Easter

Remember how much I said that Owen loved Santa? Well, I think that love might pale in comparison to how he feels about the Easter Bunny.  We went to the mall this week and the Easter Bunny happened to be there. Owen couldn't wait to get on his (her? Is the Easter Bunny a girl or a boy?) anyway, Owen couldn't wait to jump up on the Easter Bunny's lap. It was the cutest thing I've ever seen (do I say that about everything when it comes to Owen? I know... but I really think it); he could not stop smiling and laughing. Unfortunately, I didn't get a picture because they ask you to not use a camera or a cell phone and to purchase pictures that they take. More unfortunate... their pictures cost $25 for the cheapest one. How ridiculous right? First of all, that's the most outrageous price for one picture, second... it's the Easter Bunny, how do they think they can charge that much to see the Easter Bunny? It's not like he's in high demand or something, there wasn't even a line.  Needless to say, no pics of Owen and how much he loved the visit.
We did however, get a few pictures (not of him actually smiling for the camera, you'll notice that these days those are few and far between) but pictures none the less of Owen doing some other Easter festivities. Like... dyeing eggs:

And then realizing that he can stick his fingers right through the egg shell and crush the egg (his favorite part of dyeing eggs):

Saturday was the annual ward Easter egg hunt. I loved how our ward did it. They had one section for nursery age kids and another section for all of the other primary age kids so that kids Owen's age would actually have a chance of gettting some eggs for themselves.

Sunday we woke up to find the Easter Bunny had visited our house and left treats and a present for Owen. I'll be honest, I was probably more excited about him finding the basket than he was but once he found it, he was pretty pumped.

Easter afternoon we had some friends invite us over for some super yummy dinner (Thanks Katie!), some egg hunting and some frosting of sugar cookies:

Super excited about finding eggs and other goodies around the James' house.

Getting ready for the cookie making to begin



Owen's favorite thing about the cookies: Coloring them with a cookie
marker (what a great invention) and sticking his fingers through the cookies
to make the biggest mess possible.



Mmmmm... yummy (just the frosting though. He wasn't having anything
to do with the actual cookie.

Such a great Easter!

P.S. Don't mind the raggamuffin-ness of our child. I do try to comb his hair once in a while, it just doesn't ever stay and since I feel like he is the cutest thing ever regardless of uncombed hair, I belive every one else probably thinks he is too. Then I start blogging, look at the pictures and realize that the whole lot of us are kind of a mess... oh well.