It was a lot of fun this year to get into some of those silly little traditions people do for Easter now that Joshua is big enough. We know the real reason we celebrate, and we are so very thankful for our Savior, Jesus Christ, who died and rose again for us. We tried our best to help Joshua understand that. But we also wanted him to have a chance to participate in all of the fun things we got to do growing up. Joshua participated in three Easter egg hunts this year. Well he really only got to do two of them. Nichole had one for the kids at her house, and I got to go and be a part of it. Joshua was so cute as he picked up every egg and declared it was "ellow". He's gotten better with his colors since then, but we're still working on them. Side note....he now names most things as red first before he'll tell you what color it actually is.
Nichole's neighbor saw us out there and showed up in a full out bunny costume. The kids loved it, but we adults were a little shocked that her neighbor actually had a bunny costume on hand!
I couldn't believe Joshua was actually willing to hug the bunny....
This picture doesn't show their excitement.....
On Good Friday we headed to Albemarle for the day to celebrate Easter and Grandma's birthday. Joshua enjoyed playing with all four of his cousins. We also got to enjoy some time with Ma and Poppy (Derek's grandparents) where Poppy has been staying at the rehab center. We had an Easter egg hunt for the kids at the rehab center, which was loads of fun, and we also treated Grandma to lunch for her birthday.
Joshua and Hudson on the hunt for some eggs
After our hunt.....unfortunately they were not willing to look at the camera
David, Pamela, Hudson and Katy
Tabitha, Riley and Taylor....we missed Ben since he wasn't able to come
Grandma and GaGa with all of their grand babies
On Sunday morning we put a little basket together for Joshua. Derek made a trail of eggs from Joshua's bedroom to his basket in the living room. Most mornings Joshua is happy as a lark once we rescue him from his crib, but on this morning he was ill as a hornet. He did NOT want down, nor did he want to follow the trail of eggs. We had to pull everything out of his basket for him to show him there was actually some great stuff in there including some M&Ms! After he got a few of those in him he was much better. We enjoyed an awesome service at church and then followed it up with an egg hunt out in the courtyard. That is the one he kind of missed and didn't get to participate in. Since our church is a satellite campus and we meet in a high school we have to break down and pack everything up afterwards. By the time Derek and I finished packing up in our rooms we serve in and got Joshua out there all of the eggs were gone. They had chocolate in them, so the kids wasted no time collecting them. A little girl was kind enough to give Joshua one of her's, which he could have cared less about. We ate Wendy's for our big Easter lunch. That's what we get for not living close to family to enjoy a nice meal with.
Joshua standing there with no eggs and none to be found......:(
And the new picture of our family up in the right hand corner is our family picture from Easter.
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