a tisket a tasket

Ah, Easter morning. When easter baskets (or plastic buckets for the girls to play outside with and fill with water and mud) overflow with goodies,

and cute little bunnies...
are sacraficed with gumption. (Look at Ella's wrinkled nose. She must be learning how to eat chocolate from a pro.)

Maya, of course, spared no rabbit anatomy either.

Luckily, this bunny could not hear his fate and the sounds of the children laughing amidst the chocolate carnage.

Maya performed her egg trick. Who knew she had one?

And then we headed to my sister's house for Easter afternoon, happy to see my mom who just returned from a month is (sometimes) sunny Florida. Ella and our niece Michaela posing with Gramma- apparently purple was the color of the day. No one bothered to tell me. I was wearing blue.

Maya set right to the back yard in search of water and mud. Our 22-month-old nephew, Braeden, heard mud pies were on the menu and followered her out.

First course: moss soup served in mud broth. (See the easter baskets in use? I'm telling you, the Easter bunny is a genius.)

They tried to look like they weren't up to anything...

but we knew better.

Then, out came the hose.


Michaela reminds me of a golden retriever we used to have in this shot. He loved to eat water out of a hose.

LOVE this big sister/little brother shot.

In the end, isn't this what it's all about?