Easter Pics

Daddy helping Conall dye eggs -- I was helping Caitlin but paused to take a few photos

Dyeing eggs at Pop Pop's

Daddy helping Conall dye eggs

The baskets the bunny left for the kids. Aunt Amy and I decorated Caitlin's last year.

Caitlin getting into the chocolate

Caitlin in the chocolate again.

Caitlin showing off the eggs she found.

Conall and his three dyed eggs. He's so proud he found the ones he wanted!

The kids hunting for Easter eggs in their Jammie's and tennis shoes. They DID not want to wait to get dressed.

The Easter bunny left Conall some seed packets.

Na Na helping Caitlin "hunt" eggs at her house

Conall hunting eggs at Na Na's.

Conall with his "loot".

Po Po reading Easter stories to Caitlin.

Na Na's bunny cake -- she made it with chocolate instead of coconut because the kids won't eat coconut. They aren't spoiled, are they?

Neighborhood Egg Hunt

Last Saturday, we went to our neighborhood egg hunt. We love going every year because it is a small egg hunt. We know a lot of the kids and parents. The big kids help the little ones out. There aren't any lines and every kid walks away with some candy. And, you hunt the eggs, put them in your basket, go open the eggs and get the candy/prize certificate out of the egg and then return the eggs to the organizers for use again next year. It is so much more enjoyable than the citywide or large church egg hunts!

Before the hunt -- this is just the basketball court

Conall and Caitlin getting ready for the hunt

Ready, set ... Conall with Kanton and August (boys next door)

The boys and Caitlin ready to go

Daddy was still in Atlanta on Saturday morning, so Aunt Amy went with us this year. We had a wonderful time. The kids used some plastic baskets I got them the day before for the hunt, instead of their nice "Easter bunny" baskets. They were able to fill them up without spilling too many eggs and we didn't have to worry about the nice baskets getting dirty. The egg hunt didn't have as many participants this year as in past years, possibly due to the cold, cloudy weather. That meant lots of eggs for every kid -- you'll see what I mean from the pictures -- our baskets were overflowing and there were still eggs on the ground! Every child had the same experience, which is so much better than not enough eggs for every child!

Caitlin and mommy picking up eggs

Mommy helping Caitlin find eggs

Conall with an overflowing basket

Emptying the eggs to get the candy out and return the eggs

Caitlin with her first piece of candy

Slide show of egg hunt in Easter outfits

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Hunting Eggs in Easter Outfits

Na Na and Po Po invited us to a picnic lunch and Easter egg hunt yesterday. Unfortunately it rained, so we had lunch and the Easter egg hunt inside. I don't think the weather mattered though -- everyone had just as much fun inside.

The Easter Bunny left Conall and Caitlin a note and a partially chewed carrot. He also put jelly beans in the butter -- which made Conall want to put butter on his food!

Here's my favorite photo of the kids -- Conall handing Caitlin an Easter egg. It is really sweet, but of course, as soon as she didn't take it, he put it in his basket. I'll post a slide show with more of the photos later.

Hunting Eggs in Jammies

The kids were up late Saturday night, so they slept a little later Sunday morning. Of course, Conall was the first person awake in the house (no surprise there), but Caitlin slept much later. So, the kids hunted eggs separately at home. The weather was stormy, cold and rainy, so the Bunny had to leave the eggs inside this year.

The baskets the Bunny left

Egg decorating

Uncle Ken came down yesterday and helped us dye Easter eggs. I don't know who had more fun -- the two little kids or the two big kids (Uncle Ken and daddy).

Caitlin "ordering" how she wanted her eggs dyed.

The kids having fun dyeing eggs

Uncle Ken helping Conall dye his eggs

Easter Egg Hunt

We went to our neighborhood Easter Egg Hunt this weekend. Conall had a soccer game before the egg hunt and we barely made it to the egg hunt on time. We didn't have time to change his clothes -- so we went in soccer gear, mud and all.

Conall has gotten past his lackadaisical approach of past years -- he was an egg hunting machine. He was gone and had a bag full of eggs before I knew it. Caitlin wasn't quite sure what to do at first, but figured it out pretty quickly. She even had some older kids help her put eggs in her basket.

We saw several families and kids that we knew and the kids had a great time without being pushed, elbowed, or trampled by anyone. I really love our annual neighborhood egg hunt!

Family Week at School

Conall's class is celebrating and learning about their families this week. Last week, they asked us to send a photo of our family and to identify the family members in the photos by their full names. The teacher said they'd leave the photos up in the classroom all year.



We sent the latest family photo we have -- from Easter (some of the moms today were talking about how their most recent family photos were over a year old, so I no longer feel bad). We took the photo at Pop Pop's (my dad's) on the front steps. I showed Conall what photo we were sending and he and I talked a little bit about where we were, what we were doing that day, etc. before he took the photo to school.



At his school's Open House tonight, we saw the photo along with the information they'd transcribed from Conall. Here's what he told them about the photo (pictured below) "This is a picture of us at Pop Pop's. His last name is Leo. It is mommy, daddy, me and my sister, who is only a little big." Stu and I laughed and laughed at his comments. It was just so Conall.