Easter Weekend!!

Well, we crammed a lot into Easter weekend, and it was a great one! 

Event 1...Trip to see the Easter Bunny
Well, let's just say my two children could not be any more opposite!  I pretty much knew how this was going to go down, and my prediction was right.  Clayton is the only one in the picture with the Easter Bunny this year :)  Hollis is very timid and scared of most everything, so I knew a giant Easter Bunny was not going to be on the list of his favorite things.  Clayton loved it, walked right up and stared at the bunny adoringly and enjoyed every minute of it.  He cheesed for the camera and everything!  Hollis was like He$# No!  I mean, I tried to sit the child on the bunny's lap and his body went into full freak out mode, stiff, flailing limbs, and a death grip on my shirt!!!  I was not going to put the poor baby through that torture so he didn't even make it to the bunny's lap.  He was having no part of it, poor thing!  He did enjoy the jelly beans Gi Gi brought for the trip and the playing on the playground at the mall, but the bunny...not so much! 

Event 2...Dying Easter Eggs and Making a Bunny Cake
Gi Gi had Good Friday off, so she came over and dyed Easter Eggs with the boys...this is a tradition she wanted to start and has done with them every year since Clayton was born.  Clayton really got into it this year, and Hollis loved it too.  He wasn't quite sure what the heck was going on, but he like it all the same :)
While the eggs dryed, we went to work on the bunny cake.  My mom made these when I was little and I wanted to start the tradition with my boys.  Clayton was beyond excited and talked about making this bunny cake weeks before we made it.  He helped me pick out the candy to decorate, helped make it, and decorate it!  We had a great day and I look forward to doing this every year with my babies!

Event 3...The Bunny Breakfast
This is another thing that has become tradition for us.  It really is a nice event of breakfast, games for for the kids, the Castle show choir performs, and the Easter Bunny and clowns are there.  It is so cute!  We have gone every year since Clayton has been born.  This was the first year our cousin Kaitlyn wasn't it in :(  She has moved on to college, but the good news is, her younger brother Austin is now in the show choir, so we will get to go see him now!  The boys had a great time filling their bellies with candy, Clayton jumped in the bounce house, and Hollis loved watching the choir...he even joined in the dancing, by Mommy of course!  We had a great morning!

Event 4...Church, Lunch, and Egg Hunting

The most important, of course, was church as a family on Easter morning.  We were so excited that Pop Pop and Lisa joined us this year!!!  We had a wonderful Easter celebration at the Ford Center, and then headed back home for lunch with the family.  After lunch, Pop Pop, Lisa, and Uncle B hid eggs for the boys to find in the back yard.  Hollis was happy with finding one egg and then playing.  Clayton was hilarious...he was going around as fast as he could and every single time he found an egg, he opened it and said, "Oh Wow!"  So cute.  It was a great day!