Easter 2009

So, frequent blogging from us means once every two weeks, if you're lucky. And, you are lucky this week, because there was a major holiday, which means we had to bust out the camera.



We had a busy Easter weekend. We started by dyeing eggs on Saturday morning. I had Madeleine and Tori help with the set-up process, which was maybe a mistake. Tori took two color tablets, and instead of just dropping them in the water, she held them in her fingers under the water so they dissolved in her fingers. Of course, this served to dye her fingers brighter than any of the eggs we did. She was NOT happy with this development. She cried, she made us wash her hands multiple times, she tried to suck or wipe the color off, all to no avail. If you click to expand the picture below, you can see a tiny tear drop still stuck to her cheek, and every finger of her left hand is bright orange.



She didn't last long with the egg dyeing. She just chucked the eggs in the cups of dye and then left crying to go take a nap. Madeleine, on the other hand, turned out to be an egg dyeing pro.



Later in the day we took a trip down to the annual Goodman Easter party. We always do an Easter egg hunt with her extended family, and this year was no exception. Even in the continual drizzle that never let up all day. The kids didn't care at all, though. Tori seemed partial to the real eggs, while Madeleine got quite a bit of candy, which she was obviously thrilled about.




On Sunday, Jenny and I had to speak in church, so we spent both our Friday and Saturday night writing talks. Speaking on Easter Sunday is tough, we decided. You get people out to church who aren't usually there, so you feel especially pressured to give a moving discourse. And, it's not like you have to speak on the single most important event in history of humanity. Oh wait, yes you do. So there's some more added pressure. We struggled a little bit through the preparation, but we made it through OK. Luckily for the girls, our speaking preparations didn't stop us from having an Easter Egg hunt in the morning before church. With her second day of egg hunts, Tori started to get the hang of it. I think she was excited; what do you think?



Madeleine enjoyed the lack of competition at our own private hunt, and made out like a bandit.



The funniest bit about Easter morning was that the Easter Bunny played a trick on the girls. Jenny's Mom gave them each a stuffed animal inside of a plush, zip-up egg. Of course, they had to sleep with them on Saturday night. Well, the Easter Bunny came in their sleep and stole the stuffed animal out of the egg, to hide with their Easter baskets! Isn't the Easter Bunny clever? Well, it didn't work out quite as expected, as we were awakened at 7:00 AM to the sound of Madeleine bawling in bed that her stuffed bunny was missing from its egg! Oops. It sure seemed like a good idea at the time...Luckily, the girls found their baskets and their plush toys pretty quickly thereafter.



After church, we went over to my parents house for our THIRD Easter egg hunt of the weekend. With a little help from Grandpa and Uncle Clint, the girls found all of the eggs.



As a result of all of these hunts, we are up to our eyeballs in chocolate. This is not good when we're trying to get ready to go on a vacation that will include bathing suits. All in all, we had a good Easter. Our candy supply ought to last us until the next one.