Happy, Happy Easter!

Happy Easter to all of our friends and family!  We hope you are all enjoying a nice dinner together.   We will join in our hearts from afar.  

We have been enjoying our four day (yes!) Easter weekend so far.  Even though Eric has spent most of Friday and Saturday grading essays I'm sure he now wishes he hadn't assigned, we've been able to do some fun Easter activities. 

Friday we were hoping to start the weekend out with a trip to a petting zoo at the mall, but tons of wet, icky snow with wind kept us home all day.  We hid Easter eggs a few times inside the house; Annabel has been insisting to keep the plastic eggs separated.  I guess she wants to hunt for twice as many!  I was hoping to find a large, organized egg hunt, but there didn't seem to be any in town.  Maybe next year I'll have to organize my own.  

This kept her entertained for quite awhile, but I'm not sure how safe it was as the main reason we were washing the eggs was due to them having an odor of gas or tar or something!

Playing at church before the musical last weekend.  She is really interested in letters lately.

Displaying one of her new long bibs made by Grandma Paula.  She requests this one saying "E-I-E-I-O," because the bottom has a barn on it. 

  We made homemade play dough.  It brought back memories of my parents making it for us.  She is sporting her new jammers she received for Easter from Grandma Paula.

She knows how to double-fist for Easter....egg in one hand, carrot in the other!

Saturday we greatly enjoyed a puppet show.  It was a half hour showed called Magical Munsch, based on the children's books by Robert Munsch.  We were unfamiliar with them since the Canadian author's stories seemed to have not crossed the border (except for I Will Love You Forever).  It's a wonder, because they are really funny!

The center of her egg is "re-row." ("blub, blub" bib made by Grandma).  Blub-blub is how Annabel says fish.

We left for church way later than planned, even though we were up fairly early for the 11 am service.  Does this happen to anyone else?  At the last minute we were scouring the house for Annabel's shoes, only finding one. 

Annabel liked looking for her Easter basket, even if we practically had to tell her where it was.  I look forward to watching her surprised expression every year.  So fun!!

We are now having a relaxing afternoon (actually, I have been making Raspberry Jello dessert {and, no, it is not a salad} for over an hour with no end in sight....how many steps are there?!! Mix this, then let that set for 30 min, then make this and let that set on that for another 30 min....I'll be lucky if it's all set by evening)  Our pastor and his family invited us to join their family Easter.  His children are all around our age and have little ones, so it should be a nice evening.