Easter with Grandma, Grandpa and Aunti Bri

Good LORD I'm behind!  Let's see....oh yeah, these photos were taken on the Sunday after the weekend after Easter.  Izzy and I had spent the Saturday before at Emily's house, and we stopped by and paid Grandma, Grandpa and Aunti Bri a visit.  It was a little chilly, and super windy, but neither of those things seem to bother Izzy OR Bri.  They had fun playing ball in the driveway...look at Grandpa's face!  He loves watching Izzy play!

These are Izzy's 3-D glasses that came with her 3-D chalk.  She, of course, thinks they're sunglasses.  Who am I to tell her any different?

And then a little swing time

We really need to visit more, and I'm sure we will when it warms up and we can go swimming. They all have such a great time. Izzy even started dancing for Grandma and Grandpa and "shaking her booty" :) as she calls it.

Easter 2011

Easter morning was a bit "wet" here, so we had to do the hunt inside. No difference to Izzyboo as you can see..

I miss the joy of seeing what the Easter bunny brought.  Would I get candy?  Games?  Clothes?  Endless possibilities it seemed.

Ahhh..my little OCD toddler.  She had to make sure that every empty egg was matched and closed before she could move on to the next egg.  Almost brings a tear to my eye from pride :)

And every quarter went directly into the piggy.  Good girl Loppan!

And what kind of Easter bunny would visit without dropping off a cute pair of Crocs with the obligatory Dora jibbitz?

The daycare had a party the next day and Izzy brought home more goodies, which she proceeded to dig into as soon as she got in the car on the way home.

The kid loves Starburst...JUST LIKE HER PAPPA.  Please, God, don't let her be like him in leaving those pesky wrappers all over the place!

Stripey and the pink bear needed some fresh air.

Easter 2010

Izzy woke up EARLY on Easter morning (and by early, I mean 7:00am).  It was my turn to get up with her, and I gotta say that it wasn't easy to drag myself outta bed :)  After we had breakfast (and once Joacim woke up) we could begin the "festivities" :)

I don't think she really understood why she was getting all of the gifts, but that doesn't stop any kid from enjoying them, now does it? 

Later on in the afternoon, we went up to Fishers for a family Easter dinner.  Izzy's cousins LOVE playing with her, and I think they were pretty excited to get to see her. 

My nephew, JT....lookin' cool

and helping Izzy look cool too

Izzy and Auntie hunting eggs

she looks completely focused on the task at hand...didn't take her long to figure out this whole egg-hunting thing :)

JT is always so helpful with Izzy..LOVE this about him...

Signs of spring...as Joacim said..."it's like the trees blossomed overnight."

My niece, Taylor, finding a very well-hidden egg.  It's funny...when I look at how tall and lanky she's getting, I think back to when she was a baby and I nicknamed her "beefcake" because she was short and had the BEST chub!  Chubby babies are awesome.

Izzy kept seeing this dandelion and thinking it was an egg, so I picked it for her

Here she is with her papaw, Jessie

Izzy LOVES JT.....it's written all over her face here..

My sister, Andrea, is feeding Izzy sour-patch kids, and she LIKED them!  I can't figure this kid out :)

Here she is with mamaw Deb

I think Izzy had a great time with family today.  It was fun to watch her have so much fun.  Makes me think we need to hang out with family a bit more.  Glad summer's coming up!

Once we got home, it was still nice and warm out, so we broke out the sidewalk chalk and got to work.

This is her first experience with sidewalk chalk, and she was more concerned about getting to color with each piece of chalk....see...

It was truly a great day!