Easter Dessert/ Birthday Cake

After we finished playing at the park and blowing bubbles, we went back to Ed's apartment where we had a Cookie Dough Ice Cream Cake from Cold Stone. It doubled as an Easter dessert as well as a birthday cake for me since Ed won't be able to make it home for my birthday. It was very delicious. A great end to a great day. I am blessed to have such a wonderful family. Once the dessert was consumed, both girls had no problem crashing! Within minutes, they both were sound asleep...arms above their head...just like daddy!

Bubble Party

The Easter Bunny brought both girls some bubbles, with blowers. Once we decided that the park was starting to lose its appeal, we walked to an open area and started blowing bubbles. No matter how old one gets, bubbles never seem to lose their appeal! Ed and I had just as much fun as the girls! 

Park Party

After Easter dinner, we went to the park off of Vista in Boise. It was entirely too busy, but enjoyable none-the-less. The girls ran around and got all sweaty. Lovely! As all of you know, Elayna tends to be our accident prone child, however, this endeavor proved that her agility rivals Hannah's. Elayna managed to leave the park unscathed while Hannah had two significant injury moments. As Hannah was running past one of the toys a "big" kid jumped off the top and landed squarely on her. She half rolled her ankle as well as had a scuff mark on her shoulder and possibly the wind knocked out of her. Sensing that we wanted to check the damage and potentially head home if it was too serious, she ran off pretending nothing happened. The next incident occured when Elayna blasted across the balance beam without so much as a wiggle. Hannah, not to be outdone, also blasted across the balance beam. HOWEVER, her dismount proved to be lacking. She landed on her side rather than her feet. Besides those though, the night was fabulous. Hannah attempted her first 'underdog' with Elayna on the swing...a success. They scaled many obstacles, and bounced down many slides. Great night.

Easter Morning

Easter morning came earlier than we thought. We got up at 5:30am to attend 7:00am mass at St. Mark's in Boise. It was a very elaborate church...and rather empty. They had masses at 8:30 and 11:00 as well. Our thinking was that the 7:00 would be less full and hopefully quicker. Elayna still struggles to get through mass without getting antsy. In any case, our thinking ended up being right, we actually had a whole pew to ourselves! I think that is the first time we have ever had a pew to ourselves! In any case, the girls were excited to get their baskets and, of course, to dress up all
'fancy'. BEAUTIFUL!

Conlin's Easter Birthday!

It's not that often that one gets their birthday on Easter Sunday! It has happened twice in my life and will again in the near future. However, Conlin will only get one Easter birthday in our lifetime. To celebrate the joyous occasion, Sara and Josh through a fabulously huge Easter birthday party. It started out with general play time, then turned into a big Easter egg hunt. Elayna was lucky enough to get one of the magic eggs with a prize within it. Of course, she chose a bubble blower. Afterwards, the kids enjoyed delicious food. Elayna was only interested in the fruit, but that is to be expected with her. Finally, they threw hollowed out eggs filled with confetti at their fence. I did my best to capture the picture, it wasn't a bad photo. After the party was over, Elayna quickly crashed. She was asleep before we even got home!