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Easter

This year we had a very low key Easter. Mom had her last round of chemo this week and because of that, we celebrated Easter a week early with the Knowles family. It was an amazing day full of Easter egg hunts, bike riding, cookie decorating, and running around. It was perfect (it did help that we ended up with an absolutely gorgeous day!)! I, of course, took no pictures of the day......check Sarah's blog :-)
On Easter, we spent the day relaxing....just the four of us. We headed to church in the morning and while we were at church the Easter bunny came and hid a basket and eggs for Callie.
That tricky Easter bunny hid her basket behind the chair (a popular hide and seek location)

Checking out her Easter basket

Yum....jelly beans!

Some very silly glasses

The Easter bunny also hid a dozen plastic eggs around the house which contained Callie's lunch. She had SO much fun finding the eggs and opening them to see what the Easter bunny made her for lunch. 

A bagel piece with strawberry cream cheese....a favorite!

Here's my lunch....

Liam slept through most of the egg hunt and basket hunt but was all smiles when he got up!

Callie then helped me put the pineapple on the ham

Taking a step back in time, we decorated eggs a week or so before. Callie had a blast deciding if the eggs were dark enough or if we needed to let them go a bit longer (the answer was always longer).
Dye is all mixed and eggs are ready to be dyed

Liam kind of slept through the whole process....

Grandma and Grandpa got her a magnifying glass. She had to inspect every egg before she deemed it was good!


The finished product!


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