We woke up Easter morning to discover we had a visitor in the night. The Easter Bunny had come to our house! Ana spotted the “footprints” and instantly smiled and said, “wow.”

She followed the footprints into the living room and found a glorious surprise: baskets full of goodies! One was from the Easter bunny and the other was from my mom, who was spending Easter with us.

After a lovely breakfast we dressed Ana in her adorable Easter outfit and got ready to go to my sister’s house for dinner and the traditional Easter Egg Hunt!

Ana remembered just what she needed to do and grabbed her basket, ready to find some eggs. (Note the focused expression–priceless.)

Jeni had made special “Golden Eggs” for each of the kiddos. They were filled with individual surprises and had their names written on the outside. Ana’s had a couple adorable Strawberry Shortcake bracelets inside and she loves them!

The weather was really yucky on Easter so I assumed we would do the hunt inside and therefore didn’t bring Ana’s raincoat or boots. But my sister’s family are hard-core and wanted to hunt outside, so we kept Ana confined to the front porch and walkway to keep her relatively clean and dry. But it didn’t slow her down any. She gathered up all the eggs she could find!

Then we went back inside to examine our findings. Ana quickly learned (just looking around the room at the other kids) that the eggs opened, so she set to cracking them open to see what wonderful things were inside. And finally my sister taught Ana how to make her tongue turn blue by licking the Robin’s Egg candy–a time honored tradition in our family!

We had a wonderful time. It was a great holiday. You can see all the pictures here. Enjoy!