{Easter Day}

The Easter Bunny came!

After church we had a couple friends over for an Easter Egg hunt for the kiddos and then had a fabulous ham dinner with all the fixins.

this face is amazing.

I love us.

Hope you all had a Happy Easter!

{Dying Easter Eggs}

I love love love dying Easter eggs. Unfortunately, we haven't done it for the last two years because last Easter we were busy getting Sean ready for graduation and packing up our apartment to move across the country. The year before we were getting me ready for graduation, I was pregnant, and we were packing up our itty bitty apartment to move to a slightly bigger apartment to make room for our little hooligan.

This year I was very very adamant that we were going to dye eggs. 3 years in a row would just be torture.

It was awesome! Evette was a huge fan of it. She was very curious at first....

 ...but got into it pretty quick.

 Hands stained by dye.... I figured out the best way to clean your hands afterwards - baking soda and water. Make a paste and scrub scrub scrub. It works like magic!!!

She wasn't always the most gentle placing the eggs in the cups....

...and sometimes she was just a little eager....

  But it was awesome.

{Family Easter Pictures / 18 mo pictures}

I was going to go to the arboretum to take some pictures of the Babbs for some cute Easter photos slash her 18 mo pictures, and then the husband suggested that I wait until he could go, too, and then we could dress up and get pictures of all of us. Fabulous idea! The only thing was that I got my haircut later that afternoon [5 inches off] and I wish we had taken pictures after that, but the schedule didn't work out that way, sooooo oops.

Here we are!

Look at those eyebrows!

Charge!

Running on a hill is tricky.....

Look at this quirky little firecracker!

This is us last Easter - look how we've changed!

Daddy-daughter date

On Friday night I took Evette out for our first daddy-daughter date. It was kind of spur of the moment but she didn't seem to mind my lack of planning.

We went out to our neighborhood pizza place (Tony's) and had a great time. On the walk there, Evette rode on my shoulders most of the way which meant lots of fingers going into my ears - she finds this hilarious, I don't particularly like it but I enjoy making her laugh! I got her to stop by holding her hands and then leaning side-to-side and front-to-back precariously. She found that hilarious, too, so no more finger jabs to my brain.

Dinner itself was pretty good. The only problem was the bread stick appetizers were so good (and plentiful) that Evette ate her fill on those before pizza even arrived.

Oh, and raisins, too. Which she dipped in her pizza sauce. Naturally. 

She ate about two bites of pizza so I only had time to eat one slice myself.  It was a pretty quiet dinner - most of her attention was devoted to watching and waving at everyone around us - but it was still nice to be with her.

Then she showed off some of her animal noises to the girls in the table next to ours and we took off. We walked home up the ally and she had a great time playing with rocks while I carried the nearly full box of pizza home.

After Evette went to bed Heidi and I had our own date (double win for me!) and ate a bunch of pizza.

It was a simple night but it was really good for me. I'm starting to view Evette as a dear friend, an aspect to our relationship I've been excited for forever but one I was not honestly expecting to come so soon. She's wonderful! I have half a mind to write some gushy notes here on how much I love her and how her hugs make my heart melt and how her kisses are the bright spots of my day and how every time she says "Dadda" my heart skips a beat and how her smile throws the rest of the world out the window and narrows my attention on her little frame - but I can't do those feelings justice.

I'm a dad and I love it.