Easter Fun

The girls were super excited about Easter, they asked for days if it was time for the Easter Bunny to come yet.  The night before Reagan had been eating a piece of bread and had left it on the coffee table, after she went to sleep I threw it away, she was so excited the next morning that the Easter Bunny had eaten it!  She keeps talking about how the Easter Bunny ate her bread and I didn't tell her any different.

They came downstairs and brought back up the baskets and put them on our bed, they opened up the hollow chocolate bunnies and immediately had chocolate all over the bed!  Reagan of course ate as much candy as she could as quickly as possible, Payton loved the little gel pens in her basket.

Payton slid down the wet slide and flew off the end after she got the eggs off the fort at the top, she was cracking up!

After Church we went to Bryan Park and had a picnic lunch with Tung's Mom and Grandma, the azalea garden there is so beautiful, I love these pictures of the girls with all the pretty azalea's behind them.

Governor's Egg Hunt

We were able to go to the Governor's Egg Hunt this year at the Capitol.  It was a lot of fun.  They had a lot of activities for kids and of course egg hunting.  All the eggs had tootsie rolls inside, or stickers, we weren't lucky enough to get any prize eggs. It was crazy with everyone rushing for the eggs at once, Tung grabbed Payton and took off and I took Reagan, they had age groups timed out but after the Governor spoke he said "let the egg hunt begin" and everyone ran!  A Times Dispatch photographer took a lot of pictures of the girls and they ended up in a video they made and put on their website.

Reagan drawing a picture in a card for the USO to give to the troops.

Payton getting her face painted.

I think the Governor looks funny with all the mascots behind him.

I found one!  Then I had to tell her to just keep grabbing or she wasn't going to get anymore than that one!

With their buddy Nutzy

Their first ever picture with the Easter Bunny.

On the hill in front of the Capitol.

Easter

Reagan dying eggs, she was gentle during the dye process, not during the hunting process

Payton had to dye more than 1 egg at a time.

checking to see if her egg was done yet

Running to go find the first pink eggs they saw under the playground

Love the outfit, Nutzy shirt from the Easter basket, pj pants and boots

It's odd for Easter to be so late this year, I always remember having to wear tights and sweaters with my Easter dress, not playing in the pool as our girls did today.
This morning the girls woke up before we did, they came downstairs and got into their baskets, I heard them so I peeked around the corner of the steps to see what they were doing, Payton said they needed to ask us before eating the candy, Reagan just shoved a handful of Jelly beans in her mouth!
I had already planned on hiding the eggs at night for them to find in the morning but Payton said that they needed to get their baskets ready because the Easter Bunny was going to hide the eggs for them to hunt and that he was going to hide them on their swingset.  Reagan kept saying she was going to pull the bunny's ear! We tried telling her that she wasn't going to see the bunny, that it was like Santa, but she said she was going to pull his ear.  On vacation inside the grocery store Stew Leonard's a bunny came around and saw them and gave them hugs and Reagan pulled it's ear, I guess that's why she thought she was going to get to pull the bunny's ear again!

We went to church, it was packed and a very nice service, we let the girls play in the pool some this afternoon and we spent the entire afternoon outside after Reagan took a nap.

For dinner we had shrimp cocktail to snack on, pork roast, carrots, scalloped potatoes and asparagus.  For dessert rhubarb baklava which was so very good and much cheaper than buying it, it was easy to make too, and strawberry shortcake.  The girls love when their Daddy puts the whipped cream into their mouth out of the can, that's the first thing Payton wanted when I handed her the can out of the refrigerator to take outside.  Too funny.

Great relaxing day in the beautiful weather, I even planted in my pots for my front porch and some zinnia seeds, makes it so hard to go back to work tomorrow!