Easter 2014

Easter Egg dying and decorating - Lily kept repeating, "This is the best day ever!". She made one for each person in her family, one for baby elephant and one for our friend, baby Elise. They lasted a few days before they started to stink and we had to toss them. Until then, Lily and Lucy loved to cradle their eggs. 

Jordan did the Easter basket purchasing this year and I think he did a stellar job. He even was sweet and purchased a "Princess Adventure" book - a collection of stories of the princesses on adventures. He knew when he bought it that we would be reading and rereading the stories over and over - but this is what makes him such a great pink daddy - he bought the book because he knew it would make the girls giddy. 

With our having to leave for church at 7:30 am put a damper on the Easter egg hunt and baskets - after church we went for a walk down to the pond, but right before we walked out the door, Jordan needed to use the "restroom" - the girls and I waited downstairs while Jordan hid the eggs and brought out the Easter baskets so that when we came back from our walk, Surprise! The Easter bunny had come while we were gone!

The Easter egg hunt was extremely noncompetitive. Each Lucy and Lily took their time getting the eggs. Lily chose to open each egg after finding it - Lucy soon caught on and started to round up the eggs as fast as she could - while Lily really didn't care that her little sister collected more eggs than herself.  

Of course as soon as the eggs were all found, the next important task was to read half the stories in the book - while Lucy sneakily ate all the candy in her eggs.