Easter Lunch, Egg Hunt, and a Little Gun Action!

We had our traditional Easter lunch at Dee & Pop's house after a WONDERFUL morning of worship at church.

Afterwards, the Lainey and Mills hunted eggs and then we spent the afternoon watching the boys with their toys.  Of course, us girls participated too and we aren't too bad if I should say so myself.

Here is a recap of our afternoon in pictures.  I'm warning.  There are LOTS of them!

Our sweetheart in his Easter frock

Getting his Easter present from Nana

Easter presents from Dee & Pop

Lainey opening her beach towel

Daddy and Mills acting oh so silly!

Drew and E counting the eggs before they hide them

While the dads hid the eggs, Lainey and Mills trail off through the back pasture...

and then, they run back!

He's on a roll

Lainey finds an egg by the tree

Look!

YAY!

 

Pretty Lainey and her pretty egg

Erik's mom made a dirt pile for the kids to play in and bought shovels for them. How fun?!

Mills getting ready to shoot

Lainey is ready too.  Looks like she's loading her gun.

Yes,even Mama B tried it.  You go Mama B!

Daddy showing how it's done

Aunt Whit is a sharp-shooter herself!



Dee hit her first one!

Easter Bunny

He came!  The Easter Bunny brought Mills an awesome Easter basket.  Mills woke promptly at 6:45ish and came down looking for his loot, but couldn't find it.  If it had been a snake, it would have bit him. ha!

He finally found it!

A Toy Story smart cycle game

Reese's peanut butter eggs

A ducky flashlight (that he threw a fit for from the Freckled Frog)

Reese's carrot

Lightning McQueen yo-yo

The ever so famous Peter Rabbit chocolate bunny

Chocolate cross

Bible verse book

Cars kite

Daddy showing Mills how to yo-yo

Easter Blessings

HE IS RISEN!

Happy Easter from our family to yours!

Easter Eggs

Mills, with generous help from his mommy, dyed his Eggs yesterday afternoon.  Dyeing eggs is one of my favorite Easter pastimes.  The only plastic eggs we ever used, was when Mom and I tied string to them and hung them on our tree in the front yard.  As for hunting, we never had plastic egg hunts, and I loved that!

I remember the egg hunt that we used to have every Easter Sunday afternoon at church.  Everyone was to bring a certain amount of dyed eggs.  The eggs were collected, hidden, and off we'd go!  There was always a winner, of course, but we always got our own eggs back to take home.   How I miss those days!
Mills is off to his very first egg hunt this morning.  I'm sure he will have a blast.  As for tomorrow, he and Lainey will hunt their dyed eggs at Pop and Dee's house.  A tradition started last year.

Blowing them dry!

I tried to get creative again, but I made more of a mess than anything.

FBC Preschool Easter Party

Mills got to attend his first Easter party at church yesterday during Sunday school  The kids made several crafts, listened to Ms. Sara as she narrated the Easter egg resurrection story, and then had a light breakfast.  Mills, Erik and I enjoyed it very much. 

Here, I am helping Mills make a refrigerator magnet from his hand print

Mills had a blast sticking the foam pieces together

Mills and Daddy coloring

What would we do with out the dads?  These fireman are really utilizing their rope skills as they help make cross necklaces! Ha!

Mills finding his egg for the resurrection story

Who is this guy?  I mean, he just jumped right into the picture! Ha!

J/K Erik Krull!

 

Donut holes, fruit and sausage balls = happy Mills!

Sesame Street Live

For Valentine's Day, Papa B and Gram gave Millso tickets to Sesame Street Live, "Elmo's Super Heroes."  He has never been to anything like it, so we were curious to see how he would behave since our first trip to the movies last summer was a "wash." 

Friday morning, we headed down to the forum, as the show was set to start at 10:30 am.  Mills knew he was going to see Elmo, so he was super excited.

He was sooo good!  For the first half of the show, he sat amazed and still in his daddy's lap, unable to believe what he was seeing.  We had awesome seats!  He warmed up after intermission and actually participated in the clapping and stomping with the rest of the children. 

Waiting patiently for the show to start.

Enjoying popcorn!

GOOD TIMES!

Happy Anniversary!

Today, Erik and I are celebrating our BIG 10th anniversary!  How exciting!  We have made so many memories and I am such a lucky lady to have such an awesome husband that I love with all of my heart. 
Erik is such a wonderful caring and responsible husband, father, helper, head of the household, and not only am I so blessed to have him as a husband,  He is my best friend.  Mills is a lucky boy to have Erik as his father.  He is such a wonderful daddy.\

A decade of commitment has passed for us, and I look forward to each and every day here after as our commitment, love, and life together grows to be that of what God has set in our path.  Through good times and bad, we are lucky to have God on our side to guide us, protect us, and show us that we are His. 

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Thank you God for blessing us with so much more than  deserved and for showing us that by trusting in you, you will always be faithful.  We are thankful for our many blessings.  I thank you for giving me my wonderful husband and son.