An Easter Weekend to Remember

Our first Easter in Erie couldn't have turned out any better. The kids had the entire week off from school, so if I had been a conscientious blogger; I would have chronicled the entire week. But because we didn't really do anything too exciting and because the first picture I took was on Saturday; we will have to settle for blogging Easter weekend.

Liv had been asking us to paint Easter eggs all week, so on Friday afternoon; we finally relented. We even got Lex to participate, although she did not appreciate getting her picture taken.

Ang took Liv to the new Hannah Montana movie on Saturday morning because it sold out before they could get tickets to the Friday night show, and Liv was EXTREMELY dissappointed. While they were gone I decided to hide Easter eggs in the yard because Liv had been begging me all week long for an Easter egg hunt. As you can see from the pictures, we made it a family affair and several of the girls did not look like they were enjoying the beautiful Erie weather, but Liv was in HEAVEN.

On Saturday night, the girls and I decided to watch a movie together. The difficulty was trying to decide which movie to watch. We looked through all of our DVD's and on-demand movies, and argued for nearly an hour. Liv wanted "Ice Age 2" or "Bridge to Terabithia". I wanted "Old Yeller" or "Where the Red Fern Grows". Lex didn't care, until me or Liv would make a suggestion, and then she did not want to watch any of our movies. We finally settled on "Independence Day" because it was on the regular TV and required no effort to watch. As you can see from the picture, we were all VERY tired from the days activity.

We told Liv that she had to wait until 7am to wake up on Easter morning. At our house, the expectations for the Easter Bunny rival those for Santa Claus. Liv was up at 7:05, but Bella was the first one up and had already found her basket by the time Liv came to our room. This is a picture of one of her presents.




Liv found her parents baskets in the closet and then she set off to find hers. After the third try, we managed to get the teenager out of bed, but she refused to do any searching. Liv found Baby's basket up in the office and then she located Lex's basket in the downstairs closet. Lex was THRILLED.

After searching for about a half an hour, Liv was starting to wonder if the Easter Bunny had forgot to leave her anything (I don't know where she would have got that idea?). Lex made the suggestion that she should look out in the garage and the rest is history.

Lex got a bunch of clothes and candy. Liv got several things from Build-a-bear, a new Nintendo DS and a game. After the festivities of the morning, Ang made one of the most spectacular dinners of all time. I wish the picture could do it justice, but it just may have been "as good as it gets".

Happy Easter to all and to all a good night.