Easter fun!!

I am so happy to be back updating the blog!!! It has been way too long and I have missed my new hobby!! Our computer had a virus and my brother had been fixing it in Chicago (where he lives) - and I just got it back this weekend when he was home for Easter. I am SO happy to have it back!! Thank you for fixing it, Matt!! Anyways, enough about that. I have way too many pictures to backtrack with blogging, so I'm just going to start up with our most recent excitement - EASTER! We have kept very busy the past few weeks leading up to Easter. We visited the Easter bunny at the mall with some friends, made Easter cupcakes, mixed some sprinkles together to make "Bunny Dust", did some Easter crafts, dyed eggs, and of course went on Easter egg hunts! Brett has been so happy and just LOVED all the activities, and I loved them too!! I love birds, nests, bunnies, eggs - anything to do with spring and nature - so I have to admit that Easter is definitely one of my favorite holidays!!! So don't be surprised if you happen to stop by in the next few weeks and I STILL have my Easter decorations up :-) They might just be up all summer. HA!

The Lokers came over Saturday afternoon for an Easter egg hunt, and let me just tell you, we could not have asked for a more beautiful day!! It was perfect and the kids had A BLAST. It was fun to watch the different styles Brett and Abby had when looking for the eggs. Abby was off like a flash picking up as many eggs as she could find, as fast as she could. Brett, on the other hand, insisted on picking up each egg he found and opening it up right then and there to see what was inside. And if there was chocolate, he would quickly stuff it in his mouth while in the meantime Abby had collected 5 more eggs during this process! HA! Fortunately Abby was a good sharer and Brett was able to get a few more eggs when they sat down to go through their stash :-)

We took advantage of having the Lokers over and actually got a family picture! Thanks, Laura!

"I see an egg, mommy!"

Can you spy the egg?

Stopping to examine the goods.

Another stop along the way :-)

Time to sit down and look at all of our loot!

Like I said, Abby was a good sharer!

Lately Brett has really shown interest in Jackson and loves to make him smile. Here he is sitting next to his little buddy making silly faces and talking to him. Watching these interactions just melts my heart!!

Can you believe how cute these two are?! I just LOVE watching them grow up together!!

I think I will have to frame one of these!

Saturday evening we went outside so Brett could sprinkle the bunny dust on our sidewalk. This helps the Easter bunny find your house and Brett took it very seriously, making sure to cover the whole walkway :-)

Looks like the Easter bunny found our house! Here are some pictures from Easter morning :-)

Look what the Easter bunny left on the back porch! Legos!!

After breakfast we went over to my parents house where another Easter eggs hunt awaited along with ANOTHER Easter basket. He wasn't spoiled or anything :-)

Another family picture....YEAH!

Easter weekend was so busy we never got a chance to dye Easter eggs - so we did a little more celebrating Monday morning :-) Brett was extra careful with the eggs and didn't even break one!

This is Brett's "silly face" that he loves to make these days -- cracks me up!!

After dying eggs we spent the rest of the day playing with all the little things the Easter bunny brought. It was another fun day!!! Happy (belated) Easter everyone!!!