Easter

A few of their favorite things from the Easter bunny.

Our family at Nana and Paw-paw's house.

Love this picture of the girls!

Nana with Sophie and Abbie

The girls with Nana and Paw-paw

Abbie, Sierra, Sophie and Summer

Abbie and Summer

Sophie-1st Easter egg hunt of the day at Nana's house.

cousin Annie over at Uncle Jim and Aunt Linda's house.

Harper, Grace, Sophie and Abbie after their egg hunt.

Abbie loves hanging out with babies!!

picture of all the little cousins including: Abbie, Annie, Sophie, Grace, Ty and Harper.

We had a very nice, busy Easter overall.  The weather was very warm.  Our family attended Brentwood Hills for church this year because Matt was teaching a Sunday school class.  After a wonderful service and Bible class, we had lunch at Nana's with Nana, Paw-paw, Uncle Mike, Aunt Shannon, Summer and Sierra.  Although we had fewer people this year, we still really enjoyed being together.  The only downside for our family was that Paula had developed a cold and was not feeling well.  Our girls hunted for Easter eggs after lunch at Nana and Paw-paw's house along with a little boy, Charlie, who lives across the street from them.  We visited for a while and then headed for home for a little bit.  We had so much good food for lunch.

Then, we went over to Uncle Jim and Aunt Linda's house to be with them as well as their kids and grandchildren who live in the area.  Uncle Walter and Katie were in town as well so it was great to see them for a short visit.  Katie works in Houston right now but she had gone to Ohio to visit her parents for a few days and then came down to Tennessee with her dad before heading back to Texas.   Nana and Paw-paw came for a little while too.  Sophie and Abbie loved seeing Grace, Harper, Ty and Annie who are first cousins with each other (the first three are siblings) but I guess second cousins with my girls.  We don't get to see them very often.  The kids hunted eggs over there.  Annie was so cute because she was content to sit in the grass and look at a plastic egg, etc while the other kids ran around hunting for eggs.  =)  After that, we ate dinner and visited some more with everyone.

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wreath on our front door (notice anything unusual)?

bird nest with four robin eggs

On the weekend before Easter, Matt's parents were here visiting.  One night, Matt and his parents were coming in and his mom noticed that there was a bird's nest right in the middle of our wreath!  It kind of blends in and it's up pretty tall so I wouldn't have been able to see down into it.  I don't know when I would have noticed if it Teresa hadn't found it.  I got the pictures by standing on a stepstool and being able to shoot some pictures from above.  We'll have to keep an eye on things.  My first instinct when it was pointed out to me was, "oh, well, I'm gonna move it" but then I was reminded that the Mama bird would abandon the eggs.  I hope we don't have birds flying around inside our house once these birds hatch but it should be interesting to watch them grow!  I love spring because of all the new life, pretty colors and growth.

Easter egg hunts

Here's Sophie's friend, Abby C., after she found some eggs.

Here's our Abbie with a big smile!

Abbie and her friend, Sophie C.

Sophie with her eggs and Abbie behind.

Brooke, Frances, Sophie and Abby C.

Abbie with the Easter bunny!

Abbie found some Easter eggs!

This past weekend, we had nice, warm weather.  The girls had soccer games on Saturday.  Matt's parents, Mimi and Papa Tom, came in from Virginia just in time to see part of Abbie's soccer game.  That evening, Abbie went to a gymnastics birthday party at Let it Shine while the rest of us went out to dinner.  The next day, Sunday, was very busy.  We attended early service, had lunch at Chuy's, came home and had a little downtime while getting ready to lead the Girl Scout meeting with Sophie's troop (it was my turn to lead a meeting), went to Girl Scout meetings, came home and got ready for the Easter egg hunts at church, picked up friends for the egg hunt and went to church, attended church service, dropped off our friends and returned home.  Whew!  What a day!  We were all so tired.

It's funny because we have gotten to be really good friends with a family in our neighborhood, the Clark's, who have girls the same ages and they have the same names as our girls but it's reversed.  Their Abby is the same age as our Sophie and they are in the same class at school. They are also in Girl Scouts together.   Their daughter, Sophie, is Abbie's age and they are in Girl Scouts together and they are on the same soccer team.  Anyway, we invited them to come to the Easter egg hunts with us at church and come to church with us.  All of the girls had a really good time!  It was about 80 degrees on Saturday and Sunday.  Our church has a big playground so they had fun playing on it in between the egg hunts.  They also had cotton candy, popcorn, and lemonade at the egg hunts.

On Saturday, our family went to Chick-Fil-A after the girls soccer games so that Matt's parents could enjoy a late lunch and we could have a little snack.  The Easter bunny was there and Abbie was somewhat scared.  She kept trying to hide behind Matt's mom.   Anyway, I told her that the Easter bunny would probably be at our church egg hunt on Sunday.  Saturday night before bed, she started acting nervous about seeing the Easter bunny again the next day but she said that she would go up and give him a high five.  She has always been very scared of the Easter bunny.  Well, we all laughed when it turned out the Easter bunny at our church (Andy Parker) did not have his face covered so Abbie didn't even have much to be scared of!! This may be the only picture that we have of Abbie with the Easter bunny because she usually always cries and we have to take her away from him!!