Hoppy Easter!!!!

Oh what a JOYFUL Easter we have had this year. 

I really hope we gave some good memories to Mikayla - I know I am walking away with a heart full of them.  We started out our day with a quick pose before we went to church.

And then when we got home, Mikayla and I were in the bedroom picking up and Michael was at his desk upstairs working and OH MY GOSH the doorbell rang, we ran to see who it was and lo and behold, the Easter Bunny came and left some eggs to hunt and a basket of goodies.

She didn't even look in her basket before she started hunting!  She was SO SO SO excited!!

She's getting so grown up on me.

It was a super small group (just the 4 of us) and I had thrown out there to the men (my dad and Michael) about what we should do.

Option 1 - Cook a big ol dinner and invite a ton of people over to share with us

or

Option 2 - make reservations at a really nice restaurant and just go out and enjoy the day without all the work.

What did they choose???

They chose Option 2 - without question - hands down they both said "lets go out".

Ok!! Katie recommended a really REALLY nice restaurant in College Station to us so that is where we decided to go!

Naturally a special child friendly cocktail had to be ordered (Shirley Temple) complete with a cherry on top (hence the stem sticking out of her mouth LOL)

It was so bright out but was sort of raining - so weird!  So we're all glary but rain dropped on LOL

It was so special in so many ways.  It still makes me really sad that our group is so small now :(  it's really hard to lose your people. 

Mikayla's friend next door told her that the Easter Bunny doesn't exist....UGH, she told Michael and the next day we were all talking about it together.  I told her that everyone's house has a different kind of magic.

Our house has the Tooth Fairy and the Easter Bunny...that IS the special magic at our house.  Everyone's magic is a bit different, and it's ok that he thinks that, we just have our own magic just as they have their own.  Michael was totally silent during my magic rant and then he piped up...yea...it's our own magic.... I felt like I was talking them both off the ledge....LOL

She hasn't mentioned it again...and well, it's true, this IS our own kind of magic.  I love making and watching it happen.  It's what I dreamed of for so long before we were blessed with her.  So even as she gets older we will still always have our own kind of magic.

Always.........

Easter Eggs!!

We had our annual egg dying night! SO much fun!  I wish it took longer than it actually does because I didn't get my fill of doing it, we ran out of eggs before we were ready to.

We're all set to go!!  aren't they so cute, all lined up like little soldiers?

 

Our first attempts at tye dye eggs - LOVE them!

GOOD times!!!!! I love this!!



Happy Birthday Tyler!!!! ARRRRRGH

We went to Tyler's 4th Birthday Party!!!  WOW it was a SPECTACULAR party!  WOW!!!!

It was all about Pirrrrrates!  We've been speaking pirate for at least a month now while we crafted to our hearts contents some goodies for the event.

Look at the Dessert Baaaaaargh...seriously - amazing, right!!!

We made the treasure chest out of a copy paper box.... it was complete with a "hinged" lid.  The kids got to dig for treasure.  We are strongly opposed to sand...so she used rice!!! It was AWESOME!!

Check out her gate ship.... WOW!!  It was even better in real!

Goodie bags we made, so cute including the cute crock clips!

OH NOOOOO Mikayla's getting eaten by the bean bag toss croc.....

ACK she's not the only one!!!

Fishing game.

Shark infested waters!!! The hooks...they were seriously so fun to make!  hilarious actually ;)

ARRRRRRGH  walk the plank!!!  (complete with croc made out of bubble wrap) (seriously he was soooo cute)

Swords and telescopes we made.  ARRRRRRRGH

 Mikayla wanted to run the fishing game!  She had such a good time!  ARGGGH

ARRRRRRGH great parrrrrrrrrty!

  

Pirate ship tractor rides!!

What fun....there was a hidden pirate surprise complete with cannon balls (video is hilarious one of the dad's was hiding to "cannon ball" them when they came by!).....

Look at all the sword ready pirates!!!!!

Ahoy ARRRRRGH

Pinata time.... let me say - one of the highlights of the party.  So fun!! it's just as much fun to see the adults!

Look at this face of concentration.......

and this one (it's Tyler's dad)

and even this one....(from last year)  (that's Tyler's mom) - Shall we venture to say that it's a family thing??

YUMMY cupcake!!!  (I loved the ship picks Katie made for them)
 

Katie had so much fun with all the little kids crowding around for presents. 

Always time for bikes!!!

  

Thanks Katie, we had a BLAST!!!!  You know how to throw a heck of a party!!!!!