Easter in Fillmore

I know Easter was a while back but I finally have the camera back with pictures. We had a fun time once we got to Fillmore and the bead was removed from Ellie's nose. We could relax and enjoy the family that came to visit. We love going to my Aunt's house. Andrey helped them build parts of it when we were dating, so it's fun to go and see it finished-to have seen it step by step to its completion. Anywho...we all made a delicious turkey dinner and ate that. After, while the kids were playing, all the adults went into Wendy's (my aunt) room and played Easter bunny. We all got a pile of candy and eggs in front of us and began stuffing them and writing the names of all the children on them (Sorry for those that still believe in the Easter bunny). We finished this around 11. The girls were so excited togo swimming at the Hotel, so we had a late night, swimming until close to 1 A.M. (bad mom, I know). We had so much fun though letting them jump to us and enjoy the warm water. We then zonked out and were ready in the morning for the Easter egg hunt . All the kids got their bags and began looking for their eggs and were so excited to see the the goodies that were in them. It's fun for Emma now that she knows how to spell her name, so she got to go searching on her own for her eggs. Ellie, on the other hand, just wanted the candy, so whatever egg was in front of her-she would open and start eating away. She needed a little more supervision. The adults all found their goodie bags and we all drove over to the Fillmore Museum property and all the kids got to have another easter egg hunt with all the children in the town. That was a little more exciting for them to see the Easter bunny sitting on a chair with candy in his hands. A little overwhelming for the girls to see that there really was an Easter Bunny. Ellie had no problem going up and grabbing candy, but Emma just admired him from a distance.

We had a fun tour of the museum and were ready to head back to the house when a big bunny came in. Ellie and Emma watched him with their mouths wide open but then to their surprise, the bunny reached up and removed his head. That really go the girls going. Emma sat there for a while staring, trying to figure out what just happened. Ha, Ha. They followed him down the hall where he sat down and continued to remove his costume. Emma was sure confused, so it was a long night explaining that that was the the Easter Bunnie's helper. "Thanks a lot bunny!"

We watched a movie while eating lunch and then headed home. We stopped at the cemetary and looked up some of Andrey's family that the had found whilde doing geneology and got some pictures. We got our favorite-Arbys dinner and enjoyed the beautiful rainy ride home while the girls slept after their long night. They had fun being able to swim again that day and were pooped. It was a fun easter, and they had a great time Sunday with the egg hunt at our house and at Grandma Sampson's.

There favorite surprise that day was their new Easter dresses. They felt so pretty going to church that day.

I hope everyone had a happy, fun, Easter! (more pictures from Fillmore will be put on shortly).