Reeves' First Easter

Almost a week overdue, I am finally blogging about my child's first Easter. Easter Bunny decided to take this year off and chose instead to have his cohort, Me, spend the money on his 10 month portrait. We were very lucky and were able to go with Preston to have a couple of shots of the two of them. We went to Portrait Innovations and, of course, gave in to the overwhelming urges and got one of the packages. How weak am I!? Oh well, at least I got the CD with the pics on it. It is like Sophie's Choice. You choose the one pose, and the rest of those darling pictures of your precious child are deleted, gone, clicked away, not even into purgatory, but all the way down to the seventh level, never to be seen again. Oh, the inhumanity! I have yet to be able to walk away with the one pose package, and to those of you who can do it, I salute you. Anyway, here are some of those pics. I wish instead of 5x7, 8x10, 3x5, and wallets (oh, and the poster size, which always goes on the fridge), they would come out with a wrapping paper option, because that is what we are going to have to endup doing with all of these leftover pictures. Lord knows, I can't throw them away!

So, back to Easter.... We went to the 11:00 church service. Reeves was good for about 15 minutes. - I am still a virgin nursery mom. I need to get there! - Then he decided to go ostiechthyse on me. I have a newfound respect for those fish mongers. Luckily, it was happy movements, but disruptive nonetheless. So this is how Reeves spent most of his first Easter church service.

We went to Morn and Casey's for Easter dinner. This was truly a milestone event because it marks the first time any major family holiday dinner has moved to a house belonging to one of our generation. Everything went great. The house and the yard looked wonderful. Despite the lack of sod in the backyard - who would have ever predicted the immigration march and subsequent strikes would have hit so close to home?

Our first family Easter picture.

Poor Leeze wasn't feeling very well, but she was still as charming as ever. She has learned two new faces.

Cold (imagine a bit of shaking going on here)

Mean (to which Morn always replies, "I've seen meaner." Leeze thinks this is hilarious.)

Reeves got a pretty good nap, despite Miller's best efforts to keep him awake - ie, slamming the front door with his foot! Haha! And as luck would have it, his nap fell during dinner. It was so nice to be able to truly enjoy the meal. Of course, the food was all too good, and we all ate way too much. We couldn't have asked for a better Easter, except to have had Reagan and Sarah there. They were truly missed.

After dinner, Miller and Lol had convinced us to walk/run the bridge. What a great idea, and I just happened to have the clothes in my car. I am so glad we did this. It felt so good to go to bed after some exercise rather than a gorgefest.

We missed Miller on the bridge. I can understand, walking with all those chicks - but Reeves was there. We'll get you next time!! And we still love you!

And you had to be tired from all that climbing! I could never do it - too scared of heights!

Hope you all had a wonderful Easter!