Eggstra Special

To me, Easter is like Christmas (minus all the lights); which made this weekend extra fun!

Although Tenley had already taken her picture with the Easter Bunny, Karina and Sofia invited us to go to Ethel M's for some Easter fun Saturday afternoon - Easter Bunny pics (for free might I add!!), face paintings, decoracted cactus gardens, art, music, food, etc.... We couldn't resist!

Since T hogged the Easter Bunny last time we thought it'd be fun/cheesy to get all of us this time:

The weather was total perfection and we had fun hoppin' around the garden with our lil' bunny:

The girls played in the garden:

T had fun poking out the M&M's eyes:

It was lots of fun and we'll definitely make this an Easter tradition.

When we got home, T and Daddy were full of cuteness:

Then, some bunny decided to sit up for the first time!!!!

She's so strong that she was even moving while sitting up:

She sat up for so long that I even caught it on video!!

This was after about 2 minutes of picture taking, too:

After that milestone, we dyed Easter eggs and T wanted to show off some more:

(Don't worry Daddy was right there on stand-by!)

The finished product:

We even made these tasty treats:

Growing up, my family always hid our Easter baskets so I wanted to carry on that tradition with Tenley. That night I had Ed hide her Easter basket so her and I could search for it in the morning. Then we left out carrots for the Easter Bunny and went to bed.
(See, it's almost just like Christmas... so much fun!) 


I woke up early to cook the ham and this is how my two sleepy heads were cuddled up:

When they woke up, T and I found her Easter basket hidden on the side on the couch behind Pearl's toys:

Then came the fun part... GIFTS from the Easter Bunny!!

Daddy read Tenley her card...

...and she looked at all her new gifts.

Pooh and Piglet:

Tons of books and movies:

Then she opened more gifts from her Grandma and Grandpa D:

She loved ripping the paper and playing with the ribbon:

Look how good she is at opening presents already:

She even wanted to eat the wrapping paper:

(Silly Girl)

She was such a pro towards the end:

She loved her new snail crawler:

The Easter Bunny must've really thought she was a good girl:

(Grandma Cathy sent her gifts too, but we opened those earlier in the week. Pics will be in another post!)

It was so much fun watching her attempt to open presents. She's so determined at everything she tries. When she tries something and can't do it she squeals and grunts so it was super funny to watch her see a toy under the paper, but not be able to get it just yet. I'm sure she'll have the whole 'opening of the presents' thing down by her first birthday!

After we finished with presents, Tenley put on her Easter dress...

...and we headed to the park to enjoy the beautiful day!

Daddy even flew her pretty butterfly kite from the Easter Bunny to entertain us:

She had fun watching Daddy and putting her piggies in the grass:

Then we did a mini Easter photo shoot with T and these are my favs:

 

(Hope you like the pics!!)

Although we were sad we didn't get to spend the holiday with our families in Ohio, we were determined to not let it get us down and we had such a great Easter. We didn't get to actually "see" our families, but we did FaceTime with some of them. Tenley got to model her Easter dress and pink bunny ears for everyone and show off her talented walker skills. It was nice and I think it made their Easter much more special.

(I don't know what people did before Apple - Thanks, Steve Jobs!!)

No matter where the 3 of us are in the world we always have the best time together; which is what is most important to us. This Easter was great and Tenley sure did make it eggstra special!

Hope everyone had a wonderful Easter!! :)