Happy Easter 2009.

I hope everyone had a great Easter. We had a nice, quiet day at home with some of our family. My mom and grandma stayed the night on Saturday and my mom fixed our Easter dinner/lunch on Sunday. Emma had a great time keeping grandma and great-grandma entertained. When we awoke on Easter morning Emma and Ken opened their easter baskets; Ken was like "yeah whatever," then enjoyed watching Emma go through her basket. Then it was time for the Easter egg hunt. Just a little hunt in the backyard for Emma, we went to the Ellensburg Kiwanas Easter egg hunt Friday evening, it was pretty nice (of note for you dog lovers, before the kids egg hunt they had a doggie bone hunt for people who wanted to bring their dogs out too). So Emma is out hunting for her eggs and stops in the middle of the yard and says "mommy, when did the Easter bunny come and lay all these eggs out here?" Ummm, I told her he came early that morning, but I don't think that bunnies lay eggs, he probably just had the eggs in a basket and dropped them out onto the lawn. Hahaha! My mom cooked a great prime rib dinner, it was delicious! We had a great time with our family; my Aunt Betty and Uncle Evert came over too. In case you need another laugh, here are some more quips from my little Emma. Emma to Uncle Evert; "Uncle Evert, did you know that you have hair in your nose?" Emma to Great-grandma; "Here is a present for you, don't open it until you get home because it's a surprise. It's a piece of candy, but you'll forget that by the time you get home." We all had a good Easter. My husband Wayne spent most of the day outside trying to finish our chicken coop. Bad news; still not done yet. Good news; it's almost done and the chickens get to live in there now instead of the small cage that they were in. They seem happier to have some space to peck around in. Hopefully by this fall they will start to lay eggs!


Emma and Ken with mommy.

All tuckered out from the festivities.

Really mom. Do I have to wear these things?

Look at the pretty eggs I found.

Happy Easter from my little Easter bunnies.

Emma bunny.

Look at all the cool stuff that the Easter bunny

brought for me!

Emma's 4th birthday.

Well, I'm still catching up on rest after the EVENT that was "Emma's 4th birthday party." The party was on Saturday, but the night before, my good friend Kristin and her 5 yo daughter came and had a sleepover with us. Emma and Kristin's daughter Mackenzi had a great time playing and staying up late talking and giggling. The next day, was Emma's Snow White birthday party. There were around 8 girls ranging in age from 3-10yrs. There is a place out of Yakima that you can rent a cartoon character to come to your birthday party, so of coarse Snow White came to our party. She stayed for 1 hour and played parachute games with the girls, did their make up, made balloon magic wands and played hide and seek with the girls. All the girls were thoroughly entertained the entire time. It was so cool. The girl who came as Snow White did such a wonderful job with the girls and they all seemed to love it, especially Emma. After Snow left, we ate some snacks and had cake ( a Snow White cake of coarse). Then Emma opened her gifts and the girls played awhile and then everyone left. And then momma had the huge task of cleaning the house up!! Atleast Emma and Ken were pretty wiped out from the party and went to bed early so I was able to get things done. It was such a great day and I hope you enjoy the pics.
Jacki.