AAA's 11th Birthday

Sweet AAA turned ELEVEN years old this past weekend. I can't believe it has been ELEVEN YEARS since she was born! She is as sweet as ever and I am so blessed to be her mom!

We will celebrate her birthday this weekend at the lake with friends. However, we did want to celebrate on her actual birthday, so we let pick out her favorite restaurant for dinner.

And Cheeburger Cheeburger was her first choice!!


AAA and her sweet and fun friend...

They split the half pounder and made it to the Wall of Fame!

Our waitress surprised her with a Banana Split.

Kat struck a pose while the camera was clicking!

All of the kids afterwards, fat and happy!

Next stop....Yogurt Mountain! Yippee!!

Mama and her Birthday Girl!

I was so sad when I saw this pic! I didn't know she was being all silly during our one picture of the year together!

Silly Sunshine!

Thanking God for the past eleven years and asking for his blessings on her this next year!

Easter Egg Hunt #2 and Counting...

Sunshine had her second Easter Egg Hunt this week. Terrible weather was in the forecast, but it turned out to be a BEAUTIFUL day!! Thank goodness for the "only get twelve eggs" rule. Otherwise, she wouldn't have any eggs! Talk about a laid back egg hunter! She's stroll on over to an egg, gently place her basket on the ground next to the egg, then slowly reach for the egg, only to have it quickly grabbed by a more eager egg-hunter. When she finally found her first egg, she dusted it off before she put it in her basket! The "crazy mom" in me wanted to yell, "Get with it! Quit dusting off your eggs and RUN, for goodness sake!" But the more "civilized mom" in me refrained, thankfully. And thanks to the rules, Sunshine hunted a dozen lovely eggs!

Two hunts down, three to go. Plus 48 cupcakes and 24 bunny treat bags. Believe it or not, I'm going to bed early and will bake and stuff eggs in the morning! This bunny is beat!

Easter Egg-travaganza 2011

We spent this past weekend in Tennessee at the family's annual Easter Eggstravaganza. We've done this every Palm Sunday weekend for the past eleven years. In fact, AAA was born the day after we returned from our first Easter Eggstravaganza, and we haven't missed one since! The Easter Eggtravaganza is bigger than Christmas (or at least equal to Christmas!). Of course, a great time was had by ALL!!

Nice...(AAA blowing up a rubber chicken)
What kid doesn't love a cookie cake?!

Sweet cousin!

Enjoying lunch...

More sweet cousins..

Everyone enjoyed Uncle Ken's infamous homemade pizzas!

Quack!

(I'm not sure what kind of face this is!)

Smile!

Aunt Ann (aka the "Easter Seal") with the two golden egg winners!

Sunshine always smiling!

Looking for the golden egg.

My Easter baby.

I LOVE this pic!

Kit Kat!

Li'l Man hunting for the golden egg in a tree!

Kit Kat hunted only light pink eggs.

The starting line. And they're off..........

The cousins with their aunt, the Easter Seal. :)

Happy Easter!