Easter

We had quite the Easter celebration which lasted a week in our house. We ended up decorating Easter eggs a week early and Elli had such a good time with it. Our plan was to decorate them at our friends' house, but we didn't get around to it at our final four basketball party. So...we did them ourselves on Sunday after naptime.

Connor holding the stickers for Elli!

On Good Friday, we traveled home and arrived at my parent's house around 5:00. We managed to squeeze in playing in the sand, an Easter egg hunt....

Clearly excited to go find eggs with Kensley

Action shot....running to the egg

"found one"

And Easter egg decorating....

all before bed at 7:30

Connor and Uncle Jeremy

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After little sleep, we woke up and headed to Scott's house for some Easter celebrations. I met my friend Kortnee for a quick lunch at Ivanhoes while the kids napped.

Connor took his first tractor ride!

Elli of course loved the tractor rides as she asked for them multiple times over the course of 2 days.

After tractor rides, we did an Easter egg hunt with the pillow cases Nana L. made the kids.

Even Connor participated in the Easter egg hunt

Posing for pictures with the Cousins
We also found out that Connor looks almost identical to Uncle Ross' baby pictures
Connor and Uncle Ross

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We then decorated step-stools made by Papa L.

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We woke up to look for baskets the Easter bunny left on Easter morning, took pictures, and then went to church. Here is the photo shoot before church and a little after.....

Nana L. made Elli's dress and Connor's tie onesie

Cousin picture.....

Grandma and Grandpa Zurcher and Carla came over for Easter lunch after church. We ate lunch and let the kids play outside for a bit before we headed home.

We left around 2:30 on Sunday hoping both kids would sleep most of the way home. Obviously, things never work out as we plan. Every time we head back to IN, we are continually reminded of how long 3 hours in a car can seem with a 2 year old and 7 month old. We were all excited to get out of the car and look to see if the Easter Bunny came to our house!! He never disappoints and brought both kiddos baskets ( I only got a picture of Connor with his basket)....

Scott ended up taking Monday off! As a result, we decided to save all the unpacking for Monday and give ourselves a free night to watch T.V. on Sunday. It was so nice to just relax!