House Bunny: Easter Part 2

Emmy has been VERY excited about the Easter Bunny, so she loved her Easter Basket he brought her!
Well let me rephrase that. She was VERY excited about the jelly beans, and that's about it. I don't want to think about how much candy she ate in the past two days.

After our late night return for the Beach we vowed to get up and get to the 8:30 service at church and we TOTALLY did it! Awesome that the service started at 8. grrr. We sat through the sermon and one hymn and it was over. I personally need to sing "Christ the Lord has Risen Today" at chruch to make it "ofically" Easter, so we decided to wait for the next service at 9:30. Megan, Keith, and the kids came to that service as well, so we had time to grab a few pics before it started.

After church we headed over to Megan's for more eating and the big Egg Hunt. The Easter Bunny himself comes to hide the eggs at the vacek Egg Hunt. Susan made a big deal about how the Easter Bunny was almost there and the kids went upstairs to wait. When Susan told them that the Easter Bunny had come Emmy ran down the stairs and then just looked really confused. Abby made a tear at the eggs, but Emmy just stood there. Finally we realized she could care less about the eggs, she wanted the Bunny. "where da bunny go?"She finally got into it and the kids busted a few confetti eggs

and found all the eggs, AND all the candy inside.

It was a long fun Easter and we're glad we got to spend so much of it with fam!

Beach Bunny: Easter Part 1

We had one long Easter party! This year we started at Gigi's Beach. Mom's entire family came down for the day to celebrate about half of the family's birthday and have an easter party. We hung out at the beach and ate.. we're good at that.
Emmy's new thing is jumping off things. We have to count to three and she jumps. And then we repeat 57 times.

She also has her first "zuchinni" as we call it. toooooo hollywood.
We had a ton of leftover shrimp and french fries left over from lunch so we decided to take them to the birds. Usually there's one or two. The entire flock showed up! They were almost swooping low enough to take fries out of Emmy's hand. She was having so much fun her mouth was WIDE open the entire time. Life lesson #1: When feeding seagulls, keep your MOUTH SHUT! Thank goodness we didn't have to go for the mouthwash.

We squeezed a lot of Easter fun into a teensy amount of time. There were Easter baskets.. lots of them. LOT of candy (chocolate mouth in most pictures.)
An Easter Egg hunt.
And we even managed to squeeze in some Easter Egg Dying. Emmy was about to fall asleep in the eggs, but she managed to dye them, decorate them, and even randomly smash one with her head before she dozed off .

It was great to see the fam and relax a little. We headed back home for church, the big visit from the Bunny, and Vacek family Easter.

Emmy Love him!

One of the great things about our new neighboorhood is that they throw big community-wide parties. We missed the Easter Egg hunt but Emmy didn't really care because she was SOOOOO excited to see the Easter Bunny. She said "EEEEAASTTTER BUNNY!!!! Emmy love him! Emmy love him mommy!" She was basically peeing in her pants when we were walking up and then she wouldn't go NEAR him when she finally saw him. This was a super cool Easter bunny that just sat there until the kids were ok with him. She finally got up the nerve and then everything was cool. We basically spent the rest of the party stalking the Easter bunny. We are never going to the mall again!!!!!

This was a pretty cool party for a free neighboorhood party! Emmy got to drive a fire truck! She also got her face painted and played at the park.

We totally failed in our object to meet our neighboors but we crossed having to wait in line at the mall for the expensive crappy picture with the Easter Bunny, so we're calling it a SUCCESS!!

First trip to the Dentist

We took one more big girl step today, Emmy's first trip to the dentist! Can I just say that I wish MY dentist was this cool! The office is painted like a big jungle!

She hopped right up in the chair by herself and got her teeth polished.

Then she got a tatoo, a gigantic sticker, and a goodie bag with a new toothbrush. We waited in the jungle waiting room while she rode the big giantic stuffed animals and watched movies. When the dentist was ready she started off the consultation by, of course, making Emmy a balloon flower. Clown college/dental school combo degree. Emmy showed the dentist how to say "Ahhhhh!)

After the consultation was over she got to pick out another toy! I think she wants to go back tomorrow!

bluebonnets! eh...

Every year Betsy and I take a short day-trip up to Brenham to take the official bluebonnet picture for the year. We typically go to the same field and it's just FULL of bluebonnets. We had even heard this year that people were skipping the bluebonnets this year because there were so many rattlesnakes hiding in the. Yeah, it would be a REALLY tiny snake to hide in these bluebonnets. LAME! To get over our overall high level of pissiness in having wasted half a day coming to Brenham, we contemplated just taking pictures in the big pile of dead weeds that was evidently what was left of this years bluebonnets. We decided to go drown our wasted road-tip in food and ice cream instead! The BlueBell creamery is now open on Saturdays and they have scoops for $1~ Yum! Emmy ate hers and then mooched off everyone else. At the creamery, we got the inside scoop on a patch of bluebonnets that you could at least fake a picture in. We got excited that maybe the day was saved! eh...Here's Emmy and Caroline saying "Where are the bluebonnets?"

Even these were kind of (ok totally) lame and REALLY itchy. Paired with a gigantic wind and tired and post ice-cream rush little girls, it was a short bluebonnet session. We managed to snag a few.

The best ones they got were of them togehter. While the adults were a little, uh, grouchy, the girls had a GREAT time! At least we have pictures, right?

It's a.....!!!

It's finally the big day! We have been very excited to see what vacekito #2 will be! It seems like we got to this point in the pregnancy a LOT faster than with Emmy. We decided to have a "gender reveal party" for this one. It's the new thing to do! You invite everyone over to cut into the cake and the color of the icing is either pink or blue to tell the big news! I didn't want to decorate just pink or blue so I decided to go with a "game of Life " theme. My favorite part of that game was always sticking the different color pegs in the car, so this was a chance to have a real life application.

Mom made up a cute game where everyone had to guess boy or girl and then we read a bunch of old wives tales to see what they said boy or girl (they were incorrect, by the way)

Blake and I had planned on being surprised with everyone else, but it was just a little too hard =) We kept tight lips and didn't even bust out a "he" or "she" before everyone else knew! After a quick dinner (everyone just wanted to cut the cake) we went ahead and dug in!

That's right! Our big news is that we're having a little brother!!! Emmy has been saying it's a little brother all week, so I guess she just knew! We're so excited that our family is growing! I have NO clue what to do with a boy, but Blake is very happy to have someone to share sports with. We are also beginning negotiations on the marroon nursery (NO WAY!)

Blake's Mom saved his blanket from when he was a little boy. I can't wait to wrap my new little man up and bring him home in it! What a special thing to have! We are so happy to have gotten to share this time with our friends and family. This little boy is certainly loved already.