Easter Morning 2013

We woke up Easter morning at my parent's house and couldn't wait to get downstairs to see if the Easter bunny had made a stop there for Mary Hyatt. 

Of course he had!

With her recent obsession with Mickey Mouse clubhouse, I couldn't resist buying all of these stuffed animals when I found someone selling them for $5 each.  (In the stores, these guys are like $20 a piece!)  Yes, I got FOUR of them for $20..the price of one!! Have I mentioned that I love consignment shopping and finding a good deal?! (We already had Minnie from our trip to Disney World but I set her up with the rest of the gang in MH's Easter basket so she wouldn't be left out! haha)

Anyway, at first glance, MH was far from amused at the stuffed animals.  Talk about a let down! haha All I was thinking was at least I didn't pay full price for them! :) (Just for the record, she does like them a lot now and plays with them often. I have found her several times laying on the ground surrounded by them all)

Easter morning all she went for was the Minnie Mouse pez candy...

And she wouldn't look at anything else until we opened it for her.  Guess she has a sweet tooth like her mama and daddy!

One more thing I just can't resist mentioning..her Nana and Pappy got her this awesome piano (at my request).  I also found it at a sale for only $10!!! I had already met my budget for the month according to my accountant husband haha but I couldn't let this deal pass so I called my mom and asked her if she wanted to buy it since it was only $10.  I am so glad she said yes! I love it and so does Mary Hyatt! I'm hoping she will learn to play the piano one day!

Mary Hyatt your Lovie and Grandaddy got you the cutest Easter gifts too... your first pair of your very own dress up high heels and a precious purse shaped like a dachshund! (I didn't have my good camera when you opened them though so the pictures on my phone were all very blurry.) It is so fun having a little girl and I'm so glad that you are so girly right now, loving shoes and accessories!

That morning we ate lots of pancakes and then got ready for church.  I wanted to get some family pictures taken but the morning was too rushed and by the time we were ready, my parents had already left for church.

I tried to take a couple as we were running out to the car..

My child is definitely a Mama's girl.  She loves her daddy but when she is sleepy, only mama will do...as you can tell in the picture below.  I wanted one picture of her with her daddy but she wasn't having it. 

We went to church and then to lunch with Lovie, Grandaddy and Sassy at the country club. Unfortunately no pictures to share! :(

Every time we go to Decatur, Mary Hyatt loves to listen for the "choo choo's" when we are at my parents house.  We thought it would be fun to go watch one go by on our way home from lunch.  After the train passed, I thought I'd take a few pictures of MH on the track.  It was a total failure...

This little girl was totally exhausted and all she wanted to do was take a nap.  She fell asleep before we even made it back to my parents house.

Oh well.  Didn't get many good pictures from this Easter but we had a great day celebrating Jesus' resurrection!

Easter Egg Hunt

So I know I'm super late in posting these pictures but better late than never right! :)

 

A couple weeks before Easter, our church in Birmingham held a huge Easter festival for all of the children.  We really thought it was just going to be egg hunts with a visit from the Easter Bunny, but were totally surprised when we got there and they had all kinds of stuff for the kids to do.

 

We weren't sure whether Mary Hyatt would even understand how to do an egg hunt.  Luckily, they had each hunt separated by age.  Of course for the 2 years and under age group the eggs were just thrown on the ground.  Mary Hyatt was totally surprised at first.

 

I showed her how to put one egg in her basket and then she started getting the hang of it.

After that, she was off! She carried her big huge basket around that was seriously almost as big as she was.

She loved it and Ben and I were so proud!

They only let one parent with each child in to the egg hunt area, so Ben was on the outside fence.  We laughed because he felt such a competitive drive in him and he kept yelling for Mary Hyatt to "hurry! get another one!" haha Mary Hyatt did not feel the same way.  She was so slow and often stood and watched all the others haha.

She even stopped to have a chat with this friend. haha Wonder what they were talking about?

After the egg hunt, we went and played in some jump houses that they had.  We were so thrilled that they had several specifically blocked off for the little kids!

MH was a big fan!

We also got to ride the choo choo! This was one of her favorite things.

We watched a puppet show with lots of singing and dancing and different props.  It was so cute!

Lastly we got to decorate a huge sugar cookie!

and then the best part was eating it!

Overall, it was so much fun! We really had such a fun time and are so glad that we went!  Just for the record, this picture shows that Daddy was in fact there... haha Such a good daddy carrying all the bags!  Don't you think pink looks so good on him? :)