{Backblogging} Easter 2013

I have recently admitted to myself that my "temporary" break from my once much-loved hobby of scrapbooking is not so temporary.  This time, space, and money-consuming past time now truly resides in my past.  My free time has been overtaken by the much more worthy endeavor of mothering.  This presents quite the conundrum, since the act of raising kids mandates record-keeping.  However, since I have yet to complete Caroline's baby book, I have decided to cross over to the world of printed photo books from online sources.  (By the way, if you have a favorite printing site for photo books, please let me know.)  Therefore, I am going back to fill in a few gaps so that these memories will be easy to transfer to books.  We pick up in March 2013:

Our first Easter with Luisa!  We celebrated several times with various family and friends.  Her first Easter egg hunt took place in Pensacola. We also enjoyed the weather that weekend by hanging outside blowing bubbles and playing softball.  The weekend was rounded out by a visit with Philip's grandmother, Bebe, and his Aunt Rebecca.

BUBBLES!!!

Daddy, Luisa, Caroline, Aunt Rebecca, and Bebe

Ready to hunt!

A swing (and a miss)

Let's go, Lu!

Our next egg hunt was with some neighborhood kids at a friend's house.  The kiddos, all five and under, had fun hunting eggs in the back yard.  Philip and I had realized that week that Luisa, who was so resistant to using her walker, was willing to use it to walk around to yard to gather eggs into her basket.  We actually practiced with her several times that week in our back yard, Caroline running ahead to place eggs on the ground and Luisa laboriously coming behind, stopping at each egg and asking us to pick it up for her.  Her limit was about 20 feet, and this took several minutes.  (It is absolutely amazing to look back and see how she has progressed with her walker.  Just a few weeks prior to this, she was adamantly refusing to use it.)

Sarah, Caroline, Sophie, Luisa, Cade, and Ollie

"A boiled egg? Where's the candy?"

Walking, walking, walking

The new game of Chase the Giant Egg Down the Giant Hill

We spent Easter morning with our church family, and then we headed to Mimi and Pop's for Easter lunch Sadly, the banana pudding I made was "accidentally" left in our refrigerator by Philip, which is now believed to have been a ploy to get all of it to himself.  :) There was another egg hunt and some time to dye eggs that afternoon.