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The girls woke up this morning to a couple of very sweet Easter Baskets that the Easter Bunny had left for them in their room sometime during the night. Earlier in the week we had written an email to the Easter Bunny to let him know that we would be at Grandma and Grandpa's house again this year, so he could just hide the eggs at their house. Well, he must be a very "connected" bunny, because he did just as the girls requested. They had a ball running around Mom's yard looking for all the plastic eggs. Thank goodness the rain waited until after the egg hunt!

Yum -- a Reses egg, a chocolate bunny, a pez, a Easter water globe, and a small stuffed bunny.

Here they are just before we got into the car to go to Church. They brought their baskets so they could have them for the egg hunt at Grandma's later. By the way, we did something very special this year that I wanted to share -- we filled a little cardboard "rice bowl" with money throughout the Lent season. Our Church would be collecting the offerings during Holy Week and would be using the money to buy rice (and other items, I'm sure) to families in Central America that are less fortunate than us. The girls were very gracious and put money in the bowl each night. This morning we dropped off our rice bowl at our Church -- it felt really good and used the moments to teach the girls such a wonderful life lesson.

Geez -- Audriana was moving at lightening speed this year and her basket filled up very quickly

Sofia did a fabulous job collecting and finding eggs, too!

On the hunt!


Money and candy were found in the eggs! Wow!

Such sweet angels........

After a big meal, Audriana and Daddy headed outside to practice ball. Sofia decided to take a nap -- after all, all that egg hunting takes a lot out of a 3 year old!