Our Little Easter Bunny

"Happy Easter! Aren't I the cutest little Easter bunny you've ever seen?"

Easter weekend began with story time and an Easter egg hunt at Auntie's bookstore.


"Ohhhh, chocolate, my favorite!"

Then, we headed over to Riverfront Park for their annual Easter egg hunt. We got there about 20 minutes early and Rylan wasn't very happy about having to wait to begin the hunt (look at that grumpy face). In fact, he tried to go underneath the rope and start early at one point. He just couldn't seem to understand what on earth we were waiting for, especially when the eggs were all just sitting there ready to be picked up.

"Finally, the hunt has begun! Let's see how many eggs I can get."

The Easter egg hunt was over about two minutes after it began. But, Rylan still managed to get a basketful of eggs.

The Loot

Rylan was so excited for the Easter Bunny to come. He had been talking about him coming for weeks. He was thrilled when he found his basket full of toys and candy!

He even found a second basket from the Easter Bunny which included a shirt that says "Big Brother" on it. The Easter Bunny sure knows what's going on.

On Easter Sunday, Rylan's counsins (Jada, Ty, and Ava) came over for brunch and an Easter egg hunt in our backyard. Jada and Ty were nice enough the let the younger kids (Rylan and Ava) get a head start.

Rylan loved dying Easter eggs! He enjoyed dipping the eggs into several different colors and thought it was pretty cool that we could write our names on them.

"I can do it all by myself this year. Aren't my eggs pretty?"

"All done. Now we just need to let them dry."

After the eggs dried, Rylan got to decorate them with stickers. He loves stickers so he was pretty stoked about this!

Our last Easter just the three of us. Next year, we'll have a fourth egg in the picture!!!

We're Back!!!

For those of you who were wondering if we quit the blogging world...we haven't. We just had to take a break for a while due to a couple of extremely busy months. I was working on my National Boards teaching certificate and about the only thing I had time to do other than work on that was eat and sleep (even that was hard to come by). Well now that my portfolio is finished, I promise to be better about keeping you updated as to what our family is doing. I'll start by filling you in on our Easter celebrations.

We spent Easter with Bryon's family. One of Rylan's favorite foods is eggs. He eats them like there's no tomorrow, but he didn't seem too excited about dyed eggs. He had this look on his face as if to say "I love eggs, but eating blue eggs is going a little too far." I guess I'll have to start reading him the Dr. Seuss book "Green Eggs and Ham" to get geared up for next year.

Here's Rylan digging into his Easter basket full of Mariners gear. I'm not sure who was more excited; Rylan or Bryon.

Rylan got as excited about finding chocolate inside plastic eggs as I would about winning the lottery. He LOVES chocolate and ate quite a lot of it on Easter. I was beginning to worry that he'd never eat his veggies again.

Rylan's new best friend; the Mariner Moose. Boy, that Easter bunny sure knows what he likes!

Here's Rylan finding his second Easter basket. Apparently a couple of Easter bunnies left treats for him this year.

Bryon's aunt rented out a park with an indoor eating area. All the cousins, second cousins, aunts, grandmas, etc. got together and enjoyed a big Easter brunch together followed by Easter egg hunts for the kids. It rained most of the day but that didn't stop the kids from playing outside. We had a blast watching the kids race around in search of eggs, getting soaked to the bone in the meantime. Good thing there was an indoor fireplace to warm ourselves up afterward.

I was so proud of my little Ry guy...he was the youngest child participating in the Easter egg hunt, but by no means did this stop him. You should have seem him running around in search of eggs. The look on his face when he found one was priceless. What a joy it is to watch my son enjoy such simple things in life! He teaches me more than I'll ever teach him.

A dozen eggs: $1.99
A little boy in search of those eggs: priceless
"I see an egg! Oh boy, I'm almost there! I'm having the time of my life!"