Easter Day

The Atkisson Family Easter, much like we have made most holiday traditions, was very low key and relaxed.... just the way we like it. With a baby (ok, toddler) and nap schedules, we still need to be pretty flexible, so maybe "tradition" is a term that should be still used rather loosely- but we have certain things that we try to stick to, just what time of day they may fall tends vary a bit from year to year.... this too shall pass in the next couple of years.

Our morning started with a visit from the Easter Bunny, and the boys getting their baskets full of gifts and an egg hunt at home. Well, actually, the Bunny went a little overboard this year, and the gifts didn't actually fit in the baskets, so maybe I should be honest and admit that they got their couch full of gifts vs. their baskets... but that's beside the point, right?

We were kind of surprised at how much Rhylan understood about the whole thing this year. He actually looked for the eggs and put them in his basket, and would run looking for the next one while delightfully squealing "EGG, EGG". It was so cute.

Here are a couple of pictures of them hunting for eggs here at home, and a quick video of when they first come into the great room and saw what the Bunny had left for them.

Then it was off to church for us. After the service they had an Egg Hunt for the kids there as well, which was really cute. It was broken up by age group, to keep it a bit more fair. Hopefully I will have a few more pictures of Brayden from a friend to add here in a couple of days. I couldn't be two places at once, so I couldn't get a picture of him hunting :(.

Here is Rhylan with some of the other children under 3:

And here they are checking out their loot:

This afternoon, while Rhylan took his nap, Brayden and I had a play date with some good friends that it had been far too long since either of us had gotten together with. It was so nice to sit and relax with my "mommy friend" while our boys got to play together. A wonderful afternoon.

When we got home, we made our traditional Easter Breakfast (see I told you "traditions" have to be flexible, but they can still be traditions. LOL.) for dinner..... Easter Bunny Pancakes. As always, quite the hit.

Happy Easter 2009.