Jackson's 2nd Easter

Yesterday we celebrated Jackson's second Easter -- it's crazy that he's on round 2 of his holidays now. Last year he was 11 days old on Easter and this year he turned 13 months.

We celebrated by having an Easter Egg Hunt with some baby friends on Saturday morning. Jackson did really good at finding the eggs, not so good at putting them in the basket however. But hey, I was still impressed with his hunting skills!




All that hunting made our little guy really tired and he came home and took a 3 hour nap! We were planning on dying easter eggs as a family when he woke up, but since he slept so long, Tyler had already left for some church meetings and wouldn't be home until late. So Jackson and I (aka I) died them alone this year. Jackson was there of course, but he wasn't too into it. He was still trying to wake up from his marathon sleep.

He was really not to impressed with the whole process, but I was trying to take a little self portrait with the eggs, jackson and me - but it wasn't working. the best one i got was this shot of us ROFLing (minus the ROF) together. That's basically what we do all day -- just giggle together and i love it.



Anyways, the next morning was Easter Sunday! Jackson wanted an early start and woke up at 6:30 ... about 45 minutes earlier than normal ... but was excited for the big day! He ran right over to his basket and had fun finding his hidden eggs and immediately opening them to find the candy inside!







We had Stake Conference and Jackson did surprisingly well, he sat on our laps for almost 2 hours straight, but we had to go play in the hall for the last 15 minutes. We came home and snapped some cute pics of the little guy in his Sunday best!






He loved eating jelly beans and peeps! Our healthy little baby probably ate more sugar that day than any other entire week of his short life so far.

We finished the day with a traditional easter dinner of ham, cheesy potatoes, green beans, carrots and rolls. we invited some friends over and had a lovely evening that of course didn't get documented by photos...

Jackson was a lot of fun though and even started to learn how to fold his arms during a prayer that day. We hope that next year we can start to teach Jackson the true reason for Easter. Jesus lives and loves us!