It's gonna be a bright...bright sunshiny day!

Thanks to Uncle Steve, who captured these shots of our girl and her sweet cousins at the Rockwood Easter Egg Hunt the Saturday before Easter. He is amazing at capturing just the right moments. Fun to spend time together, too!

Easter

Easter was so fun this year! Twelve days leading up to Easter, I read a special Bible story about Jesus with an egg Gracie got to open for each story. Each egg had something in it. Like on the 11th day, we read the story of Jesus on the cross, and the egg had a nail and a Band-Aid in it. (Gotta break it down for the little ones. Jesus went through some pretty hardcore stuff.) On the 12th day (Easter), the egg was empty because the tomb was empty! She's been asking for her "Jesus story and egg" almost every day since then...I guess that's how good habits can be made. I wasn't really sure what kind of an impact it would have on her.

She loved dyeing eggs together, and hunting them at my folks' house before our big Easter dinner. Mimi and Papa gave Gracie her pretty Easter dress and sandals (Momma tried to do a cute 'do - Mimi said she looked like a little Dutch girl), Nana and Grampy gave her a bubble mower, and we gave her a little bubble gun. She loved it all.

Carl + Cake

Better a little late than never: Carl celebrated number 31 on March 29th. He is such a good husband and daddy. We are so lucky we get to love him on his birthday and always.

I made this amazing rich delicious peanut butter and chocolate glazed + peanut butter frosted + chocolate cake for him, not because I am amazing, but rather thanks to my friend Rachel, who gave me the recipe! All of the little tips were so helpful -- I love recipes like that. I highly recommend the cake, and celebrating birthdays! Cheers to Carl and many more!

Really Super High

We've been doing a lot of this lately! And she always asks if we will push her "really super high!"




Also, as an addendum to the Big Girl Bed post, she fell out of bed early Monday morning. Thought we had a poor little broken nose, but thankfully it was just swollen and badly bruised. Hasn't seem to affect her spunky disposition at all!