Easter

We have a family tradition of making a bunny cake on Easter. Sometimes it's a sitting up bunny and sometimes it's just the face. This year we made the face bunny. (Christopher took this closeup picture of the face.)The whole bunny.
The cake decorators, Christopher and Kelly. Christopher was in charge of putting the polka dots (M&Ms) on the bow tie. Kelly was in charge of the piping. Dad frosted the blue bow tie and I frosted the white.

JJ & Christopher in their new Easter tie and vest/tie, respectively.
Kelly in her Easter dress.
Kelly holding Leslie in the "Kelly chair".
Leslie in her Easter dress and John in his new tie. Leslie hates the headband (she must be related to Grandma Layton) and you can see in the next two pictures that she is taking it off. We didn't even take it to Church because it would have ended up in the diaper bag before we even got in the doors. It's still a cute picture, though. (Kelly loves Leslie's dress and wishes there was one in her size because it's blue and it has butterflies on the fabric, little ruffles around the bottom and two flowers on the bodice.)

Easter Egg Hunt

On Saturday we were invited to the Hopkins for an Easter egg hunt. It was very relaxed and absolutely perfect! The weather was a bit chilly and there was a little bit of wind but otherwise it was perfect.Kelly, getting ready for battle.
Christopher finding eggs - an action shot!
JJ had the choice to hide the eggs or hunt for them. He's 12 now so he decided to help hide the 300 eggs. He hid some of them in the rim of the trailer. Silly boy! (As "payment" he got his favorite candy - that he didn't have to share with anyone!)

Leslie enjoyed the hunt from the top of Daddy's shoulders. (Notice that they have the same hair growth - or non-growth - patterns. Leslie looks like she has a mohawk all the time.)
I wanted to get a picture of Kelly but they had just announced that there were still more eggs to find. The kids had each already found the limit set at the beginning of the hunt and had been told to go find more. She didn't want to stop for a picture and told me we could do it later. One of the eggs Kelly found had also been "found" by a squirrel. The egg had been chewed open and all the goodies were gone. The eggs had only been hidden in the yard about 30 minutes before the hunt began. Those are fast squirrels!