Thursday, April 19, 2012

Easter 2012

Easter this year was full of fun! We had such a great time on Saturday at the Hippity Hoppity Easter Egg Hunt, and Sunday was full of more fun and family. Please note there is not a single picture of anyone in my family in this post, I apologize for that, guess I was too busy chasing our little egg hunter around!

Sunday AM the Easter Bunny had come and left Gray a basket full of goodies at our house.
See he ate his carrots :)
Candy, puzzles, and books, what more could a girl ask for?
oh thats right, a HUGE balloon.
Gray has been obsessed with balloons since Joey took her to a friends cookout competition, not long before Easter, and was given one. They made it thru the whole cookout, the ride home and as they were unpacking the car, the balloon got away. Gray at the young age of two, doesn't quite get why daddy couldn't go get it...honey its probably to Florida by now. She talked about the balloon everyday for weeks.
Lucky she loves this one and hopefully it will help her remember her long lost balloon!
"look mommy, Easter Basket"
"Its all mine?"
"wow, this thing is stuffed!"
She is her daddies girl, she would take one thing out, look at it then organize it into a pile. The OCD has definitely started!
Sunday after nap we headed to my parents house to eat dinner with Grammy, Oompah, Baba, Papa, and our friend Tony.

Opening her "basket" from Grammy and Oompah
"thanks for the ears and the chick!"
I do need to note that this was not the only chick she got for Easter. Baba and Papa got Gray 4 REAL chicks, Eany, Meany, Miny, and Mo. They will be featured in their own blog post soon. They are living at Grammy and Oompahs (with the 12 other chicks my dad bought later that week.) Needless to say, we will have plenty of eggs to go around here before too long :)
Loving her new ears!
"These are great toys, treats, and puzzles Grammy!"
Then it was time to hunt some eggs. My mom and I may have gotten carried away. Between the two of us we filled and put out 40 eggs!!! Gray was a tad overwhelmed. After about 45 minutes she had finally collected them all with lots of breaks in-between :)

Sophie was a big helper. I think she was just hoping for a treat too!
"Look an egg!"
"Ill put it in here.."
"There we go!"
"Here's another!"
"Look mom, I look like a chicken laying an egg"
"This is fun!"
"Oh wow! There are so many more!"
Deep in thought over the best way to collect all the eggs
Gray kept a close eye on Tony, she wasn't sure she trusted him that close to her loot.
We had the best weekend celebrating such a wonderful holiday! Holidays are always full of fun, family, and food around here, what more could a little lady want?

Thursday, April 12, 2012

Hippity Hoppity Easter Egg Hunt!

We were so thrilled when we got our invitation to the Second Annual
Hippity Hoppity Easter Egg Hunt!!
A sweet friend of mine puts together this fun event at Lions Park. It is so fun to see all the kids hunt egg, and it was amazing to see how they have all grown since last year.
Speaking of last year...

Its crazy to see how little she was. It seems like it was just yesterday!

We were a tad early so we got some good play time in.
"Gray go Wee!"
yes, my daughter speaks in third person...
Gray insisted that "Daddy go Wee"
Isn't he amazing? He will do almost anything for his Gray Lady, even though he barely even fit.
"Weeee Daddy!"
"Hi Mommy"
"Hi Audrey!"
Gray was so excited to see her park friend
Look at that pose :)
We were so excited that Aiden came to join us this year. He reminded me of Ferdinand, he was just happy to sit in the grass and smell the flowers.
You are my sunshine!
Someone was doing some serious pacing waiting for the big event to get started
"I think Ill just sit down and rest until Miss Danee says we can get this party started"
She was first up to the starting line
Taking a mental note of the egg placement
A few big kids made their way ahead of Gray but since she had her mental map of the eggs, she was happy to step back
Joey kept joint that the event was more about the photo-ops then the actual egg hunt, I big to differ, but this picture does not help my case....
And their off!!
"yup, run away sucker this ones mine!"
"ooh whats inside?"
Gray wanted to open each one as she found them, luckily daddy was there to help keep her of the right path
"come on daddy, this way"
"this one looks good, now where was the next one on my list?"
"oh thats right, here by the sign"
"holy cow, the eggs are almost all gone!"
"well, guess Ill go sit down and check out my loot"
"this one has Jelly Beans inside"
Aiden really wanted to try some Jelly Beans..
"Aiden, its not my fault that you only got two eggs, you can have a few, but give me back my egg"
"sweet success!"
"one, two, three, five..yup they are all here"
Group pic time!
We had such a fun morning and cant wait until the THIRD annual event!
Thanks to the Easter Bunnys special helper Danee for hosting such a fun day!!