Happy Easter!?!?

We made snow angels. We ice skated, skied, and went sledding! We did just about everything you can do in this cold weather. Ok, so the snow didn't pack well enough to make a snowman-it does take SPECIAL snow, you know. I can give that up. Everyone in Ohio is whining and complaining about the bad weather and how they're ready for spring. Just for the record, I'm one of them!

Today we celebrated Easter with family and as we sat around the table with all the extensions so it could hold all the platters of food we gorged upon, (seriously, we could have charged money for a buffet, complete with 2 meats, 5 different kinds of desserts, and tons more to fill in the cracks like casseroles and salads and potatoes) anyhow....we look out and it's snowing. I'm the type of person who dreams of snow at Christmas. It's just not complete if there's no snow. But Easter???? Ummmmm...no, thank you! It doesn't matter that Easter is early this year and we won't have another Easter this early for another two hundred something odd years. Whoopdy-do! Who cares? (How many of those emails did you get?) The point is...there is not to be snow on Easter.....unless I'm in Florida for spring break! Then I think it's like poetic justice.

On a happier note, the girls had a great day! We started off with waking up to Easter Bunny baskets. Zoe exclaimed, "Mommy, that was so nice of the Easter Bunny!" Then we waited to open up their to gifts from Mommy and Daddy until Daddy got home from his 12 mile jog.





We hustled everyone through breakfast so we could make it to the church in time for the Easter egg hunt where Zoe found the PRIZE egg in her age group (in the play kitchen microwave-the hunt was held indoors due to the weather - see above!) Sammy enjoyed the candy immensely! They both were sporting WWJD? rings. The girls went to Sunday School while we attended church.






Off we went back home and none of us remembered letting the dog out before church so we let her out and loaded up the car. Off to Grammy and Papa's house for the day! Talked to Grandma on the phone on the way there. Tried to call Grandma in FL. The girls had fun playing with their cousins and eating chocolate eggs and bunnies and Easter cookies like there was no tomorrow. I kept waiting for one of them to throw up. We lucked out, but Zoe lost her Disney princess doll from the Easter Bunny somewhere at their house and we had to leave without it. She slept on the way home, but woke up upon arrival and she was overwrought. When she gets overly tired, she twists her hair around her finger and Robert brought her to the kitchen grabbing for a scissors to cut her hair off from her finger. It was purple on the tip and he was worried....understandably so....however, her fingers were only purple from the egg dyeing we did that afternoon at Grammy's house! The whole thing freaked her out and she was crying about how much her finger hurt, but she was really fine. It didn't even leave a mark! Robert thought of putting her blanket in the dryer and that seemed to help because it was extra warm and snuggly. Sammy, on the other hand, was awake all the way home and sang "Happy Birthday" and kept saying "Cheese" while she pretended to get her picture taken. That was a riot. I thought maybe I would be able to just put her straight to bed, but she asked ever so sweetly, "Book?" so we picked one off the floor and read it. Then she put her forehead to mine and looked right into my eyes and started jabbering, which made me laugh (not exactly what you're supposed to do when your trying to calm your kids down for bed) but it didn't matter. I kissed her goodnight, put her down and she didn't cry or fuss. I always say a little prayer of thanks up whenever this happens, because I truly am grateful. It's so much easier this way!

It was a good day. A great day to see everyone. Lots of laughter and catching up. All in all, it was a day of celebration and joy!