Monday, April 1, 2013

Easter 2013

Happy Easter!

I was trying to work in a way to include the word "ouch" or "ow" but I'm not feeling particularly clever tonight. 
I blame Emma - she's not a sleeper and it's making me dumber. More to come on that later.

Easter was really low-key this year, but nice. We normally have large family get-togethers for Easter, but this year it was the four of us, plus my mom. My dad was visiting my Nanny for an extended stay and missed all the shenanigans. 

We got up early and went to 7:30 Mass on Easter morning. This was my brilliant idea, and it totally paid off! The girls were still a little sleepy and the Mass wasn't nearly as crowded as our usual 9:00 Easter Sunday Mass.

 Matching dresses, sleepy heads. 
After Mass the girls found their Easter baskets that the Easter Bunny hid for them the night before. Emma's chocolate kisses lasted less than 2 minutes. She may have eaten a little foil wrapping in her rush for the chocolate.
 Lexi showed a little more restraint, but declared this "the best Easter EVER!" after seeing that the Easter Bunny brought her a bunch of new books, a Disney princess game and couple of candy filled eggs.

Nana wanted to play Easter Bunny so she brought the girls some new movies. 
Lexi was VERY excited about her new Barbie movie.

 and Emma got a DVD copy of 'Rio'
We have this on the DVR and watch it all the time and she sings to songs, so when she saw the cover she started singing,


We had an Easter egg "hunt" in the front yard. 
I say "hunt" because the eggs weren't hidden, but that made it easier for the little fingers to find. 



 much like last year, Lexi only would pick up eggs of a certain color. Last year it was pink only, this year was pink, purple, and gold. 


 
The day was gorgeous. 
GORGEOUS! 
We played outside all afternoon.
 
 So back to the opening when I said I wanted to talk about "ouch":

 - Paul had gone for a run on Saturday morning, and slipped on some mud and scraped a lot of skin off his knee. He's ok, and I've had a lot of fun playing know-it-all medic. 
 - Lexi got her heels caught in the screen door and scraped her heels up Sunday night. Luckily I had purple bandaids. 
 - Emma fell down once every nine minutes. She gets her gracefulness from me, I'm afraid. 
 - I had a mole removed on Friday. It didn't hurt, but the hole in my skin is a little tender (and looks weird). 

EVERYONE got a dose of ibuprofen on Sunday night to end our lovely holiday. 


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