Easter

We had a wonderful Easter together. First up was our church's Easter egg hunt. Collin disappeared right before and we almost missed it, but thankfully someone found him and we got out there just in time. Here they are ready to get started....

....and they're off! (Dave always has them come down to the end so they have lots of space to get eggs since there are so many kids there. Sneaky, sneaky!)

Collin's happy with his basket-full!

Benjamin filled his as high as it would go.

Anna did great running around filling her huge basket. She was everywhere!

The Easter Bunny came!

Oh, the excitement!!!

We had to wake little Evie up for her first Easter. She was pretty out of it while watching the kids go crazy over their baskets.

She was wide awake though and more than happy to go through her basket!

We all enjoyed watching her discover all her gifts as she loved pulling things out of the basket.

The kids loved their cute little chocolate bunnies.

Trying out her bow and bath toy she found.

All dressed up for church!

Daddy and his girls.

Our very blessed family!

Us enjoying some time with Eva on her first Easter. :)

After church we went to a restaurant that offered kids eat free for the day and enjoyed a nice quiet lunch together. I grabbed a few more pictures there since it was pretty out.

Her siblings were too exciting for her to smile at the camera, but she was definitely smiling!

Our beautiful girls!

And sweet, handsome boys!

Eva had a grand time in her high chair at the restaurant. She rocked back and forth and laughed and loved sharing my soup.

The girls again, at home without their sweaters.

We had fun coloring eggs and did something new this year too. We prepared marshmallow Jesus' with spices and buried him in a crescent roll tomb and then after they baked, the tombs were empty because Jesus had risen! It was a really fun thing to do with the kids and they tasted super yummy too!

These aren't from Easter, just a couple cute Eva moments. Benjamin and I do a bible study on Mondays and  when we got home, we found Daddy enjoying sleepy-time snuggles with Eva. This is a very rare treat as Eva never sleeps on our shoulders, she only prefers to be rocked in the cradle position. Also, now that we've done cry-it-out we don't rock her to sleep anymore. Dave was a very happy Daddy!

Eva had been rocking back and forth on her hands and knees for weeks. After all of her hard work, she figured out how to crawl this week. It is THE cutest little staccato, deliberate crawl!! (I'll have to get some pictures as I only have video so far). The next day she pulled up onto her knees like this. I told her that was a little too much to do all in one week, but she was just proud and excited. Her face when she looks for your praise of her accomplishments is priceless!

Ta, da!!!

I also keep forgetting to record on here that she has her first word that she recognizes. For the past month, she knows what kitty means. I ask her, "Where's the kitty, kitty?" and she looks until she sees Pepper and then gets the biggest smile on her face and coos with delight. It's one of my favorite things to do with her! She also really loves peak-a-boo, especially if you put her blankie on your face and then she pulls it off which leads to delightful squeals of joy. She is so much fun!!