Easter Sunday

Heidi and Justin blessed their darling little girl, Sydney Grace Bunker on Easter Sunday. I'm so glad I was able to attend the blessing. She's such a sweet girl! I just couldn't help staring at her all through church. She has a full head of gorgeous dark hair that she loves to run her fingers through. Its the cutest thing! Here's a picture of us after the blessing - unfortunately, warm Easter weather is far from what we had!! It was freezing - and very windy, as you can see in the picture.

Courtney & Kirk invited me over for a wonderful Easter dinner, so I headed over there after church. We had a great meal thanks to Courtney and some new recipes that she found to try (YUM).

Trey is such a happy little boy, always full of smiles and laughs. He was my little buddy for the night. It was lots of fun playing with him - especially since he spent half the night trying to figure out who in the world this stranger was making funny faces at him!

He's still much too young to try to walk, but I thought I'd see how he liked that ... he was too busy staring up and laughing at me to try to think about anything else though!

He sure does love his bouncy chair though - he went crazy as soon as I put him in it.

I stopped by Heidi & Justin's on my way home to visit with them for a little while longer. I just can't get enough of these babies! She has gotten so much bigger since last time I saw her too. She is so happy too - she has the cutest little smile and laugh! Isn't Sydney's hair adorable?!? I just love it - all of it!

I was very excited to celebrate Easter this year since I missed it last year. Ok that's not entirely true ... last year I was in Europe during Easter. What an incredible experience though. Sharyn, Liz, and I spent 3 days in Rome and then a week in Malta. It was incredible to be there during Holy Week and to witness all the celebrations that were held. Saturday night before Easter Mass, they hold (about) 3 hour processionals in all the major cities. We went to the right - men dressed in robes carry huge statues (it takes between one in Mosta, right outside the Mosta Dome - the picture to the 6-8 men to hoist these statues on their shoulders) depicting the last week of Christ's life through the streets of the city as music is played and narrative is read. It was a neat experience to see how the entire city united in their faith in Christ and celebrated his life, Atonement, death, and Resurrection. But, we were very happy to spend Easter morning with the local LDS branch in our traditional way. They had members from every continent except Antarctica! We spent Easter evening back in Rome - where we opened our Kinder Easter eggs in our hotel room.

The Easter Bunny actually paid a visit our house this year - and even left jelly beans on my piano keys like he did when I was growning up! How did he know?!? :)