett jumped up on the retaining wall to retrieve this egg.


Garrett yelling at Reese for getting the egg on the dog-run fence.


Then the girls had naps and my parents and brothers came over for Easter dinner. The kids had a great time and it was very low-key...just the way Aaron likes it!