Humpty Dumpty Eats Cats. True Story.

Happy Easter, people!! We've had the best time here in just this one month. We love our new neighborhood, and EVERYONE is always outside playing which is completely opposite of Yuma because of the over 100 degree weather (and the fact that we lived in a retirement area of the city).

Anyways, yesterday our neighbor Charlie came over to help Greg with his car. Charlie told me all the kids and wives will be outside soon to play, so I got the kids all dressed and such and went outside to socialize with my neighbors. A few hours later I found myself sitting around a table with six women talking and such and a scene from desperate housewives and/or army wives came to my mind. It was nice to actually have friends who live so close and you're still close enough to home that you dont have to plan everything (baby food, Celeste's meals, etc.) We decided to have a BBQ that night.

Have I ever mentioned I'm a huge show off? I made my super awesome spinache dip that I found on the internet then modified to taste and EV-ER-Y one was going crazy about it. 

I'm also pretty sure I mentioned how much I love our neighborhood because everyone is always running around playing, tons of kids all down the street.

That's how it looks every day after 3:30pm. Pretty fantastic, really. Then it was time for the EASTER EGG HUNT!! Yaaaay! The bigger kids wanted to wait till after dark so they could so a flashlight hunt, so we separated the school age kids from little kids and had the little ones go during the day.

It was really nice seeing Celeste finally have real friends. It was also very funny cause on of the six year old boys, watching all the little ones take a picture, pointed at Celeste and told his friend, "She's so cute." Ooh my.

So we let the kids loose in the back yard across the street.

In the middle of it all, Celeste said, "my bag is too heavy.." and the next thing I knw she was surrounded by three of the older boys holding her bag and helping her pick up eggs.

I'm going to tell Greg it's time to polish his shotgun and hang it on the living room wall now.

Soon after that, Caleb decided it was time for him to go to bed, so I took him home while Celeste played with the older kids with Daddy, who was helping a small group play fliashlight tag after the big kid egg hunt.

This morning we discovered th EASTER BUNNY CAME!!

Caleb got a toy phone,

and Celeste got a beautiful cross necklace...her first one.

We all got ourselves dressed up and polished and went down to the club for some Easter Morning Brunch. The Easter bunny was there, and they did an egg hun after our delicious breakfast.

Greg and I thought the bunny looked funny, like he's running away from Greg and his gun, screaming.



It was a pretty good day, and we'll probably have ANOTHER family egg hunt after nap time.

*On a side note, I now associate Easter with my Dad's death. Last year the night before Easter, instead of putting out baskets and telling stories to my child, I was sobbing on the couch far away from my home. Instead of celebrating the beauty of life and rebirth, I was mourning. It was snowy and cold and horrible. This year still brought a pain in my heart, but I was able to be with my wonderful family and celebrate the life of Jeus Christ, and be with my family. I will always miss my dad.