Easter...

Easter

I know that Easter is well over.

The baskets and bunnies have been stored away.

The eggs have been found and eaten....

....but I am just now getting around to

sharing my Easter picts with you.

As I posted in an earlier entry,

My hubby was able to be home with us for Easter

before returning to Afghanistan.

Such a blessing to wake up on Easter morning with my whole family,

To be able to worship in church with my whole family,

To eat Easter dinner with my whole family,

To celebrate a holiday with my whole family.

The Easter bunny brought my girls sock monkeys.

They were named Oso and Alley Easter morning bed heads...

The Easter egg hunt after Easter dinner

at my mom and dad's house.

My mom and Mary-Morgen hunting.

We started out calling my mom "Grandmother".

Of course little children have a hard time pronouncing grandmother,

so in an attempt at saying grandmother

my youngest daughter started calling her "Mugga".

So now, she is mugga to all grand and great grand children.

My nephew Ben on the hunt ....

Katie on the hunt...

Mary-Morgen on the hunt...

I love how Mary-Morgen looks like an Easter egg in her dress.

notice the pink Chuck Taylor high-tops with the dress.

my dad with Ben on the hunt...

My father also started out as "Grandfather"

and the same attempt made by the same little girl

lead to "FaFa".

Needless to say he is now known as fafa

to all grand and great grandchildren.

by the way my mom told me that they

found an egg yesterday that never got found.

{we use real eggs, so you can imagine the smell, at least in was outside}

part of the family in my mom's back yard on the hunt ...

could not take enough pictures this day....

Such precious memories,

made even more precious with hubby home.

Happy Spring!

He is risen!