Happy Easter!!

HAPPY EASTER!!


We woke up to a beautiful, warm Easter morning!!

Our Easter preparations began yesterday. Here is Cati working on the much-anticipated cinnamon rolls that we enjoyed for breakfast this morning. We only make these about twice a year, so they're a real treat!


Here are the Easter goodies that the kids woke up to this morning. The basket has some chocolate, side walk chalk, and bubbles from us. The bags around them are from Aunt Ginny. The flower vase with M&Ms is the kids' sacrifice "jar" that the kids filled with beans, adding one for each sacrifice that they made during Lent. The beans were replaced with M&Ms last night.

Here are the kids this morning!

(Yes, Cati had a haircut.)

Chiara is behind there somewhere :)

"Smile, Chiara!"

Chiara breaks into her jelly beans from her Easter bag.

Matteo said that his favorite Easter goodies were the bubbles...

...and stickers (from his Easter bag).

Elena woke up a bit later and was happy to find a bag for her, too! (Look - her hair is finally long enough to be messy when she wakes up in the morning!! Oh, and on a side note, she cut her first tooth this week!)

She was happy to have someone finally help her to open her bag.

I replaced the top picture on the blog with one from after Mass this morning. Here are a couple of others that we took...

The whole family!

This afternoon, we're going to a friend's house for an egg hunt and Easter dinner!!

We hope you all have a wonderful, blessed Easter!!!!