Easter and my 30th birthday!

I decided to post all these pictures together because I am so far behind!! Here we are the day before Easter dying our Easter eggs. Each year we sit in the same place with the same towel and this year Lucy was able to dye all the eggs herself! I was so proud of her!

Later that day we had our third annual Easter Egg Hunt with Luke Mendenhall, Lucy's friend. This year it was at his grandparents house and they had the BEST things in the eggs. They had tons of toys ( some specifically for girls, or boys) and even ones with money!

Trying not to smile. This face happens a lot lately when we are out in public. She is showing that she found her first egg.

Reading the outside of the egg, most eggs were labeled with either "Luke" or "Lucy" on them, so if they found one for the other child, they had to go give it to them.

Here Lucy was giving one of Luke's eggs to him.

Dang closed eyes! Here is Luke and his mom Andrea. Troy grew up with Andrea and her sister Dayna.

Here they are finding what is inside ALL of those eggs!

I found this super cute activity called "Resurrection Eggs" and Andrea and I both made them for Luke and Lucy. Then the grandpas read the story of the Resurrection out of the Bible and the kids were able to open up 12 different eggs that each had symbolic items in them. This was SO much fun!

They even had pictures of the different parts of the Resurrection to show the kids. It was amazing!

Easter Morning!!! Poor Stetson's basket was filled with different snack items that he can have due to his allergies. I totally would have given him chocolate if he could of handled it!

Munching on some of his goodies from his basket.

We give them every year ( Peeps ) and always end up throwing them away! Yick!

Lucy got a plant to, well, plant, in her Easter basket, so that is just what we did that morning!

She also made plants for all of her grandparents and great grandparents. This was a lot of fun to do. We painted mason jars and then put the flowers inside.

Here she is giving my mom hers.

My mom brought over Easter gifts for the kids. No, Troy is not sleeping in this picture!

One of Stetson's gifts were sunglasses!

Lucy got the BEST gift! Stilts! I LOVED these as a kid!

On our way to church wearing Easter outfits.

After church we celebrated my birthday and Easter together at Lynda and Steve's.

The kids got their own baskets and we got one too! Tons of fun stuff! And I got a present for my birthday as well! ( sorry I don't know why this text is underlined!)

Blowing out my candles!

The week of my birthday we went to an Angels game together. Turning 30 wasn't bad AT ALL!!

Cooking with Daddy!

Lucy and Troy made decorated these cookies for Easter! I think they did a great job!

Easter Sunday 2010

Coming down the stairs to see her Easter basket.

Sooooo happy!

I love the sheer JOY on her face!

I never thought Lucy would truly like E.T. this young. Boy was I wrong. We have had to watch it everyday so far since Easter and she begs and begs to watch it again throughout the day!

The Easter Bunny brought Lucy a ball and glove! Notice the pink and white ball suspended in the air.

Lucy just HAD to watercolor with Daddy right away!

We then cooked breakfast. We do this at least one weekend day every weekend. I have been on a homemade waffle kick lately. I have the easiest recipe and they are SO much better than bisquick. Lucy always gets whipped cream on top.

We then dyed eggs. Same set up as last year except this year Lucy didn't drink the vinegary dye!

This picture is a little out of order but it is the deviled eggs I made for our Easter dinner later in the day.

Here is Lucy in her Easter outfit. I actually didn't buy anything. It was all stuff we had! Kinda nice!

Lucy and me in all my pregnant glory. Double ugh!

Lucy with my mom and I.

A family picture! Alas! We don't happen to get many of these!

We had our friends Andrea and her dad Dan over and Andrea's son Luke to do a egg hunt. It is kind of a tradition now...we did an Easter egg hunt with the two of them last year as well! I wish I knew how to link to an old post of mine, but I don't. If you look back at March or April of 09 in my old posts you will see the two of them. It is funny because last year Lucy was TOTALLY into it, and Luke TOTALLY wasn't. This year it was the exact opposite. Lucy picked up a few and then flipped her hair and looked bored and Luke had like 5 times as many eggs as Lucy and just kept running around. Funny how things change!

We tried our best to get them to pose....

And then we said something like.."Ok give hugs now." And, well, Luke was all over it and Lucy was NOT.

Troy was behind the camera. If I was, I would have gotten a ton more shots. We were laughing so hard I think he didn't think about it. Lucy kept saying, " Nooooo Luke noooooooo."

So we then told them to go play tag. They did a really good job!

So I attempted to cook a little this Easter. My in laws ( who always do the cooking ) were in Utah, so it gave me the chance to experiment. Above is a lovely vegetable tray from Cost-co...a lot of hard work there!

Rolls, deviled eggs ( the ones I made in the morning) and a wonderful salad that my mom brought. Which by the way, our guests were my mom, my brother Michael, and his girlfriend Charlene. A perfect size to experiment on!

Funeral potatoes ( warm, yummy, cheesy, artery clogging goodness) and green bean casserole. ( I have never tried making it, and I just HAD to since its a classic!)

Doesn't look to appetizing in this picture but I also made a ham! And for dessert I had planned to make strawberry shortcake but my brother brought a cute Easter cake over, so I didn't have to make the shortcake.

Lucy devouring the Easter cake. It was delish! ( and ended up turning her mouth blue- pic below)

And we forgot to decorate the eggs in the morning ( with the stickers and such ) so here is a sampling of our decoration we did that night. It was a Disney princess kit we got, hence the castle and the crown on the egg :)

I hope you all had a wonderful Easter!