Easter

Last weekend was Easter, we tried explaining why we celebrate Easter to Joya, I am not sure she got any of it. She would tell people "Happy Easter and He is Alive." But, I think she was just repeating what she had heard. I guess we have to start somewhere, and even though she didn't real;y get it, she might next year. The weekend started on Friday night with Joya and Nana dipping egg shaped rice crispy treats in chocolate and sprinkles. The sprinkles were in the shapes of eggs, hearts, butterflies.

What she did get is how to hunt for Easter eggs. She had a great time and every morning since Saturday we have started our day with an egg hunt. It is funny how excited she gets when she finds an egg. On Saturday we went to one of our Family Foundations group members house. They have a 2acre piece of land, with some of it being an old christmas tree farm. We went there for brunch and an egg hunt. We had a great time getting to know more people in the group, since we are new to it! We also had a great time watching Joya hunt for eggs. She found about 8 and her basket was full, so we would say "Oh Joya your basket is full, let me hold some eggs for you." Then we would take half of them out and re-hide them for her. Sometimes it didn't work out, other kids would come and get them, but some of the older kids caught on to what we were doing and helped Joya find the eggs we hid. She loved it and it wasn't too bad taking the whole family out!

On our way home we stopped at the fair grounds because OSU's agg. department was selling their baby animals. We stopped by, just to see them and our neighbor, Mr. Matt. He works in that department at OSU and invited us to the viewing. He knew Joya loves animals!

The next day was Easter, so we packed everyone up again and went to church. Timmy did excellent, he was mostly quiet during the service. Then we hit Starbucks on the way home for a treat for Tim and I and I needed to feed Timmy. Joya loves to go to Starbucks with her daddy because he gets her strawberry milk, when she goes with me she only gets water!! Her daddy loves to spoil her! Then we spent the day at my parents house until Joya melted down at 6:30. We came home and put her to bed!!

Monday and Tuesday came and went for us, we all have head colds and the kids are not sleeping!! Joya slept better last night, but I was up with Timmy every 2 hours. He is just starting his cold and Joya, surprisingly, seems like hers is passing through fast. Tim is sick, and I am just tired, it may hit me later, or this is the same cold I had when Timmy was born! Monday was Timmy's first real bath. He screamed and then liked it after he was completely emerged in the water. I can't remember much from the last few days, but his bath was fun, especially when he soaked the counter by peeing a nice fountain on it. The pictures is not a good one of me, but it is the only one that didn't have Timmy's package out in the open!