Easter Sunday . . .

I hope that everyone had a wonderful holiday weekend with their families :)  We woke up and Lillie with every negative part of her body she found her Easter bag. . . Luckily the Easter Bunny  had a winning moment and she loved her gifts :) :)

Swedish Fish, Soleil Razors, Iphone Cases, Bracelets, Shirts from Rue21, EOS lip balm, and Flip Flops

 . . . and then we were off early to head down to Farmington to have an Easter brunch with John's family. John's step mother Karen puts on this amazing spread every holiday. We had oven baked french toast. . vanilla bean scones. . fruit . . . cheesy potatoes . . chocolate  chip cheese cake and I'm sure I'm missing something but it was like heaven in my tummy! I got a little creative this year and dipped peeps into chocolate and then added some festive sprinkles and threw them on a stick . .  they turned out pretty darn good and the kids loved them and anything with chocolate and marshmallows . . . I'm down for!!

Then after eating my father in law puts on this easter egg hunt . . . I believe he had filled 300+ eggs with candy and money for the kids to find. It's fun watching John's little cousins do the hunt and I can't wait for one day for my little baby to run around his yard looking for those filled eggs . . . It excites me to know end thinking about holidays again with little ones . . .

I think it's safe to say this will be her last year participating int the egg hunt :( 

After spending the morning with them it's back in the car to come home to Lapeer to have dinner with my mom's side of the family. .  That's were I've gone my whole life for every single holiday.. We have a large family and everyone travels to come back to Lapeer to my grandmas house. My Uncle Doc is truly a wonderful cook and his holiday cooking is my favorite!! I look forward to every holiday to be surrounded with family and catch up with my cousins and aunts and uncles that I don't usually get to see unless its a holiday.. But since my grandma has passed away ( it has been 2 years yesterday) every holiday seems to be getting smaller and smaller. It's so sad to me see this happening but I know that we are all getting older and have our own little families. . I guess I've always thought that no matter what things would always be the same.

Lillie is getting older and the holidays seem to be just like any other day of the week.. "I have no idea where she gets this from because I'm the complete opposite" . . . I go way out and celebrate BIG for every holiday!! It hurts my heart and it saddens me to no end but I pray this is just a phase and that she understands the real meaning of holidays and will join in the magic with her momma of celebrating them :)

Easter Sunday 

" PS. I know I'm a little late with this post but I had to work yesterday so. . . here it is!"

XO