Jim finally convinced me to make the frozen turkey we've had for a while. So, we had a Thanksgiving dinner in the beginning of April. We have a lot to be thankful for, so I guess this works for us. I'm happy to say, it turned out pretty well. Yum-
To our surprise, Lauren loves to make letters with blocks, toys,bowling pins, sticks... She loves her Nana and Baba's house with all the toys you could imagine going back 30+years. Here she is making L and F. Mind you this is with no help from anyone. Too cute!
Easter fun starting with "painting Easter eggs", as Lauren called it, then waking up to a cute Easter purse with a plastic egg filled with candy to start her day off right. Oh boy, here we go...
Church was great, getting to focus on the true meaning to us of why we celebrate Easter. We are so grateful for the deep love that the Lord and Savior, Jesus Christ has for each of us as exemplified by His perfect life and the events that He endured up to His miraculous Resurrection. What wonderful gifts to all mankind! (John 14:6)
On a more temporal note, one of the beautiful things we experienced that day was seeing our little Lauren in her beautiful Easter dress given by my Mom. She loved it so much and wore the thing from 10am-5pm that day. I had to convince her to take it off, and I actually have to sew the flower back on once it gets washed. She was really cute (I'm a little biased.) She really loves that dress. She said she was a princess. Thanks Mom.
Before church pictures:
Leaving for Nana and Baba's house: Lauren can't wait...
Baba has a surprise for Lauren: A sugar egg where you look inside and see the bunny. It was too precious, and very sweet of them. Literally as well. Made out of that pure white sugar for the egg, and more refined sugar for everything else, I haven't seen those in a long time. Very delicate. Kind of nostalgic seeing her look at one of those for the first time. Well, it didn't take Lauren long to figure out it was edible and it was gone before I could get her to eat her lunch first. I tried all afternoon long to get her to eat the right stuff, but alas it was Easter, what else is a kid supposed to eat all day long? I'm just kidding, I was so relieved when she ate some pieces of the delicious ham and other food Marian had prepared that night at dinner.
The very generous Easter Bunny knew Lauren was coming to Nana and Baba's house. Here's a picture of the beginning of the hunt and what's not pictured the eventual water splashing. I had to get a shot of this, it looked too cute! We had a wonderful Easter Sunday with the Folgers. Thanks for everything, we love you so much!
