Skyla's First Easter!

We did lots of fun stuff together for Skyla's first Easter.  First, we brought back an old family tradition and made Easter eggs, but with our own twist: we made holes in the eggs and blew them out into bowls, so we were left with perfect hollow eggs.  Kaylee and Charlie also made special Easter bread with Grandma, then Grandpa helped us decorate the eggs.

Easter morning came and we helped Skyla discover the most exciting part of the holiday: getting an Easter basket!  It was a little hard for me to put together something she would like (and hard to resist all the stuff in the stores that she's way too young for!) but she seemed pretty happy with it.

After our exciting morning we got all dressed up and went to church.  We took my grandma and she was very excited (she said she hasn't missed an Easter service in over 40 years!)  We had a wonderful time.  The pastor did a nice service and she is just so full of joy you feel happy just by being in the same room as her. All the children of the congregation did a beautiful ceremony called a flower communion, and they gave everyone in the church a flower -- it was amazing!  Afterwards we went to the park across the street for a huge Easter egg hunt, with the Easter bunny himself leading the way!

Right after that we went home for a family brunch, with the quiche from the Easter eggs we made, Caesar salad, my mom's yummy bread, and (FINALLY!) cheese (for those of you who don't know, Tory gave up cheese for Lent, so we had lots of fun indulging).  One final Easter egg hunt in the backyard and then we took a much deserved nap as a family :)

What an absolutely perfect day.  Skyla, I hope your first Easter was as perfect as you!