A Perfect Easter

Welcome to our blog! I resisted long enough and have now accepted that a blog really is the best way to share our family adventures with loved ones! And what better time to kick it off than with Easter weekend! It is a slightly long-ish first entry, but if you know me and my scrapbooks....narrowing down pictures is SOOOOO hard! I don't have all of the fancy do-dads yet either, but those are coming! And let me just take a moment to thank sweet Heather for all of the hand-holding and advice in getting this started! So here we go...
Our ingredients for a perfect Easter:

1. Hunt Easter Eggs with one of your bestest friends, McKenna! We had a perfect McKenna Day that started with Caleb cheering her on at her first T-Ball game. They then got all fueled up at Gattitown before heading out to Pizza Hut Park for a massive Easter Egg Hunt. They got tons of eggs, pictures with the Easter Bunny and more marshmallow eggs than we will ever eat (anyone want some?)!

2. Dye Easter Eggs with more of our best buddies on Good Friday. Caleb had his friends Trevor, Tatum, Leah and Emily over to dye Easter Eggs (okay, so Emily just watched). We knew it was off to a great start when they got to watch a construction crew repair a neighbour's sidewalk first. Much fun!

3. Easter Eggstravaganza with Uncle Matt! On Saturday we drove out to Uncle Matt and Aunty Laurel's church for their big Easter fun-fest! Caleb hunted for eggs, played in the petting zoo, played EVERY carnival game, had his face painted (with his favourite animal, a flamingo, in his favourite colour, yellow), and bounced his little heart out! Even Grammy and Pop joined us for some of the fun. Caleb's favourite part was winning a whistle....perhaps not our favourite part though....

4. Easter Egg and Resurrection Cookies! One of our little family traditions is to dye Easter Eggs together and then do resurrection cookies the night before Easter. This year we even had a Jesus figure that he wrapped up and laid in a tomb. He didn't want to leave Jesus in there overnight; we love our compassionate little dude!

5. Easter at home! We have waited six years to celebrate Easter at home and we were so excited to finally get the chance! And it really was perfect! Caleb's first question in the morning was about his resurrection cookies and he was so overjoyed to go out to the kitchen and find that Jesus wasn't in the tomb anymore! We had a perfect day full of yummy food with Grammy, Pop and ChaiQi! Happy Easter Everyone!

P.S. Grammy and Pop achieved the impossible with their Easter basket...which included the Play-Doh ice-cream shop. Caleb sat and played with it for, no joke, over an hour! A three year old entertained with one toy for over an hour! Seriously! Who thought that was possible? For all my friends with preschoolers....GO GET ONE!