Happy Easter!

Happy Easter to all our friends and family! We would have loved to celebrate with family, but since distance kept us apart, we present to you a quick recap of our Easter happenings here in Durham. Like tradition dictates, we began by dressing in our Easter best and trying to take an Easter photo before heading to church. Penelope hasn't been a big fan of the camera as of late, so even though we tried our hardest to capture one of her trademark smiles, we were mostly unsuccessful.

Mommy and P before church

Daddy and P

In celebration of Easter, Penelope proudly toted a beautiful peony from our garden to church

And, much to her mother's dismay, insisted that the curb next to the street and a utility pole was the perfect place for an Easter portrait.

After church we enjoyed a simple brunch together, where Penelope was thankful that I don't eat meat so that she could steal the bacon off of my plate. 

Then we sipped coffee while watching Penelope explore the restaurant's back patio. You would think that this little girl who was decked out her frilly pink poofy dress (thanks DeDe and Poppy!) would go smell the flowers or prance around the patio furniture. Not my Penelope. Instead, she went straight to dig in the rocks.

The photo below might have been a great Easter picture, but I fear the muddy hands and dirty fingernails sort of ruin it.

Hard at work sorting rocks with Daddy.

After a much needed nap, it was time for the Easter egg hunt!

Close up of the bedazzled sticker leg: a new Easter tradition

The upside of being the only participant in an egg hunt--you get to have all of the eggs!

The upside of hosting your child's first Easter egg hunt: you can only put three jelly beans in each egg and make the rule that two of the jelly beans in each egg must be given to Mommy and Daddy and your child is still ecstatic that she gets to eat one jelly bean every time she open an egg!

"Can I eat it?" 

And so ends our family's Easter celebration.