It is rare that we get to spend a holiday with my side of the family, so we take advantage!
First up - dying Easter eggs. I let Nate do this while Mia was napping...
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| Bad vegan mom! |
Then an Easter Egg Hunt led by my mom and Jerry's church.
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| This makes a good hat! |
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| Mia's first hunt! |
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When they let the "big kids" go Nate ran all the way to the end of the lawn.
He had it to himself for awhile, but was too interested in what was
in the eggs to get too many of them |
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| YAY eggs! |
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| Checking out their loot |
After this trip, I have decided that it is probably a good thing that, unless Peter switches industries, we will never be able to travel for Christmas. Luckily we don't go crazy with Easter baskets so everything we took fit in our suitcase, but what would we do at Christmas? Order stuff online and send it before us? Then how do we get it back? Order two and send one to our house and one to our destination? Try to ship it all back home? I don't know. For now I don't need to think about it!
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Deconstructed Easter basket!
I couldn't' find my camera when I was filling the Easter baskets.
Books, sunglasses, socks, sippy cups, utensils, snack bowls...
Nate got a lot of Lion King stuff, Mia's was kind of random. |
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| Easter breakfast! |
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| Good morning! |
We left my mom and Jerry and went to a Catholic church for the Easter service. We went to a church named after St. Francis of Assisi. It was packed! Easter Catholics and the fact that the new pope chose to name himself after this Saint (who, PS, is one of my favorites!) so we ended up sitting in the fellowship hall or something with a kind of secondary service. Weird.
After church we went home and started cooking up a storm for the arrival of the rest of the family for our Easter feast!
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| Mia sharing with Nonna |
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| The Shipman crew |
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| Cousins! Kat, Mia, Sydney and Nate |
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| Kat checks out what is inside her eggs |
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| Fisher-Starr family - Katie, Kat and Walker |
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| Easter fun! Nate and his "new friend" Sydney |
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| Geez is it hard to get them both looking good at the same time! |
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| Silly boys! |
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| Happy Easter from the Morris family! |
LOVE the Easter family picture!! Sweet, sweet times. Wish we could have been there!!
ReplyDeleteIt's so funny that you think the secondary mass is weird. At St. Philip's and St. Francis, my sisters and I would always vote to just go there and avoid the main mass. The younger, funnier, cooler priest (is there such a thing?!?) would also be doing the overflow and that's who we preferred.
ReplyDeleteHow nice that you planned your trip to spend a holiday with everyone. It's so great that all the kids are so close in age and get to grow up together.
Well, I think I've only really been to a few churches and none of them have been that big. Ours has run off with a video feed, but not a secondary (or cooler) priest. In fact, we could barely understand the guy.
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