Happy Easter!

Sunday morning we woke up early to give us plenty of time to get ready for church and have breakfast as a family. We dressed Joshua in his adorable outfit that Grandma bought him for Easter (thanks!) and I squeezed into a non-maternity dress with a maternity sweater to cover my getting-bigger-by-the-day belly. I also picked out Shawn's outfit (or at least the shirt and sweater - he didn't agree on my choice of khakis). After breakfast, we headed to church and Shawn dropped us off at the door since there was limited parking. Joshua shared snacks with Austin again and then took his little worship flag, so Shawn went and got Austin an identical one (thankfully, he's pretty easy going). Joshua, on the other hand, wasn't so easygoing. He wanted to run around the church and follow the little girls who were dancing. Then he went and grabbed someone's bottle from underneath their seat and followed someone out the back door. We sit in the very back where parents tend to let their children play during worship, but Joshua was not behaving very well. So, I took him down to the nursery awhile and played down there until worship was done. I talked to a few other moms while we were there, which was nice. As more kiddos came in, I eventually was able to sneak out and he continued to play. I heard about 15 minutes of the sermon because it ended early so folks could get prayer and go to their Easter gatherings. So, we went back down and picked up Joshua.

Then, we made a quick stop at home for our chocolate chip cheesecakes and headed to my mom's to help her load her car and then off to Becky & Tim's we headed. All my nieces were dressed adorably and Daniel had a similar outfit to Joshua. He's already crawling, too! We enjoyed a nice lunch of salad, shrimp, ham, mashed potatoes, creamed corn, veggies, applesauce, homemade rolls and dessert. Joshua feasted mostly on mom's rolls - yum! After lunch, Uncle Tim started chasing the girls around (who just love it and ask him to chase them every time they see him), and it was adorable to see Joshua jump right in. I'm not sure he understood that they were being chased, but he was loving running around with his cousins. He would stop and grin at us and then keep going around the circle of their downstairs. So cute! Then the guys went and hid Easter eggs at the playground in my sister's development, and the women stayed behind and then walked the kiddos up. Jen had filled over 100 eggs with candy and the girls scrambled to find them. This time, Joshua picked up one egg in each hand and shook them. That was it! He didn't want a bag to put them in and he didn't want the candy. He held onto his two eggs for dear life and enjoyed running around the playground. In fact, even though it was freezing once again, he highly enjoyed being outside. So, each of my nieces bags were stuffed with TONS of plastic eggs. It was fun to watch them go! Afterward, we left and came home and all three of us napped and had a lazy rest of the day. It was a nice Easter.