Easter Celebrations started early for us. We had more of an Easter Weekend Celebration than an Easter Day Celebration. It all started on Friday.
After work Friday, I came home and we had a visit from Little Bear's Great Aunt Debbie. She had a special basket just for her. Of course the Little Bear dived into it too quickly and I couldn't take a snapshot before she attacked it. The aftermath of said basket was this.....
Aunt Debbie filled the basket with a ton of water squirting toys, a pretty floral sundress, a blue marshmellow peep and a few packs of the Welch's Fruit Snacks that she loves.
Little Bear and I had at least two hours of paper filling throwing fun after the festivities were over. Oh the fun that was had and the mess that was made. LOL! I'm just glad it was the paper filling and not that plastic stuff. After the clean up we baked cupcakes together and called it a night.
Saturday we spent the day decorating the cupcakes with yellow icing and Easter/Spring Sprinkles. Oh did she enjoy that!!!! But certainly not as much as the Easter Egg Dying fun that was to be had next. Little Bear just LOVES to dye the eggs. Last year, she only dyed a dozen. This year she dyed two dozen. Too bad it did not last very long. She was so excited that she went through them all in about 10 minutes or less. Crazy right?
Yes, my friends, there is a lot of blue and green in there. Little Bear was given tons of colors to chose from. We had Yellow, Blue, Green, Dusty Rose, Violet and Teal. For some reason this year's purple and pink didnt come out very well - not that it would have mattered. Little Bear's favorite color is Blue right now and she associates the dark colors with Blue too so it was only natural for us to have the eggs be mostly that.
I do believe Saturday was exceptionally fun for Little Bear and I'm glad she had such a fun-filled and exciting day. I know Saturday night this Momma Bear was POOPED!!! I think I fell asleep as soon as we put her to bed - 8:30 because I woke up at 10-something and realized I still had to fill the Easter Eggs and get her basket together. Yikes!
Easter Sunday, Little Bear awoke to a purple (her other favorite color) easter egg in the middle of her bedroom floor. "Mommy, what's that?" she said. To which I responded "The Easter Bunny must have come last night. Let's go see." We went to brush our teeth and "Oh My! He must have came, look there's an egg on your stool." Oh the excitment was building for this little one. She found one more on the landing of our steps and then when we got down the steps she saw all the eggs throughout the family room and living room. (We had our hunt indoors because it was way too cold outside). She loved that she never knew what she would find in the eggs -- stickers, jelly beans or money!
Little Bear was so excited that she didn't even realize the Easter Bunny visited the kitchen and put a special basket for her on the table. Silly Little Bear.
After work Friday, I came home and we had a visit from Little Bear's Great Aunt Debbie. She had a special basket just for her. Of course the Little Bear dived into it too quickly and I couldn't take a snapshot before she attacked it. The aftermath of said basket was this.....
Aunt Debbie filled the basket with a ton of water squirting toys, a pretty floral sundress, a blue marshmellow peep and a few packs of the Welch's Fruit Snacks that she loves.
Little Bear and I had at least two hours of paper filling throwing fun after the festivities were over. Oh the fun that was had and the mess that was made. LOL! I'm just glad it was the paper filling and not that plastic stuff. After the clean up we baked cupcakes together and called it a night.
Saturday we spent the day decorating the cupcakes with yellow icing and Easter/Spring Sprinkles. Oh did she enjoy that!!!! But certainly not as much as the Easter Egg Dying fun that was to be had next. Little Bear just LOVES to dye the eggs. Last year, she only dyed a dozen. This year she dyed two dozen. Too bad it did not last very long. She was so excited that she went through them all in about 10 minutes or less. Crazy right?
I do believe Saturday was exceptionally fun for Little Bear and I'm glad she had such a fun-filled and exciting day. I know Saturday night this Momma Bear was POOPED!!! I think I fell asleep as soon as we put her to bed - 8:30 because I woke up at 10-something and realized I still had to fill the Easter Eggs and get her basket together. Yikes!
Easter Sunday, Little Bear awoke to a purple (her other favorite color) easter egg in the middle of her bedroom floor. "Mommy, what's that?" she said. To which I responded "The Easter Bunny must have come last night. Let's go see." We went to brush our teeth and "Oh My! He must have came, look there's an egg on your stool." Oh the excitment was building for this little one. She found one more on the landing of our steps and then when we got down the steps she saw all the eggs throughout the family room and living room. (We had our hunt indoors because it was way too cold outside). She loved that she never knew what she would find in the eggs -- stickers, jelly beans or money!
Little Bear was so excited that she didn't even realize the Easter Bunny visited the kitchen and put a special basket for her on the table. Silly Little Bear.
Daddy and I pointed her to the direction of her Easter Basket and all the more fun began! The Easter Bunny fully intended not to give too much candy but she couldn't resist. Needless to say, the Little Bear was extremely estatic.
After all the sugar and excitment wore off from the Easter Morning Madness we were soon off to Grandmom and Pop-Pop's house where Little Bear was going to have yet another Easter Egg Hunt and Basket.
After Little Bear's egg hunt and basket opening (she also was given that outside picnic table as an Easter gift also) the entire family sat down to a nice Easter Feast....yummy ham, baked potatoes and all the fixings. All and all we had one fabulous Easter Weekend and I know the Little Bear enjoyed it ten fold.
Hope all of you had an awesome Easter weekend!!!
