taking a quick trip back to sunday, april 6th...let the easter celebrations begin!
first stop, grandpa brink's house for dinner and an easter egg hunt.
we were looking forward to this all weekend... especially on sunday morning and in the afternoon before nap. and i may or may not have bribed jackson with easter candy in order to get him to eat some lunch. you do what you can, am i right? also, i knew he wouldn't eat much dinner... for some reason, at grandpa brink's house, the is way too much fun to be had so sitting at the table and eating with 12 other people is just not appealing. i hope that i'm not alone in the my-toddler-won't-eat-anything-around-other-people situation. anyway...back to the fun that was had!
slacker sally over here forgot to get pictures of dinner (gasp!) so i took more-than-enough photos of the easter egg hunt activities. todd and jackson were out hunting and i was in charge of photos and video. the usual.
someone has to make sure these memories are captured ;)
after dinner we lined up on the deck in the backyard and the kids were off!
each grand-kid had their own eggs...grandpa brink wrote their names on their eggs so we could make sure all of the kids found the same amount. i thought that was a pretty good idea. especially since the "big kids" are so much bigger... those eggs would have been gone!
here's jackson posing for me. as much as i could get him to pose (with a hula hoop) anyway!
ugh. that poor left-over black eye. having another toddler (accidentally i might add) jump on your face really does make a mark. poor guy. he's already a bruiser!
he couldn't wait to get into those eggs...
eating candy while daddy opens more eggs for him. finding money and more candy. so much candy.
cousins. and more family.
i just love celebrating holidays with little ones. it makes them that much more sweet and even more fun than i ever imagined. seeing them experience these kinds of things...priceless. and to think... this weekend we get to do it again!
what are your favorite easter celebration activities?
My mom used to split my and my sister's eggs up by color. I would have to find all of the X colors, and she would have to find the Y colors. It was a good system!
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