Thursday, April 28, 2011

Easter!!

I love having a little one around for more than one reason, but one of the MAJOR reasons why is because holidays mean so much more and are so much funner :) This was not Kinsey's first Easter of course, but it was the first one she actually RAN around hunting for eggs!! I know every parent always brags about how smart their child is.. blah blah.. but I am totally confident saying Kinsey is VERY VERY smart.  She picks up on things that Brandon and I do and will imitate them or copy words without even a blink!! Its amazing :) She obviously hadn't hunted for eggs before and all it took was me picking up one egg and placing it in her basket for her to realize what she was supposed to be doing haha. 
We were lucky enough for Brandon to get Saturday and Sunday off work (yep, thats right folks, TWO days off in a row!!). Thanks again to his co-worker Jim :) anyways.. we started our Easter celebration by getting up early and going to the Kaysville Egg Hunt! We got there and there were so many people.. i was kinda worried until i saw they had a field for each age group so Kinsey was with ages 0-3.  We got there early of course to scope out all the eggs so we had to wait awhile.. but oh boy! as soon as the announcer said 1 those eggs were gone in a matter of 2 minutes lol.  We found a perfect spot for Kinsey to "hunt". It was an area with a big cluster so she didnt have to move very far :) Later that day Kinsey and I made yummy Easter cup cakes.  I baked and frosted and she decorated!!
Easter morning was a BLAST!! Kinsey woke up at 7AM and thats pretty early for her.. but I knew it was because she was just excited to see what the Easter bunny brought her! I jumped out of bed fast too because i was excited to watch her look for eggs haha At first she was too tired and didnt care much for looking for the eggs.. so I opened one up that happened to be some chocolate and man oh man that got her motivated to find ALL the eggs in the house! (she is just so little but still knows what to do for her chocolate fix :) We let her make a mess of the Easter grass and play with all her eggs for awhile.. that was a HUGE mess to clean up ugh!!
Next was the family parties!! Since my parents are separated I always have two parties with just my side of the family, then Brandons family does a party.. so we usually have a total of 3 parties to go to every holiday! You think it would excite me, but thats a lot of food and driving and sometimes its hard on Kinsey.. but I want to see everyone so we make it happen :) Our first stop was to Rob's sisters house, Debbie.  My mom and Rob got Kinsey a life size teddy bear!!! That thing is as big as me lol she loves it and is always trying to feed it or give it kisses.  Next we were off to my Grandma's house to do another egg hunt.  It was important to make it to this one because Kinsey LOVES her cousin Kamryn, who is almost 5!!.  So she got to look for more eggs with Kam and get more goodies :) Then we headed to Brandon's parents house where we ate again and did another egg hunt with those cousins. 
At the annual Kaysville City Egg Hunt

her findings :)

She is so serious and professional when it comes to decorating cupcakes haha

hunting for eggs in the kitchen

gotta let them have fun.. no matter how big the mess gets, i guess

her LIFE SIZE teddy bear

can you believe she is big enough to eat at the "kids" table.. :(

What a GOOD day!
All in all I would say we had a FANTASTIC Easter!! Kinsey had such a great day and seemed to love every minute of it :)

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