Easter 2011

Just get ready for a TON of pictures. I took one picture last Easter, so I'm making up for it this year. :) I got Addi's Easter bucket all ready Saturday night and had it waiting for her Sunday morning.

Addi enjoyed eating sausage balls for breakfast. She was a sleepy bear and I had to wake that child up so we wouldn't be late for church!


Despite my best efforts, we only had time for a few pictures before leaving the house and we decided to save Addi's Easter basket until we came home. Oh and this was Addi's first dress. I had bought this one before I knew Josh's grandma had made her one, so we just did an outfit change after church.




I will admit, Satan really tried to steal my joy this morning. We were rushing and all of my "plans" like opening the Easter baskets didn't go how I wanted and just other silly things caused me to be upset. I'm so glad it didn't last long. As soon as we started church, it was like everything negative just went out the door and all I was focused on was the glorious news that He is RISEN! Oh my word, the worship was just amazing. One of the things that stuck with me was when someone said, "A thief on Friday and a King on Sunday." So powerful.

After church, we headed to Searcy to have a big Easter lunch with all of Josh's family! It was so much fun and Addi had a blast. She absolutely loves dogs and all she kept saying was, "puppy!!!" when she saw Duchess or Elliot! It was so cute.


Josh's grandma made a huge turkey dinner and we ate ourselves silly. After lunch, we headed outside to do the big Easter egg hunt.












Sorry, that was an obnoxious amount of photos! At first, Addi didn't really get into the whole hunting eggs deal. Once she found out there were m&m's in them, she changed her mind real quick and hunted those things down! She's a smart kid. We paused to take a few family shots.


After all the eggs were found, Josh's grandma and aunt divided us up into teams and we set out on an Easter themed scavenger hunt. Did I mention this is the most creative family ever?

Some of the guests couldn't handle the excitement. :) I told Josh that it was like looking 50 years into our future. Ha!

After the scavenger hunt was over, we played capture the egg! It was basically like capture the flag, but instead of a flag, it was a giant egg. We divided up into teams and I had one of the jobs of guarding the egg since I'm not the fastest runner. Shocking I know. We won the first two games, Josh used to play football and that worked greatly to our advantage, but the third game our egg got took pretty quickly. I will say trying to outrun a spry 15 year old boy is near impossible for this ole gal. Since we did win the majority of games, we got a candy bar and a $5 bill. Sweet!

We did get a visitor from this horrifying creature. P.S. it was MUCH larger in real life. And Josh kept acting like he was throwing it on me, and I would literally scream every single time. Doesn't matter if he's joking! I HATE spiders!!!

When all those festivities were done, we went to Josh's dad's house to find our Easter baskets! This year we all got swimsuits and I LOVE mine to pieces. Jeanette did an AMAZING job picking it out.


Addi was BEYOND exhausted by the end of the day. She was a trooper and was still a happy little lamb despite a non existent nap.


When we got home, we let Addi open her Easter bucket. She was pretty excited about all the things she got. One of them was an Elmo book and she pointed and said, "Elmo!" about a dozen times. :)



This was also part of her Easter basket, but I gave it to her a few days early. I ordered it from PolkaTot designs.

And if your wondering who that random dog is, it's Libby. We stole her from Josh's dad's house. She is the sweetest dog ever!!! Sorry for the incredible amount of pictures and jabbering. I applaud you if you made it this far!

I hope y'all had a Happy Easter!!!

LadyBugs and Cupcakes

Today was such a fun day. We had plans to go with our playgroup to walk at the park, but Addi had other plans. Little bear slept till 11:00 this morning!!! Which meant, I slept till 11! It was amazing. As soon as she got out of bed and saw it was sunny, she started begging to go outside. So, we ate breakfast quickly and stayed outside for basically the rest of the day. We got a visit from sweet Niki also! It was so fun to sit outside and drink diet cokes and talk about everything under the sun. We were watching Addi play and realized she had picked up a ladybug! This girl isn't afraid of bugs y'all! She was fascinated with it crawling all over her!




She was cracking me up today. There is a bird that visits her everyday and she can spot it before I can. It's just a little robin, but she is obsessed and today she named it. She pointed at it and started saying,"To-may!" "To-may!" So I guess the bird's name is now Tommy? Ha!

Tonight after dinner, I had a craving for funfetti cupcakes. I think someone had tweeted about it and I had to have them after I saw that. I ran to the store and got the mix, and Addi got to have one before she went to sleep.




We also got some practice tonight for the big egg hunt on Sunday! I think she's going to love it!


And let us not forget the reason for Easter. The death and resurrection of Jesus. He rose from the dead and is ALIVE!!! And because of HIM, we have the hope of everlasting life!

John 11:25-26
Jesus said to her, "I am the resurrection and the life. He who believes in me will live, even though he dies; and whoever lives and believes in me will never die."

Enchiladas, Babies and a Party!

So if you can't tell by the post title, I am trying to fit in most of the things that have happened this week since I haven't blogged that much. Monday night, I made enchiladas using Philly Cooking Creme. It's this new item in grocery stores that comes in four different flavors and it is SO good. I posted the recipe here. We had homemade guacamole to go with it and it was DELISH. I could eat Mexican food everyday and that would be fine.

I had to show y'all this video. Addi LOVES to dance and she just looks absolutely crazy when she does. She really gets into it and I'm not sure where she picked up these dance moves because I've never seen anything like it! I really need to get a flip video because the quality is terrible!

Tuesday night, we went out to eat with Josh's mom for his birthday. We decided to go to Capers and it was delicious as usual. Last time we went, we got to sit outside and it was really nice and Addi was very well behaved. This time, since it was about to storm, we sat inside and Addi was a mess. Luckily, there weren't many people in the restaurant, but Addi made sure that all eyes were on her. I think she gets mad if people aren't paying attention to her, so before we left she had made friends with a table next to us full of older couples. They thought she was so sweet, but we were pretty embarrassed! We let Addi play outside some before we left. I'm glad we did because she hasn't been able to since. It's been rainy and yucky here for days! I'm so over it!



Wednesday, we went to see Hillary's new baby, Sadie. Oh my goodess, Sadie is just a ball of sugar. She is so sweet! Addi got to hold Sadie and it was SO precious. She's been saying, "baby" ever since. So sweet.




Wednesday night, was Josh's birthday party! We did a big fish fry and a bunch of our friends came over to celebrate. I was so thankful for Scott because he fried everything and did all of the work! I did make a banana pudding at Josh's request. I use the Paula Deen, not yo momma's banana pudding. It is so good if you've never tried it. I used to not be a big fan of banana pudding, but this is wonderful. It uses shortbread cookies instead of nilla wafers. I'm really sad I didn't get pictures of the actual food, but it was amazing.





Today, we had an Easter playdate over at the house! Again, I was really disappointed, because I was hoping that the kids would be able to play outside, but it was a rainy day again. We did have fun indoors, and Addi was in baby heaven.






The food was SOOO good. We had made enough thinking more people were going to be there, but a couple of things came up so it was just four of us, but it was still TONS of fun! I had a blast sitting and talking with everyone!

Oh, and sweet Sara made Addi this Easter bucket. I am in LOVE with it!!! I think it is just the cutest thing and it's something she can use over the years. Thank you Sara!!!



Hope y'all had a great day! I am praying for some sunshine tomorrow!