Eva's First Easter

Happy Easter! I hope everyone had a wonderful day celebrating that Jesus is indeed risen and ALIVE! We started our celebration by going to church in the morning.

Our family was at church extra, extra early this week to help get things set up for the service, egg hunt, and brunch. We were expecting extra families so there was plenty of preparation to do. Ryan and other church staff work so hard to make sure that everything is ready when families arrive. Since we were up early and at church early, Eva was already pretty tired by the time the egg hunt started.

Look at all of those eggs! I wonder how many of them Eva will find????

I had to include this photo of some of our middle schoolers as they raced off for the hunt. Can you spot the determination? Wow.

A few of our preschoolers. I love how they would pick one spot to quietly select their eggs.

Ryan took Eva to a spot to get her to pick up an egg. Look there it is.

All you have to do is reach out and get it. Nobody will steal it from you.

And she just sat there.

Back at home after church she got her first Easter basket. No candy for this little one, just some stuffed animals and books.

We had my family over for Easter lunch. I was happy to use my grandmothers' old table linens and crystal that has been passed down to me.

I even folded our napkins to look like bunnies! I joked that after spending the time to fold them nobody could actually use them, but we did.

I served all of the lunch foods in pink dishes. I thought Easter was an appropriate holiday to bring them all out.

This was the cake that I made. How do people on other blogs get such amazing photographs of the food they make? Let me assure you, the cake tasted amazing. It was a 3 layer Snickerdoodle cake with brown sugar butter cream icing. Made with 6 sticks of butter. Yum.

When lunch was finished we headed to Royse City to see Ryan's family for dinner. After eating only part of a slice of my fabulous cake I was so full I didn't think I'd ever eat again. Sadly, it was pouring rain for most of the afternoon so we didn't get to do a Bradley family egg hunt outside like we usually do.

Have you ever seen a baby look so sad to sit in front of a basket of eggs? Maybe next year Eva will be more excited about Easter.

Can you believe they give us these plastic eggs and expect us to look at them and smile?
These eggs don't even have food in them.

I guess if they make enough silly sounds we will look up at them.
Come on, Mallory, let's get this over with.

With Nana and Papa after the rain finally stopped.

This morning Eva had fun playing with some of the prizes from her eggs while I ate breakfast. She was so happy and smiling!

I was hoping to get a great family photo of the three of us dressed up but since my hair had been rained on more than once it didn't quite happen. Oh well, sometimes good enough is good enough. Happy Easter from the Bradleys!