Happy Easter a little early

Since I have to work tomorrow we celebrated today instead. I really should say "celebrated" because there was really no fan fare or celebration besides giving Zane his Easter basket this morning and him being thoroughly confused by the situation. As you can see by the pictures, he looks pretty suspicious of the the whole thing and kept his little eye brows furrowed the whole time. His favorite part of the basket was probably the miniature eggs that I randomly took from some of my decorations this morning in an attempt to make his basket slightly more "eastery." He did also spend a lot of time playing with the little blue ball, known in our family as a "tickle" ball, thanks to Brendan. He made a horrible face every time he touched it or tried to eat it, not sure about this new texture yet I guess. He had his own little Easter egg hunt, crawling after them as they rolled around the house. His favorite by far was the purple, which he carried around for most of the day.

We had Easter Bunny pancakes for breakfast, courtesy of Zach's wonderful pancake making skills. Zach and I loved them, but Zane was having none of it. It was a gloomy day outside so we didn't get much done. After family nap time we were going to make "quick" trip to Target to pick up some storage containers for Zane's clothes he has grown out of and more frosting for my Easter cupcakes for work. Well, turns out Target is the place to be the day before Easter. Who knew? It was a mad house, like the week before Christmas. The Target trip became a HUGE debacle, about which I will spare you the gruesome details. I will just suffice it to say check to make sure the lids you get actually fit the storage containers you buy. Just because it is directly above the container does not mean it fits that container. Also, don't throw away your receipts from Target because the moment you do that you will need it to get yourself out of a huge debacle. The trip ended with me enraged, but on a happier note it was costumer appreciation day at the gas station so we got hot dogs and soda's for twenty five cents ( after spending $50 filling up my gas tank of course).

Once we were home from the debacle I finished decorating my oh too cute Easter cupcakes, we watch some of the cards game, Zane played, and I organized his old clothes. I called and checked in with my family who are all at the farm. I wish I could be there hunting eggs and watering baby trees with them. I haven't seen my siblings, niece, or nephew since January and am missing them dearly. I had a rough missing dad moment today while putting Zane down for a nap. His little head and hair looks just like dad's. It is still hard for me to believe that Zane will never know him. It would have made an awfully cute picture, dad and Zane with their matching hair. Sad face.

We read the last super and Easter story out of Zane's children's bible and I sang Jesus Christ Has Risen today numerous times to push our Easter celebrations over the top. I briefly thought about going to Easter Vigil, but then I found out they do confirmation, first communion, and baptisms at the service that starts at 7pm I thought better of it. This was a good call as Zane went to bed early since he missed his last nap. Now Zach and I are going to watch Harry Potter for our Easter celebration.

Hope you all have a wonderful Easter! Much love from the Show-Me-State!