Easter 2012

    Wow! What a wonderful, fabulous, busy, fun day!  Easter for the Kane family actually started Friday night.  Northside does a Friday service for Easter which is fabulous and necessary for our family this time of year.  Chris had a double header Saturday against Borden and then Chrissie, Nick, Chris and I had tickets to the Reds for opening weekend.  Sunday is SO crazy for us...we start early so church on Sunday isn't an option either.  After a wonderful message from George, Chrissie and Nick headed back to mom and dad's with us for pizza...(we still make sure we have Pizza Friday as often as we can even though things are crazy :) 
    Easter morning actually started about 8:15 when Camryn woke up in a great mood and was ready to jump down and find the dogs (the same way she starts every day :).  Cammie woke up and we gave her all of her Easter goodies.

C's Easter Basket (filled with rain boots, animal crackers, books, hair clips, Crayola Color Wonder (she is love with coloring) and  big girl panties for this summer (I am determined she will be potty-trained before I go back to work :)

And the best present of all.....the Cozy Coupe (I just used Easter as an excuse to buy the toy she absolutely loves!)

One of the first things she did...put her crayons in it....of course in 20 minutes the car had crayon marks....drives my Type A personality crazy :)

Coloring inside the Cozy Coupe (combining her 2 favorite things)

Our princess :)

     We had to quickly get showered and dressed to be on the road by 9:40.  We went to visit Aunt Bug, Uncle Richard, Xav. and the rest of the Vogel family for a few extra hugs, laughs, pictures and fun before going to Chris' grandparent's house for Easter.  I wish they lived a little closer...we just don't get to see them enough. :( C absolutely loves their farm!  

Cautiously looking at the baby goats...she actually was very timid and scared around them

Aunt Bug and Bonnie trying super hard to get C to pet them...she was having none of it

The famous Xavier :)

The snapping turtle Xav caught last week....it's a monster!

Lovin' on Cleo...C wanted to pet the big goats, just not the babies????

Giving Skittle the Raccoon high-fives....I know it seems crazy, but they have had the raccoon since it was a baby.....it's crazy how soft their hands are :)

Leading dad back to the goats :)

Lookin' at the goats....She loves it there!

Calling Cleo and trying to get as close to them as possible :)

     Next, we headed to Chris' grandparent's for lunch.  Chris' dad's side of the family is very large.  We typically don't see everyone, but a few times per year.  It is so nice to visit and catch up with everyone.  After lunch C headed to the park with her cousins and Aunt Carmel, while Bug tried to teach me how to use my high-tech camera.  There is SO much to learn.  I am just going to have to bear down and take a class.  I want to be able to catch the best of every single memory. :)  (Of course I had my camera out trying to learn how to use it, but didn't take any pictures....just silly!)  Around 3:30 C had had about all she could take and we headed towards home.  She was asleep before we hit the main highway in North Vernon. :)
     Easter just happened to fall on the same day as my Aunt Tammy's birthday.  Tammy and C are super close so we met her, Granny, mom, dad, Nick and my cousin for dinner at Mike Linnings in Louisville.  I hate going there because I eat terrible, but they have some of the best fried fish!  It was a cool afternoon, but we had a great time celebrating her special day.  Mammy (as Camryn calls her) took C to the playground before we even got our food.  If you have kept up with us at all you know C is in love with playgrounds these days.  She actually returned to the table without too much of a fight and ate a decent dinner.  We headed right back after she ate so she could swing and enjoy the last of the nice afternoons we were scheduled to have for a few days.

Uncle Walt (Nick) pushing her on the swings

Her new favorite pastime :)

So big and so much fun!

<3 love this face...."wheee!!!"

3 of my favorite people :)

Of course we can't leave out climbing up and down stairs :)

     At 7:30 we were finally headed home for the day.  The three of us including Camryn were pretty tuckered, but Nana insisted that C have the opportunity to hunt Easter eggs.  (She always loved that when Nick and I were little. :)  While C was downstairs playing she hid the eggs around the upstairs living room.  After spotting an egg she was very inquisitive about this process.  She was very excited to open them and find M & M's (her favorite candy inside).  After a few treats and a little prompting she successfully found all of the eggs.

A little help from the dogs....Brohdi and Josie are always in the middle of whatever is going on

Showing Nana the eggs she found :)

Hunting Eggs