silly rabbit.

boy oh boy did we have fun on easter. it was such a beautiful day. it was marianne's first real easter. last year she was only weeks old and the easter bunny must not have had her address yet to deliver her easter basket and eggs (read: new momma was too sleep deprived to shop for easter loot). but this year was a different story. and we lived it up. great, great, great day.

all that loot and went straight for the easter eggs.

easter service was a packed-house but somehow we managed to get there at the same time as the yeagers so we all sat together...on a pew in the balcony hallway! note to self: never show up to easter sunday church on time...get there half an hour early. at least we had seats though because some people stood for the entire service.

after church, we feasted on brunch at snooze - momma's favorite. who knew the wait would only be 20 mins on easter. on any given sunday it can easily be an hour plus.

home. let the festivities begin. which started with daddy picking up dog logs from the front yard so that we could safely scatter eggs for marianne. while we waited, we played with some eggs to get charged up.

on familiar territory...the sidewalk.

grass was still a new terrain for marianne - she's still not so sure - so we gave her a little bit to warm up to the idea of trudging around out in the green.

egg-hunt ON. we dumped out the eggs and as soon as daddy handed her the bucket...she went right after it picking up eggs and dropping them in her bucket. we didn't even show her what she was supposed to do. it was a proud moment. oh yeah. (a few stills and then video)

she's not greedy. although, i'm not sure who she was leaving the rest for. momma/daddy/george/the birds???

we soaked up the sun as she played in the grass.

the easter bunny filled marianne's eggs with her favorites: cheerios and puffs.

now let's dig into this easter basket full of treasure!

i was going to share a video of her as she pulled everything out but it's FIVE minutes and i couldn't get it to load. so instead, here's a clip of marianne getting her only bite of easter chocolate. white shirt + chocolate = 4-letter-w...