Easter 2012

We celebrated Easter with our usual crowd in the usual way. Just hanging out and enjoying everyone's company. Here are my kids posing before church. Lady bought Kathryn a new purse that she has carried around everywhere since Easter.

We had plenty of eggs to go around.
The three kids who were old enough went on an Easter egg hunt in the yard.Kathryn missed out on the easy ones because she was having one of her defiant moments. We called her over to look for eggs and she wouldn't come because it was at our request. That goes on several times a day.
She found one before Nathan! That wasn't an easy thing to do.
This is how Allison enjoyed the egg hunt.
Once Jessica realized the eggs were full of candy she began opening each one immediately as she found it and eating the candy. She got mad when she found one with money in it.
Nathan and Kathryn were rich with eggs.Kathryn made the mistake of showing Jessica one of her eggs.
Then Jessica found the Easter egg jackpot when she saw Kathryn's basket. Not only did she find a bunch of candy, but she was able to upset Kathryn in the process.

Adorable.
Mace had a happy Easter too.
After the egg hunt the kids hung out on the front porch and ate popsicles.
And they played in the new yard. We feel like high class now that we have grass. Laura blew bubbles for the kids' entertainment. The funny thing about this picture is Jessica in the background stealing Kathryn's favorite purse and wallet while Kathryn was distracted by bubbles.
I'm not sure if Jessica likes this tricycle because it's cool or only because it's Kathryn's.
Jessica squeezes as many hugs as possible into her visits with Nathan. When her daddy asked for a hug she pushed him away and turned back to Nathan and continued hugging him.

Kathryn doesn't understand them.
Worn out from the big Easter celebration.

Kathryn wouldn't let Lady out of her sight so she ended up going to church with her Friday night. She came home explaining everything about the Good Friday service. It got dark and the Bible slammed and made a loud noise. Then she goes on to explain the stain on the couch where Nate got a bloody nose.

This is her face of disgust. She holds it exactly like that and waits for everyone to see before she moves on. It's so fake it's funny.
Another Kathryn face.
I'm happy to say our bath game of tic-toc has dissolved and we've moved on to playing "Baby Allison." I carry them around in the towel like Aunt Lexi carries Allison around in her carrier.
I was demonstrating the game for Aunt Lexi.