Happy Easter

I want to start by saying Happy Easter to Grandpa Jack & Grandpa Harry, who are now celebrating this holiday with Jesus himself, which has to be pretty incredible. Our girls had a fantastic Easter filling our hearts with joy in the sadness that has surrounded us in the past weeks. Lyla is healthy, doing better than she has since January, so that in itself was a HUGE blessing for this weekend. Kate had two Easter egg hunts, one that Mimi & Grand Dad did at their house, and a 2nd at the neighbors where she was only hunting for pink eggs. Thank goodness pink was her color considering she would not be able to pass up a pink anything. There was an Easter Parade with hats, a decorated golf cart, some seriously excited children; it was quite a celebration.





Below is the Reith family who hosted the Easter egg hunt by color, and had amazing Easter hats for the parade.


The Burligame Easter hats...







Lyla is wearing my first Easter dress that my mom made when I was a baby. Still precious. :)

Couldn't resist posting these dance moves. :)

Kate watching her Daddy & Grand Dad play "Just Dance" on Wii.


Daddy & Kate enjoying the swing on the lake.


The family down at Bridgewater ready to see the Easter Bunny.


Mamaw, Grand Dad & Lyla being entertained by Kate's excitement of opening the eggs.


She celebrates every egg she finds!

Ready, set, go...Easter Egg Hunt #1 begins!


The Easter week began with Dylan & Kate decorating eggs, and they were quite serious about this project!

Tears bring joy...

It is times like these that make us realize the joy that the new and young life of children bring when experiencing the loss of life that has been around for many years. The past 5 weeks have been quite emotional for our family. Grandpa Harry, Mickey's fathers Dad passed away on March 11th, the day Lyla turned 5 months old. We had a wonderful weekend celebrating his life down at the beach, and here are a few pictures from the weekend. In addition to the loss of Grandpa Harry, Mickey's other Grandpa, Grandpa Jack became very sick at the same time. I can't tell you how amazing these men are. Grandpa Harry had a sense of humor that rivals comedians, and Grandpa Jack has the largest heart of any man I have ever known. i lost my own Grandpa's many years ago, these men filled the void and then some, and here are a some pictures from a visit to the hospice center to see Grandpa Jack last week as well. I have to add in, that Kate believes if you sing to someone, it makes them feel better. So she literally sat bedside of Grandpa Jack and sang "Twinkle" (as she calls it) and "Bringing home my baby bumble bee", as well as gave him a sticker on his blanket, and these actions did make him crack a smile. Priceless. :)

One last thing to add in, Lyla has blue eyes still, and we kept thinking she has Mick's dads or my Dad's eyes because they both have that blue/green eye color, but only Grandpa Harry had the real blue eyes with the beautiful eyelashes. Thanks for leaving us with an awesome trait to pass down!

Scrumptious

None of us, including Kate, can get enough of this baby girl. She is wonderful!!!