Happy Easter!

Happy Easter to everyone! I hope you all had a wonderful day and were able to enjoy it with friends and family! I was anxious to download the pictures from our weekend, and thought while I was on here, I would go ahead and post for the week!
Our family had a wonderful week/weekend! Adam and I were on Spring Break from school (Wednesday through tomorrow) so we have had a good mix of relaxing and getting things done around the house! We were finally able to get out our deck furniture and do yard work, plus we cleaned out the fire place for the season, cleaned out our closets and dressers (including Ella's AGAIN!) and rewarded ourselves with a day in Richmond (just the two of us!)
Ella has had lots of excitement as well! Friday, the day we were in Richmond, she got to stay with her Grannie (Adam's grandmother) - they both really enjoy playing together! Later that evening we all went out to do some fun Easter activities. We went to the mall to see the Easter Bunny, but Ella was so scared (and truly I can't say that I blame her) - she didn't cry, but she let us know that she was definitely not interested in getting anywhere close! SO, we did something even more fun, which was go to the farm store and look at the baby chicks and ducks!! They were so cute, and Ella is becoming quite the animal lover, so she really had fun! Actually, what she really enjoyed was kicking the side of the metal pin they were in, and then watching them scatter (poor things - I didn't let her do that but once or twice)! That's what she is doing in that first picture!

Then Saturday, I was in charge of the Easter egg hunt at church, so Ella came along and actually had a lot of fun looking for eggs with the other kids! We showed her what to do, and I think she ended up with about 5 eggs in her basket! This is only 1 of the MANY pictures I took of her hunting eggs.

Then this morning we woke up to find that the Easter Bunny had come to visit! Ella was so surprised to see the trail of eggs the Easter Bunny left down the hall leading to her basket (sounds familiar doesn't it Nana? :-))!

When she got to the end of the trail she saw her basket and this was the look on her face! She had a good time looking through it, but mostly carrying around the eggs!

Then of course was church, where we (well the adults anyway) remembered what the real reason for the day was! We went to a very nice service and then had lunch with Adam's side of the family. We are so blessed to have such wonderful families (on both sides)! Ella is so lucky to be surrounded by so many people that love, support and care for her!

That should be all for now! We have a big weekend coming up - DMB concert, family portraits and one of Ella's friends will be turning 3!