easter part 1

we went up to grandma's this easter-saturday for egg hunting and company. we got a pretty good haul, considering easter totally snuck up on me this year and i was absolutely not prepared (hooray for the teenaged easter bunnies!!!). malachi had no trouble figuring out that eggs have candy in them, the only part that was hard for him was not eating the contents of each egg as he found it. i liked how seriously he took the egg hunting though:

he was also happier to find grandma's water bottle than some of the eggs he found. he had to give that back though.

this may just be my favorite easter hunting picture of all... afton was finding eggs so fast we had to stop her a couple times so the others could get some too... then there's this picture where she clearly missed that bright pink one in search of something else...  i believe rayna got to that pink one before afton ever realized she missed it :)

rayna had a blast. and yes... she dresses herself!



this is as close as we got to easter baskets this year too, thanks grandma for the chocolate bunnies and the slippers!!! they love those slippers!



we were also super excited to play with the bubbles from maggie! that package was the nicest surprise we've had in a long time! it totally made our day. here the little stairstep kiddos were blowing bubbles as fast as they could for alpha-dog. that is one crazy dog (of naomi's) that LOVES bubbles!

i have a bunch of cute pics from easter too, with their cute little outfits, but i think i'm going to have to make that a second post cause this one's already longer than i meant it to be :) i love sharing pictures of my adorable kids--and yes, i'm biased, but they sure can be adorable!