Easter

If you have to go to Chemo mine as well make it fun right? So when Easter rolls around what do you do? Dress up like a little bunny. We handed out Peep treats to all of Addison's "Favorite Peeps," at Children's. It kind of didn't work because she finally had her MRI which she was suppose to have the week before but it got cancelled due to her being hospitalized with RSV (see her blog for more details http://www.bumpcourage.blogspot.com/). So she was a little drunk monkey from the anethesia they gave her during the MRI. But I handed them out to everyone and they all adored her bunny outfit. It was nice to bring so many smiles into a place that can sometimes be so sad and stressful. Her onsie had a peep bunny on it and the bum said, "Peep," with two more small peep bunnies.

For Easter dinner we had brunch with friends. It was a great view of Lake Michigan out the window and such a beautiful day.

Easter at our house was pretty low key. We mostly stayed in and tried to recover from our hectic week before. It's my goal to make our future Easters more Christ centered and this year we started by doing activities that mirrored the events that happened that day in Easter week. I got this great book last year from Deseret Bookstore , A Christ Centered Easter, which started my mind thinking about how we could be more Christ centered during the week. On Palm Sunday we took one of the ladies in our branch some bulbs. Just like Christ they live and die and just like Christ they will live again. And since it was a plant I thought it was representative of a palm. On the day when Christ cleansed the temple we thoroughly cleaned the house in preparation for the rest of Easter week. And this year those were the only activities I could get my rear in gear to do. Next year we will hopefully be able to complete the whole week of activities. It is my hope that our kids will look forward to celebrating Easter week for the real reason and the fun activities that remind us of the original Easter week. And we of course colored eggs.
Addison's Easter basket was one of my little holiday crafting projects. You turn a stuffed animal into a basket. So cute and easy too plus I got the animal for 50% off at Joann's, score!


Eating the non edible bunny Grandma Jodi and Pop Pop got her. The edible one stayed in it's package this year.

More presents from Pop Pop and Grandma Jodi.

To say the least between the bunny and both grandparents she made a haul. She got several outfits, LDS children's songs on CD, multiple teething toys, and a baby Einstein DVD she loves.

And just because. Wacky hair, snot freshly sneezed out, and drool. Yep that's our precious little monkey.