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Easter Blessings

What a wonderful Easter we had. Our morning started off bright and early at the Sunrise service (and by sunrise, we mean it was dark when we got to church and the sun rose during the service.) It was so wonderful to hearing the the words from that first Easter morning as the sun is rising around us. When we got back, the kids . . . Chad, Maya, and Teagen . . . all took naps while the Easter bunny made his visit. The kids opened their baskets and then we were off to Papa & Gigi's house for a very fun day of eating, chatting and of course the annual, and very competitive, Easter egg hunt! We still have to remind the older kids . . . Sheena (age 24) and Roxane (age 15) . . . to only look for the hard ones! The kids played outside with the neighborhood kids and we even got to take a dunk in the pool.

The reason why the only picture of the girls in their Easter dresses is the professional one is because my batteries dies before they got into their dresses. We had a good friend/neighbor come to the house to take generation pictures which included the great-grandparents, grandparents, girls, and great-grand children. (Our friend/photographer is so talented. Check out her website at JenniferCochranPhotography.photoreflect.com) We will show those pictures off when we get them. So needless to say the dresses had to stay in prime condition for the pictures.

Here are some pictures from our day.

Maya on the hunt

Teagen's smile

Taylor found an egg under Woody the dog

It's a baby choo choo train. Watch out, Teagen, Cooper might think you are a teething toy!

Nap Time

Yesterday Maya had a hard time taking a nap. We had just gone with her class on a fieldtrip to go see the movie "Horton Hears a Who". (Fabulous movie- by the way). I think she was just still so excited about riding the "big kid bus" and being with all her friends. I'm sure the sprite, M&M's and popcorn didn't have anything to do with it. Anyways, she finally fell asleep. When I went in to wake her up this is what I saw.

That bump in the bottom right corner is Maya about to fall off the bed.

This is her as she is falling.

And she's down for the count!

"Hey, what happened??"

Bed head!

And of course I happened to take some snapshots of Teagen sitting in her bouncer watching me bake! It's just too cute not to add.

The Easter Bunny Visit on St. Patty's Day

Today we took the journey to the mall to see the all exciting EASTER BUNNY! We first had to to get Teagen's Easter dress. I have been looking and looking for dresses for the girls and I'm am so dissappointed in the selection this year. Either they are just a cute sundress or they are outrageously expensive. And of course I'm the mommy who wants them to match. We finally found something for Teagen and I thought I should look for something for myself while we where there. Maya is a pretty well behaved little girl, but when she knows she's going to be able to do something, she asks every 3 seconds if it's time. So the ENTIRE time we were shopping all I heard was, "can we go see the Easter bunny now?" . . . "Is it time yet to go see the Easter bunny?" . . . "We're going to go see the Easter bunny now, right?" . . . and on and on and on it went. I KNEW she was SO excited to see the Easter bunny and thought she'd run right up to him, give him a big hug and sit right on his lap. As she got up there she decided that she didn't want to sit on his lap but rather next to him. We had to literally move her closer because she was sitting as far as she could away from him. She cracks me up. We were the only ones there so we were able to take our time. oOnce we got Maya all situated the boy (this kid seriously couldn't have been more than 18 years old) who was taking the pictures just kept clicking away. The girls were so good just smiling away. As we were leaving Maya decided that the Easter bunny should be her new best friend and said good-bye to him about 50 times. What an adventure!

Photo Shoot

Maya thought it would be a fun idea to take some pictures of Teagen today. After a lot of begging and a lot of waiting she finally got her chance. Some images are dark and hard to see because we haven't perfected the art of light . . . and staying out of it! Here is the outcome!

Sweet Prayer Hands

Okay, is she in deep prayer or sleeping?? I just had to capture this precious thing Teagen does. She has done it since she was born and I LOVE it! She truly is a gift from God and we are so blessed to have her.