Still More Easter!

Here's a couple shots I got right before we left for church. Those two were just workin' it for the camera!

Here's a couple of early Easter morning shots. Boone got a little purple stuffed Easter bunny from his basket from their school parties. It's been a huge hit around our house. Boone likes to chew on the ears and get them all soggy and Piper likes to snuggle with it and push it around in her stroller.

Here's a shot of the chocolate and candy starting to kick in! Note: this picture was taken around 6am Easter morning. The Hitch household was in full swing by then.

More Easter Fun

Happy Easter!

We had quite an eventful Easter weekend this year. Ger and I were both able to take Friday off, and it was wonderful to have the extra family day together (the weekends are just too short these days).

So, we kicked off the weekend with a visit to the Easter Bunny. Before you scroll down and see this picture, a little background. We waited until really late this year to start hunting for somewhere to have a picture with the Easter bunny. But in the past, all the area malls always have the Easter Bunny, so I thought "no worries". Well to my surprise the two places we've been in the past for pictures (Santa or Easter Bunny) were both not having it this year. What??!! And the only other place I could find, another mall, is over an hour from our house, which seemed a bit far. So I ended up calling the trusty ole local Wal-Mart and what do you know they were having pictures on Saturday and Sunday. At the time I thought it was a bit odd they weren't going to be in their portrait studio, but somehow shrugged that off...more on that later.

So we arrive at Wal-Mart at the appointed time, and find out the Easter Bunny will be appearing in the middle of the front of the store, oh, and he's running late. So we wait. We'd been telling Piper she was going to have her picture made with the Easter bunny and she was very excited. When he finally showed up, her excitement continued, but the closer we got to him the stronger her grip got on Ger's hand. She finally stopped completely and said, "I no sit in Easer bunny lap". And no matter how much coaxing and talking to her we did, we couldn't get her to change her mind. Oh, and somewhere inbetween, a woman from the Optical shop and a "regular shopper" also both took their turns at trying to convince her. No go with either of them as well. Therefore, the picture this year is her hanging on to me for dear life on one side of the Easter Bunny, while Ger and Boone join the ranks on the other side.

A couple of side notes:

Check out the nice shot of the rafters of the building at the top of the picture...nice!

Oh, and by the way, this picture has been brought to you by 7Up, Snapple, Pepperidge Farm, Goldfish, Airwick and Lysol. Nothing like a little gratiutous advertising on the bottom of your Wal-Mart Easter Bunny picture.

Like I said, classic!

Just hanging out.

Early Saturday morning fun.

Here's a short video from this morning of Pip & Boone enjoying some snuggling on the floor time together. It's not action-packed, just plain sweet.

High Society...

The Artist!

More Weekend Updates

I had a few posts I'd hoped to get up during the week, and alas we've passed through another weekend and here it is Monday again. Well, I guess there's always this week.

Piper had a fun weekend. On Saturday, she went to McRea's 1st birthday party and had such fun. She especially enjoyed playing with Sallie and Whitney's homemade strawberry cupcakes. I asked her what was the most fun part of the party and she told me, "I play laugh and scream with Sallie".

Sunday, she went to a birthday party for one of her friends from school, Meg, at Bounce Around. She'd never been to this place before, but she walked right in the door, kicked off her shoes, and took off running! It took her a little bit to build up the courage to go down the big inflatable slide, but once she found her courage and did it once, she found it hard to stop!

This morning when she woke up, she told us she wanted to go to a party and eat cake. I think she was hoping for three days in a row...can't blame her. All this talk about birthday party's has led her to start asking quite frequently, "My happy birthday coming up?"