Happy Easter!

It's my favorite holiday and we did all sorts of things to celebrate. Friday we made sugar cookies. I rarely make sugar cookies, and when I do, I remember why I do it so rarely. I hate all the flour and rolling and sticking... my cookies came out looking more like squiggle lines and circles than chicks and eggs. Ellen had fun with the cookie cutter until she figured out that raw cookie dough is delicious, and I had visions of salmonila poisening and made her stop. It was a looooong 10 minutes before that first batch of cookies were done.

She had a much better time with the sprinkles. I had a lot of fun cleaning them up afterward...

Saturday we dyed Easter eggs. This was a great activity for Ellen!

Sunday morning finally came, and Ellen was a lot more interested in her Easter basket than breakfast....

She had lots of fun with all the empty eggs. I'm mean and only filled 2 eggs with a couple jelly beans.

Then we finally put on the pretty new dress. It is still really hard to get a normal picture of Ellen, but we managed to get this one of her stricking a pose.

She did NOT want to leave her new eggs for church, but we finally got out of the house.

And we made it to grandma and grandpa's for ham....where Ellen found grandma's giant pink bunny. So glad we got to leave this at grandma's.