Easter 2012

Yikes!  It's been 4 weeks since I've last posted something on my blog and I really have no excuse!  We've just been hanging out, enjoying the great weather here in Atlanta and staying busy with the kids.  Our lives seem to always be BUSY, although that is definitely the new norm for us these days! 

But in the last few weeks since I've been on a blogging hiatus, we have celebrated Easter!

 Easter is actually the only big holiday we don't travel for each year.  With both of our families in Florida, we travel for EVERYTHING so it's just really nice to be able to stay put for a holiday, to stay off the roads or out of the airports and just enjoy being with the kids!  We spend each Easter with our neighbors (mostly all neighbors, who like us, are 'family-less' here in Atlanta).  And every year, it is an all day affair, with lots of kids running around, tons of delicious food and bottomless cocktails!  Unfortunately, I had to keep my mimosa intake to a minimum this year, but I can't imagine celebrating Easter any other way.  And the weather was amazing this year so it made it even that much better!

The day before Easter we took the kids to an Easter egg hunt at Chastain Park and then that afternoon we dyed eggs.  Kahn was really into dying eggs this year so it was actually a fun activity to do with him.  Olivia wasn't too into it...which is fine with me--I'll admit, I'm not a huge fan of dying eggs either. And then that night after the kids went to bed, me and big Kahn (aka the Easter bunny) made up their Easter baskets and hid them in the house and hid the eggs in the backyard. 

It was fun watching the kids look for their baskets in the morning and then watching them on their egg hunt in their jammies in the backyard.  By far their favorite part of the whole day was eating the candy in their baskets.  It's not often they get to eat Reese's Peanut Butter cups at 8am, but how could I deny them when they were displayed so beautifully in their baskets.  I definitely had a few too (and in the week following Easter, me and big Kahn managed to finish off all of their candy).  

Here's a few pictures of the kids enjoying the Easter festivities!  As they get older, the holidays get more and more special and we enjoy watching the excitement the holidays bring as well as teaching them the real reasons for the holidays (and why we're letting them eat candy at 8am)!

I hope everyone had a wonderful Easter with their family or friends!