Easter 2010

Since Jim and I didn't get home until late the Saturday before Easter Sunday, all of our Easter traditions unfortunately got dropped this year. Thankfully, my sweet and amazing friend Stacie (no, I'm not just kissing up to her because she watched my kids while we went on vacation, although I am EXTREMELY grateful!!) picked up the slack for this terrible mom. The kids colored eggs with her kids



and then had an egg hunt at their house on Saturday.



And, yes, I did steal these pics from her blog too. Since we woke up to five inches of snow at our house, the poor Easter bunny got stuck in the snow and didn't have time to hide the eggs, but he did leave leave the kids a picture of Christ and a special toy all the way from New York. Luckily the Easter bunny made it to Grandma and Grandpa Davis' house and left plenty of eggs there. We enjoyed a yummy dinner with my family and Grandma and Grandpa Stay.

One tradition that didn't get totally ignored this year was our annual Easter dress shopping trip with Jim's sisters and mom.

This is always such a fun time of shopping and lunching. Jim was in Indianapolis for work this year so I took full advantage of the day and drug my sisters-in-law to dinner and 'Dear John' after our day of shopping. Such a fun, fun time. It was made even more entertaining when Vanessa gagged on a french fry in the movie and threw up all over her and me. After the movie it was off to Target for pajamas for us to drive home in because according to Melanie (Jim's older sister) we were really stinky. For those of you who don't know Mel, she is just like Vince Vaughn in 'Four Christmases' when it comes to throw up. We laughed and laughed because of her response. I'm so grateful I have such wonderful sisters in my life who are always there for me. This year we decided to do pictures of all of us together since we all picked purple and green for our dresses this year. Trust me, the colors were extremely coincidental.









Our little model Ally had to have her picture taken by aunt Melanie's pussy willow tree...



Ally and Vanessa enjoyed playing with our empty Easter eggs on Easter morning while Andrew enjoyed putting together his new Iron Man 2 Bionicle.



Another good thing is that grandma Davis also picked up the slack and had an egg hunt at her house after dinner. The kids had fun finding eggs and playing in the back yard.





It was a fun Easter even though a lot of what we usually do did not get done because of our trip.