Happy Easter

Again, we kind of live for the holidays, marking the passage of time by how many days/weeks/months until the next time we can celebrate something.  It was especially exciting to have an early Easter this year as we didn't have to wait a long time after St. Patrick's day.  It was especially un-exciting this year as we had the stomach flu over the weekend of St. Patrick's day and again over the weekend of Easter.  It seems like we've lately had to start marking the passage of time by how many days/weeks until the next time I'm cleaning up sick.  I prefer holidays.

Anyway, we got it together enough to have a little bit of fun with the kids, even if no family dinner.  I don't think either Lucy or I even ate on Sunday!

Fun Easter bunny baskets.

On the egg hunt.  Lucy got practically all the eggs I hid - Jamie didn't really catch on to the fact that he was supposed to look for them until the last few eggs were in the yard. 

He mostly just played t-ball.

Eggs, those tricky eggs.  The green grass is peeking up here!

Lucy enjoyed some t-ball as well.  She hits kind of like her mother, tee and all.  I'm not keeping my fingers crossed for a softball scholarship to college here.

We also had lots of fun on the swing.

And Jamie was kind enough to work on cleaning up the last of the snow in our yard for me.  Just like Grandpa, he's always doing something.  Shoveling, mowing, raking, sweeping, vacuuming, hammering, etc.  I'm going to have to keep encouraging this one, maybe he'll build me a house.

Our egg tree has taken a bit of a beating this year, literally.  It went up pretty late and only after our behind neighbor had asked me if we were going to hang our eggs about 20 times.  I think she really must enjoy looking at the tree she asked so many times.  Jamie's favorite pastime is to beat the eggs with a stick/broom/shovel/etc and watch them wiggle around.  Most have cracked open and have had to be glued again.  I think when we bring the eggs down I'm going to get a couple of tennis balls and hang them from our tree to let him still beat something around.

Finally, our Easter fun video:

Easter 2013 from Kristin York on Vimeo.