It’s Easter night, and I sit here tired out from a really great day.  We got up this morning and got ready for church before coming down to see if the Easter Bunny had visited us during the night.  When we got downstairs, the first thing Ben said was, “There’s no eggs on the plate anymore!”  He knew the bunny had hid them!  Once they saw the baskets, though, the eggs had to wait.  Both Ben and Emma were so excited to see all of their stuff.  I have to say that the bunny was very generous this year.  It seems that maybe there was more stuff than usual…maybe the bunny had some leftover toys from his Spring Break trip to Florida, or something.    Anyway, the biggest hit in the baskets were a Mickey Mouse stuffed toy for Ems and batman underpants for Ben.   The bunny hit the nail on the head with both of those items!  In fact, Ben wanted to put on a pair of his underpants immediately.  It was pretty funny.

After going through most of the basket items, it was time to find the eggs.  Ben was absolutely running around the house yelling, “there’s another one!” every time he saw an egg.  He’d carefully bring each one back to the egg plate on the kitchen table and then head out for more.  Emma, on the other hand, was much more interested in her stickers.  We got her to find a few eggs here and there, but really she would have been much more happy just continuing to stick stickers into her little notebook and ignoring the craziness with the eggs.  She did find the last one, though, because it was in her high chair.

After church, we headed out to Grandma & Grandpa Kerber’s house.  Aunt Theresa and Uncle Dan & Aunt Mary were already there, but we were still waiting for Salina and Bella to arrive before we could start our egg hunt.  Once they got there, the kids were off hunting eggs.  Ben was literally running around the farmyard yelling, laughing and screeching every time he saw another egg.  He was so excited.  Emma was definitely more into it this time, but she was just kind of methodically walking around picking up the eggs and putting them in her basket.  I guess it didn’t help that the wind was blowing hard and it nearly knocked her off her feet at times.  But she was having a lot of  fun, too.  When everything was collected from the yard, we opened up all the eggs and found out what treasures were inside.  Ben was so excited that some of his eggs had Cheetos in them!  Leave it to Aunt Theresa! 

I have to say that after the egg hunt, somehow I miraculously got this awesome picture of the two kids.

We enjoyed a great dinner and then I brought Emma home to nap.  There’s not really a place at the farm for her to get any real sleep, so this was the best solution.  Ben and Dave had work to do around the farmyard; they were trimming trees and picking a lot of stuff up for Grandma & Grandpa.  I’m not sure who loved that more…Ben or Daddy!

Emma and I went back out and we ended up staying until almost 7:00.  Poor Ben was fighting sleep so badly on the trip home, but he just couldn’t win the battle.  He was out cold when we got here.  Needless to say, they’re both out now, and I’m on my way, as well.  It was another great holiday, and again I feel lucky to have such a wonderful family.

Happy Easter, everyone!