Happy Easter!

The girls had a great time in NH.  Friday the weather was nice and we spent some time outside.

Saturday there was a city-wide Easter Egg Hunt downtown at the State House.  I usually think of day-before-Easter weather as warm and sunny but it was cold and rainy.  Oh well, we braved it anyway. There were a lot of kids and some waiting...

We met C & H there and H was obviously much more excited about egg hunting in the cold than MiniM.E.

But once the hunt was on, MiniM.E. was in her element and loved it.

We had to book it out of there pretty quickly as the rain and wind started, but it was fun to go.

Easter Sunday was great.  We skipped church because LittleL.G. had a cold and probably would have lasted ten minutes, and MiniM.E. was anxious about going anyway.  I did dress them up in their fancy clothes, but my best photo was far from the best of the day.

LittleL.G. rocking one of the springtime outfits I wore as a baby

Auntie Jen spent the day with us and played photographer, and I might just have to hire her to come live at our house and document the kids because she does a great job... I don't even have to caption what we did- here is our Easter in photos.

NH for Easter

Tuesday I had surgery on my leg for my varicose veins which have been a loathsome presence since sometime late college... or maybe right after? They've been on my leg for such a long time I really cannot remember a time after high school where I was like, "yeah, I can totally rock this pair of shorts because I don't have any lumpy blue things on my leg!"

My mom came to watch the girls and I have to say, aside from some nausea from the pain meds, the actual procedure was pretty easy and I got to catch up on some TV watching.  Overall, a nice break.

Fast forward to the middle of the night on Tuesday when I thought someone had surgically implanted flaming tennis balls into my leg.  Extremely sore.  But hopefully will be well worth it.

By Wednesday mid-day I was feeling a lot better and we decided to take off for the Easter weekend right after MiniM.E. got out of school.

And here were are!

we're where??!?

sister play time

"what? there's no more snow?"

Gymnastics

MiniM.E. has been taking gymnastics at the YMCA since she was two.  Of all the activities we do, it is definitely the one she loves the most.  I try really hard to get some good photos, but now with a baby in tow it's pretty tricky.  Also, with stuff for two kids in my diaper bag there isn't room for my fancy camera so I've only been using my phone so we'll call these photos "action shots"-- you know, because I really wanted you to feel the movement ;)

And here's a baby in a sun hat:

Photos With the Easter Bunny

I have to say I have never really understood how the Easter Bunny came to be a grown man in a bunny suit at the mall.  Or the enchantment of a giant bunny somehow coming into your house to leave a basket or hide eggs (do you leave the door unlocked or does he break in?).  I always thought it would be cuter if the Easter Bunny was, in fact, a bunny.  Maybe one that pooped chocolate eggs?  

Well, someone finally got it right.  Healthy Living partnered with a Eagle Ridge Farm to bring live Angora Rabbits to the mall for Easter Photos.

Cutest idea ever.  The giant floppy rabbits loved being held and all the kids got a kick out of it.  The line was so long it went through half the mall.  

Fortunately, MiniM.E. was so excited that she kept pestering us to leave so we got there half and hour early and beat the crowds.  UNfortunately, it was a little stressful to sit the girls up with a bunny seeing as how LittleL.G. is still pretty new to the sitting thing and they had the girls sitting on metal chairs on a tile floor.  I really wanted to snap my own photos but it was a quick sitting and I had to be on top of LittleL.G. so we only got the photo they snapped and printed.  I don't think they did a very good job editing, but it's still a pretty cute photo of the girls with a bunny.

Happy Easter!