Happy Easter!

Sweetie, as always, cooperative for Mummy's photo taking!

no one was spared the dress up time!

Lovey chilling out with Dad and a game of Membrane Massacre.

Honey & Sweetie needed more than Scotch tape to string up this troublemaker.

Easter goodies from Nanny & Grampy! they're so happy they paid for Express service to get this parcel to us well before Easter just so we could turn around & bring it back! They rarely get to see the girls open gifts from them so I thought I should save them.

We had Easter with Murray's family this year & packed in lots of family time! On Friday night there was a bday party for Auntie KK and you know how we love birthdays around here! The kids were very excited that they were invited to her party.

My sister in law, Karen & I always spend Saturday doing some big box store shopping and this time was no different, except that Murray's sister in law, Mandy decided to join us. We rarely get together so I had a great time hanging out with them! Mandy, next time, we promise, we'll do our running around first & call you when we're ready for the final stop! LOL

Here is part II of Mandy's bday/congratulations present that I was able to put together covertly on our shopping trip! I'd made up the storyboard before hand & just needed to get it printed & framed while we were out:

The Easter Bunny found the girls on Sunday morning and left a couple of goodies plus a zillion little eggs all over the house which they squealed in delight looking for. They each had a little icecream bucket and they ran around finding the little bunches of eggs. Every time any of them found a stash, they called the other two over so they could split the spoils. They were so nice & fair about it with no guidance from us, it was impressive to say the least. considering we can have some hungdingers over absolutely nothing, I thought that sharing chocolate would be much harder!

After we got the egg hunt over with, it was time to focus on the real reason for Easter! I dumped them all in the tub & we got ready for church, much to Rick's delight ;) After the years of going to church we've done, the numerous comments on what good girls we have, we anticipated a smooth service. But ohhhhhhhhh no. Someone had to have issues. It started as a wardrobe problem when I wouldn't let her wear her foodstained dress. She eventually chose another outfit and we left but she was working hard on maintaining that snit. She laid down on the pew, she pushed her feet on the seatbacks of the pew in front of us, she nagged and whined about goldfish crackers that I'd tucked into Nancy's purse for "emergencies". Murray & I were both astounded at this behaviour. We've never had her do this before and to have it trotted out in a different church was embarrassing to say the least! A little time out when we got home seemed to fix her up & the rest of the day went fine.

For fun, Nancy got out Nana's (their great grandmother) costume jewelry and they kept themselves occupied with that for most of the rest of the afternoon. It certainly helped that Flowergirl was there to play with them and of course sweep them off upstairs for one of their famous "secret meetings" that they're so fond of. When FG came to visit us a couple months ago they were quite put out that there hadn't been one so she made sure to get one in this time.