Happy Easter!

Easter weekend this year was a little, um, on the cool-ish side.  And rainy.

Boo.

So we didn't go to the Spring Fling our church usually does -- in fact, they had to cancel the event due to the weather.

Boo.

Easter Sunday was cool, but at least it was sunny.  I had to improvise with Deacon's shirt, and putting a long-sleeve onesie under Natalie's dress, but they were still cuties, in my opinion.  :)

We were invited to a luncheon that afternoon so Deacon did get to do an egg hunt with some other kids inside our Family Life Center at church.  He had fun with that.

I put a couple of beach toys in Deacon's Easter basket, along with some chocolate and peeps (just like his daddy...).  In Natalie's I just put a couple of soft toys that she'll be able to play with later on.

[Natalie's 1st Easter]

Easter 2013

Easter Sunday this year dawned...well, not so sunny.  Or warm.  At least not to begin with.  It turned out to be a decent day, though, by the time we left church.  We had a great service, as always, celebrating the resurrection and saving power of our Lord Jesus.  I am so very thankful that I belong to Him, that He has made me free!

 

I tried again to coordinate our "Easter outfits".  It's a little more subtle than last year, but we are both actually coordinated with Deacon's little sweater vest.  Oh, he was SO handsome!  And bonus!  We found our friends, Larry & Kristen, as we were picking Deacon up from the nursery so I was able to have Larry snap some quick photos of us after church.  Larry was our photographer at both of Deacon's birthday parties.

As we did last year, we waited until after church to do Easter baskets.  I'm not even trying to deal with a kid who is either a) strung out on all kinds of candy, or b) pissed because we gave him the basket but told him he couldn't have any of the candy in it.

 

It was fun to watch him discover the basket and then look in it to find all the goodies.  We gave him a few books from the Target dollar section (that place NEVER fails me), some eggs filled with various candy including gummy bears (one of his faves) and peepsters (have you heard of these?  chocolate covered marshmallow, holla!), and a battery-operated Percy train.  He loves the other battery-powered train on his train table, and he loves Percy (Thomas' best friend :) so we figured that would be a hit.

 

 

And oh, boy...he's been introduced to Peeps.  These are Jeff's all-time fave Easter candy (I say yuk.) so I'm actually surprised of course, he shared with Deacon.  Well, what's not to like when you're a kid with a major sweet tooth??

 

Yeah, he's a fan.

 

 

 

I'm just gonna eat ALL of this candy right now, mkay??

Easter 2012

For Easter this year, I decided to try to coordinate all of our outfits (as some are prone to do)...

Don't we look cute?

Jeff already had his shirt, so I grabbed it and took it with me to find matching/coordinating shirts for me and Deacon.  Success!

Sundays are always pretty busy for us in the morning, getting ready for church so we decided to give Deacon his Easter basket after we got home from church.

He got a little remote control (the boy LOVES remote controls!) and some bubbles (he also LOVES bubbles!) with a hand-held bubble-blower.

It was a beautiful day on Easter Sunday, so we took the bubbles outside to see how the bubble-blower worked...

In the words of my husband, "This thing is the HEAT!"  I'm pretty sure Deacon loved it...score one for mama!

Spring Fling 2012

This year's Spring Fling at our church was MUCH different than last year's, considering Deacon was almost a whole year older for it (17 mos vs. 6 mos last year).  He had the same time as last year for his egg hunt, 10:30am, but it meant something completely different.  We couldn't put him down until the whistle blew cuz he would make a bee-line for those eggs!

It was a lot of fun chasing him around the yard, watching his reaction to the eggs and other kids.  He still doesn't have the concept of gathering eggs yet, of course.  Last year he was chewing on eggs.  He was still doing that this year, but he could pick them up himself.  Then he would lick them a little, drop them back on the ground and move on to the next ones.

Nice.

So mama was following him around the yard with the basket, grabbing the ones he licked to put in his basket.  No need to spread those germs around, even if they are from my sweet boy.  :)

After the egg hunt, we went over to get in line for the tractor rides!  Oh man, did Deacon like that!  We got on the trailer that was hitched to the tractor that my boss, actually, was driving, Pastor Jimmie. 

Jimmie loves him some Deacon Wenzel.  :)

We sat right in the back of the trailer, so right next to the tractor and Deacon just watched it the whole time.  It was really a nice ride, longer than I thought it would be, and we had really nice weather -- windy, but very sunny, and not a cloud in the sky.

After the tractor ride, we went to get a hot dog and some popcorn for lunch.  By the time we finished up, Deacon mama & daddy had pretty much had all the fun they could take so we headed home for naps all around.

Of course, you know we took tons of photos...

Special thanks to our sweet friend, April, who volunteered to take photos for us during the egg hunt!  Gotta love thoughtful friends!  I'm looking forward to returning the favor for her after their first baby arrives in July!  :)

Deacon's 1st Easter...

Every year our church has a big Spring Fling for the kiddos for Easter -- everything from egg hunts for all ages, pony rides, bounce houses and food, of course.  We usually participate by serving somewhere but this year we just attended as parents.  :)  And any good parent would take their child to an egg hunt, right?

So that's what we did.  We took Deacon to his first ever egg hunt.  It was at 10:30am last Saturday morning and I thought we were going to get rained on but it turned out to be a pretty day.  Basically, we have this huge field that we just throw a bunch of eggs on and then when the horn blows, all the kids run onto the field to gather as many eggs in their baskets as they can.  No hunting, really.  Just gathering.  For Deacon's egg hunt, the ages were from babies to 1 year olds.  So, pretty much we just sat down somewhere with Deacon and took photos of him chewing on the eggs.

Cuz that's what he does.

But he's dang cute when he's doing it.  :)

And then Easter Sunday, we awoke to a beautiful morning that turned into a gorgeous day.  Exactly what I would order to celebrate the day my Lord Jesus rose from the dead, praise His name!  We dressed Deacon in a cute overalls outfit (I had been told that boys get robbed when it comes to finding cute little outfits for Easter and that was pretty much it -- I ended up going with something he already had that was just as cute as what I found in the stores).

We gave Deacon a little Easter basket with a few things -- some books, a pack of pacifiers and an inflatable beach ball (which he can't play with now, but soon...).  He also got some bubbles, a fuzzy, cuddly stuffed bunny and a little outfit from family.

We had a nice day -- awesome service at church, good lunch with friends and then just relaxing the rest of the day.  Jeff's younger brother, Tim, and his wife, Leslie, were here for the weekend so it was nice to visit with them.  We took a walk around the neighborhood...it was just a really nice day.

[hard to see his eyes with his cool sunglasses on,

but I think he was watching the bubbles...]

Hope you all had a blessed Easter, too!

[6 mos]