first easter in my life where i did not spend it with my extended family! as you saw in the previous post about our situation with covid-19…it’s been several weeks of unknown, unfamiliar territory.
let’s be clear…i am not scared. i am not upset. i’m not living in fear but i understand that what we are doing is for the greater good of our world. i’ve loved our time home and if that’s what we need to do to flatten the curve, then so be it. i’m quite content.
celebrating the rise of Christ was so good. we started the morning off with easter baskets and gifts. the girls loved their presents! they spent some time opening up their treasures and then we ran outside for the easter egg hunt!
it had rained the day before, so we figured it would be safe to have the hunt outside and it was suppose to be 55 degrees, which was a great temp for us to hold this outdoors.
after the egg hunt, we came inside to open up all the colorful eggs to see what toys or candy it held inside! after playing around a bit with their egg hunt favors, we all got dressed up for the day and watched sunday easter mass via online.
we had our easter brunch catered through foxtail in downtown downers grove and all we had to do was heat it up! while we were preparing our meal, we were also waiting for the easter bunny to arrive!
a month back, our favorite shop, waterlemon offered easter bunny visits through their site! when i saw that, i thought hell yes! how awesome would that be with us not being able to visit the bunny this year but to have the bunny come to us?! i was on it.
as we were waiting for our food to warm up, the bunny arrived! we started screaming for the girls to come upstairs! olive rushed up and ellie was perplexed. we said, ‘the eater bunny is here!” and ellie was like no thank you. she said, “i scared! i scared!” well, we didn’t care. LOL we all rushed out and left ellie behind and she had no choice but to follow us outside.
oh what a treat! the bunny was waiting with balloons and gifts and asked if olive and ellie were around! olive was SOOOO excited! she was jumping up and down, so ecstatic to see the easter rabbit and so excited the bunny knew their names. the bunny was so sweet and loving towards the girls. they exchanged a few words and ellie busted out, “where are your carrots?!” hahaha! the bunny so wisely responded with, “i ate them for breakfast!” the visit was short, sweet, and socially distance. what i loved most was that ellie has always been afraid of life sized character costumes and she totally warmed up to the bunny…we are breaking through!
wow…it was such a fun 10 minutes of our day! the neighbors all came out to catch a glimpse and the bunny visit put a smile on everyone’s face!
afterwards, we all went inside to a delicious easter brunch and relaxed on the couch, in our jammies, for the rest of the day!
check out all the pics from our easter week!
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B U N N Y C R A F T
[ready to paint!]
[blue…her FAVORITE color]
[my sweet girl getting so big!]
[she’s so sweet]
[full focus]
[this girl is full of funny faces…she knew i was snapping a pic and wanted to display how hard she was concentrating and working on her artwork]
[finished product]
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E A S T E R W E E K F U N
[ellie’s easter shelfie]
[easter bunny lunch]
[easter basket goodies]
[i love creating their baskets]
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B U N N Y C I N N A M O N R O L L S
[yummy cinnamon bunny rolls]
[olive’s creation]
[ellie’s creation]
[she’s like – what you looking at?! LOL]
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E A S T E R E G G D Y I N G
[she’s been on either a cat kick or purple hair kick]
[i was very surprised at how well ellie did with dying her eggs!]
[she’s wild and sweet]
[first batch]
[painting]
[working hard with the glue, glitter, and confetti]
[olive’s batch]
[watercolor]
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S A T U R D A Y M O R N I N G F U N
[i had this donut decorating kit delivered to our house!]
[they ate more than they used on the donuts]
[working so diligently on her creations]
[the girl’s works of art]
[thumbs up yummy!]
[we packed up donuts for our neighbors!]
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E A S T E R S U N D A Y
[easeter goodies]
[excitement]
[she loves her walk a lot unicorn]
[she was excited to get this minnie mouse phone]
[olive’s glitter chalk easter eggs]
[gummi’s]
[easter dress]
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E A S T E R E G G H U N T
[ready to hunt eggs! i told hc to make it easy but i didn’t expect him to just dump the eggs in the middle of the yard. LOL]
[going through her goodies]
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E A S T E R B U N N Y
[my sweet babes]
[here comes the easter bunny!]
[waving from afar]
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E A S T E R B R U N C H
[bunny cookie from foxtail]
[bb’s baby donuts! so good!]
[grapefruit mimosas]
xoxo
