Easter 2009

Easter morning 2009, an unsuspecting Lincoln walks into the living room to find a basket awaiting him on the couch. The first thing he reaches for are the matchbox cars. These were supposed to be hidden inside of the plastic eggs instead of candy, but oops, I didn't buy big enough plastic eggs. I'll know better next year I guess.

The second thing Linc goes for is the bunny book that Grandma Swan stuck in there for him. Don't ask me why, but in order to read it Lincoln has to squat down and rest his head on the ground and look at it that way. In this picture he's coming up for air, and to turn the page.

Then he goes for the stuffed bunny. He's very excited about this (he helped me pick it out). Ivan got one just like it only brown.

After he's searched through the basket, the egg hunt begins. It didn't take too long to teach him how to find the eggs, but once Linc discovered there was candy inside we couldn't convince him to put the eggs in his basket. At first he'd open the eggs and all the candy would fall on the floor. After a couple of those, he got smart, and he'd only open the egg a tiny crack, and then he'd stick his mouth over the crack in order to get all the candy in his mouth before it could fall on the floor. Chocolate for breakfast...no big deal, it's Easter right? (Now you see why I was so upset about the cars not fitting into the eggs.)

And he's Ivan, chillin' inside of his Easter basket. Ok, so we didn't get Ivan an Easter basket, instead he got a little chair that vibrate and has fun toys hanging down from it. He also got the brown stuffed bunny mentioned earlier.

Here's Lincoln (yes, wearing his new swimming suit over his jammies) helping Ivan play with the toys on his new chair.

Lincoln also got some bubble in his Easter basket. We thought this picture was cool because it looks like Linc's head is inside the bubble.

We drove up to Hooper in the afternoon to have Easter dinner with the family. Every year my mom and Kerry do a big Easter egg hunt, and since there are only three grandkids, the oldest being Lincoln, all the big kids get to participate as well. Here's Lincoln getting ready for Papa to sound the alert for the hunt to start. Since Linc can't really compete with the big kids, he got his own special triangle in the grass where he could hunt all on his own.

My bros, Jackson and Tanner.

Aaron finds an egg in the tree.

Lincoln the pro egg finder.

Gramma Tam and Ivan stayed on the deck for the hunt.

We had a great time in Hooper. Thanks Mom and Kerry for dinner. It was so good to see all the family that was there. Bryan & Emily & Penny, and Kyle we missed you guys!