Easter Pictures

Here's some pictures of our Easter festivities.
Turns out, Maia doesn't like jelly beans, only chocolate. This morning, I found a nice half-chewed jelly bean lodged firmly in the carpet not far from where this picture was taken.

We had church early, only one service at 9:30 instead of our usual Good Shepherd at 9:00 and Mercy service at 10:45. We came home and the kids got to have an easter egg hunt with Dad doing the hiding while Mom cooked dinner. It wasn't a very long hunt, considering Matt hid all the eggs in the living room... granted, there's not a whole lot of other options if you want to find the eggs - the kids' room is too messy, our room and the bathroom would have been acceptable, but the basement was definitely off limits! We were interested in finding the eggs sooner rather than later! Xander found many more eggs than Maia, not a big surprise there!

The kids had a babysitter Saturday night, because Matt & I went out on a date! They dyed Easter eggs together, but the eggs never got put back in the refrigerator, so they went bad overnight, and didn't really appeal to us as deviled eggs, even though I went through all the trouble of making them. Yum. Rotten deviled eggs. But they were pretty!

Our date was fun, as a Christmas/Valentine's gift to each other, we went to see Blue Man Group, How to Be a Megastar 2.0. It was really fun. That's some wacky performance art!

The kids got bikes for Easter. Matt was itching for them both to have nice bikes. Never mind that neither one of them can ride a bike yet... Xander got a cool BMX bike,

...but he's not ready to go without training wheels yet. Hopefully by the end of the summer. He spent a lot of time out on his old bike yesterday and today practicing up and down the driveway.
Maia got a precious little 12" Trek in metallic pink with streamers on the handlebars and a basket on the front. She knows how to sit on it and looks like she'll just take off, but she can't figure out how to make her legs do the right thing. I'm sure it's really amusing to watch either me or Matt hold onto her feet and try to show her how to pedal while following along. Rather an awkward posture. The weather certainly wasn't very warm, so we bundled everyone up and rode bikes in our coats!