easter in nyc

this easter was a bit more uneventful than i had hoped.
we came down with a nasty sickness that bedded us for about 4 days.
our initial plan was to go to boston and watch carlie (my brother's wife) run the boston marathon- but no luck.
so we stayed home, slept, blew our noses raw, drank orange juice in unnatural quantities, watched a sickening amount of random t.v., and wallowed in our inability to be human.
we found ourselves a few chance opportunities to be festive- despite being depressed about missing a little friend easter egg hunt, the bonnet parade on 5th avenue, and an outside egg hunt.
regardless of missing these fine events the real joy of this season is the reason for it.
here are a few pics of how this lovely holiday played out for us.

saturday april 19th

first we colored some lovely ovals

 mary was more impressed than pictured

(but this picture was just too sweet)

 here she is in her true egg coloring spirit

 she even tried her hand at clear crayon coloring a couple of eggs

when she became violent and started destroying all eggs she touched she lost crayon privileges 

 ***teeny baby paws***

 mama bunny and baby bunny

angry papa bunny

one of my long held easter family traditions is an event called rolling eggs

after you have colored those lovely skewed globes 

you taken them to an impressively large hill 

and you let them roll down

we had to introduce mary to such a fine event- so we did at central park

now during my childhood we went to a sand castle 

we built awesome tracks with jumps and tunnels

to build these sweet tracks our father pulled us down hills on our bums

after our eggs were beat to yoke we would have an egg fight for the ages

easter is one of my favorite holidays

thank you mom and dad and siblings too 

 mare had a taste for the holiday roll

 her hill was not so massive

her eggs only rolled about a foot

 she remedied the no roll issue 

 we tagged team throwing the eggs

 she tried to eat a few

(oh teeny lambs leg- - aka snot nose neglect... but this pic was too much)

then mary went rogue

and the egg roll came to its finale 

sunday april 20th

 we attended a lovely church meeting

 following church we had a tiny easter egg hunt in our apt.

 we had a cousin (emma) join us all the way from las vegas nevada! 

it was our easter dream come true

then we finished the night with a slumber party

(this made a mama's heart go***)

it was the finest of easter's despite being sick. 

i will always love this holiday. 

grateful for easter.
grateful for a brother, Christ, that knows everything and is in every good thing.
grateful he never lets us down.
grateful we have these lovely holidays to take some time to more deeply ponder life because of him.
happy belated easter everyone.