Well...I had hoped not to take an entire year to update my blog. But, here we are...one year later. It seems only fitting to add photos from our Easter weekend festivities, given those were my last two posts. Time sure does seem to fly...especially as I look back and reflect on the last two posts. Those sweet little chubby baby cheeks have turned into the most adorable little, kissable toddler cheeks I've ever seen!
On Wednesday, I had the priviledge to attend Brooklyn's Easter Egg Hunt at school. Those little kiddos were so cute! They ran all over the playground and most of them knew exactly what to do. Brooklyn had a blast!!! She found lots of eggs. They had really cool prizes inside. One of the eggs had a princess necklace, which you'll notice she's worn everyday since by some of the photos below. Another one had a little Pooh Bear figurine, which she has proudly cared for since Wednesday. Another one had Dora socks and a Dora braclet...and yes, they both were worn to church on Wednesday night despite the major clashing with her outfit. Her sense of style often reminds me of the old McDonald's commercial with the little girls who come into the store with all of there princess dress-up clothes on. :) The below pic is some of Brooklyn and some of her school friends just before the hunt started. Oh, I forgot to add...it was extremely cute...they all squealed with joy as their teacher Ms. Michelle opened the door to let them run out. It's was so sweeet to see how excited they became.
Saturday morning we headed out for the annual Bellevue Baptist Church Easter Egg Hunt. Pop and Nana surprised us by driving up and Aunt JuJu and the kiddos came too. Brooklyn was not to sure about the massive crowd when it was her turn to hunt eggs, but she loved tasting the treats for the few eggs she did pick-up. Brooklyn and her friend Emma sat and ate lots of candy!
Whew! Jacob has his hands full! He picked up Hadlee and Brooklyn thought he should hold her too! Emma had her face painted, but Brooklyn would wasn't to sure about that either. They all had lots of fun! Even Hadlee found a basket full of eggs.
Later that night Brooklyn helped Andy and I make a few things for lunch on Sunday. Lots of love went into these pinwheels. She had flour over every inch of her, I think. She is such a great little helper! It might be a big mess, but it's worth the memories and clean-up.
The Easter Bunny filled her basket and left it on the front porch. Here she is checking it out and looking for the eggs he hid for her at our house. The second picture makes me laugh. She had to open every egg, as she found each one to see what was inside. Needless to say, we did not make it to early service. She was so excited to find her treats!
Last year, as is usually the case, we were running late for church and decided to take "Easter Pictures" afterwards. Well, that was a disaster. A tired and hungry 1 year old (at the time) did not make for the happiest of pictures. Since we were not going to make it to early church, we had a few extra minutes. So outside we go to "try" and get a pretty picture. She's been fascinated lately with climbing on this cable box??? thing in the yard. That didn't change today, even though she had a beautiful WHITE dress on. Fortunately, it wasn't to dirty after the big rain last week. Here she is oh so proud of climing on that thing by herself. That was about the end of our photo shoot at home. We did "try" to get a few more after church again this year. The best we could do was letting her play under this little tree at church that all of the kids like to "pick the apples" from.
My pretty little princess.
