Tuesday, April 26, 2011

Easter (times 2)

Most holidays at our house get repeated. We have a lot of family pretty close, and we are lucky enough to have families that love to hang out together, so we do a lot of driving between Keizer and Philomath, enjoying all holidays to the max!

Easter was no different, and we started it Saturday morning decorating eggs at my parents' house. This was the first year that we didn't hunt for eggs, but there was no kids to find them, and it's just not the same with all grown-ups! It's important to note also that the 4.5 dozen eggs shown here is the smalles number I ever remember making, good job MOM!



I wanted Olivia to help with the decorating, so I gave her an egg and a crayon...needless to say she enjoyed the egg more than the crayon :). For the record, the egg was not peeled, and we were keeping a very good watch on her!




After eggs, I wanted to take some pictures of Olivia with my mom's beautiful tulips, so we went outside to the deceivingly cool spring weather. I just have such a beautiful daughter I couldn't help but post quite a few pictures...every one I took was great!














The next morning we headed to Keizer for Easter with Alex's family! In the morning we headed to Jim and Kathy's, and were wonderfully surprised by this adorable adirondack chair for Olivia and a super cute little bunny from Jim and Kathy, as well as these bunny ears from Danielle...Thank you! She was having a blast sitting all by herself, and loves her chair. I love the bunny ears, they are just so cute!




Olivia loves her aunt Ashley and uncle Andy :)

Super ladylike position :)



It was really fun watchin Ruby and Olivia playing, here is Debi "introducing" them :) It's really interesting to me that babies can sniff out other kids, and that they like them so much better than other people!




Peek-a-boo! It was one-handed, because Ruby wanted to see Olivia's face the whole time...


Grandpa Gary on baby duty! Olivia's favorite game is to take every toy that's around her and throw it, so she's always glad to have Grandpa around to give them back to her!




Ruby wasn't all that thrilled about Olivia's drooling all over, so partway through the afternoon she put herself on drool duty, and spent about 15 minutes with the burp cloth on hand, mopping up Olivia every time she was about to leak.




Story time! I couldn't resist this picture perfect moment between Aunt Wesley and Ruby!




Hallie caught this moment :) Olivia's all smiles hanging out with her family, and thoroughly enjoys the extra attention she gets!







Needless to say, we had a great Easter, and can't wait to see family again soon! This concluded our marathon of going to Keizer almost every weekend, and was just 4 days before Olivia was officially 6 months old!


Preview: next post we'll look at all the new skills Olivia developed during her sixth month!

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