{"id":826,"date":"2010-04-05T08:57:45","date_gmt":"2010-04-05T13:57:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/kickert.info\/beth\/2010\/04\/05\/easter-2010\/"},"modified":"2010-04-05T08:57:45","modified_gmt":"2010-04-05T13:57:45","slug":"easter-2010","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/kickert.info\/beth\/2010\/04\/05\/easter-2010\/","title":{"rendered":"Easter 2010"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The day began with a beautiful sunny morning and the birds chirping.&#160; We woke up, got ready for church, ran a little late (as usual these days), loaded up the car and were on our way for a fun filled day.&#160; After church we returned home to prepare for our Easter dinner with some close friends (and finish cleaning).&#160; I cooked a spiral ham (well really just heated it up) and while we waited for our friends to get here we snapped some pictures in our front yard:<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"><em><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"border-bottom: 0px; border-left: 0px; display: block; float: none; margin-left: auto; border-top: 0px; margin-right: auto; border-right: 0px\" title=\"2010-04-04 Easter 040\" border=\"0\" alt=\"2010-04-04 Easter 040\" src=\"http:\/\/kickert.info\/beth\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/04\/20100404Easter040_thumb.jpg\" width=\"244\" height=\"324\" \/><\/em><\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"><em>All smiles on the beautiful day.&#160; Check out my diva sandals and fantastic dress made by <a href=\"http:\/\/kickert.info\/beth\/2010\/04\/02\/sewing-envy\/\">Dacia<\/a>!<\/em><\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"><em><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"border-bottom: 0px; border-left: 0px; display: block; float: none; margin-left: auto; border-top: 0px; margin-right: auto; border-right: 0px\" title=\"2010-04-04 Easter 053\" border=\"0\" alt=\"2010-04-04 Easter 053\" src=\"http:\/\/kickert.info\/beth\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/04\/20100404Easter053_thumb.jpg\" width=\"386\" height=\"290\" \/>Just hanging around with daddy!<\/em>&#160;<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"><a href=\"http:\/\/kickert.info\/beth\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/04\/20100404Easter0452.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"border-bottom: 0px; border-left: 0px; display: inline; border-top: 0px; border-right: 0px\" title=\"2010-04-04 Easter 045-2\" border=\"0\" alt=\"2010-04-04 Easter 045-2\" src=\"http:\/\/kickert.info\/beth\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/04\/20100404Easter0452_thumb.jpg\" width=\"306\" height=\"358\" \/><\/a>&#160;<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"><em>Family photo<\/em><\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"><a href=\"http:\/\/kickert.info\/beth\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/04\/20100404Easter052.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"border-bottom: 0px; border-left: 0px; display: inline; border-top: 0px; border-right: 0px\" title=\"2010-04-04 Easter 052\" border=\"0\" alt=\"2010-04-04 Easter 052\" src=\"http:\/\/kickert.info\/beth\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/04\/20100404Easter052_thumb.jpg\" width=\"373\" height=\"281\" \/><\/a> <\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"><em>My baby girl and me<\/em><\/p>\n<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p>After a quick photo shoot we gave Mikayla her Easter basket. I think she was more impressed with the noises the objects made than she was the actual objects.&#160; Her basket was filled with Puffs, a book, bubbles, rabbit ears (for pictures later this week) and large plastic eggs stuffed with smaller plastic eggs.&#160; <em>Side note \u2013 she had actually been playing with the eggs all week.&#160; We are not ashamed to regift!<\/em><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/kickert.info\/beth\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/04\/20100404Easter034.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"border-bottom: 0px; border-left: 0px; display: block; float: none; margin-left: auto; border-top: 0px; margin-right: auto; border-right: 0px\" title=\"2010-04-04 Easter 034\" border=\"0\" alt=\"2010-04-04 Easter 034\" src=\"http:\/\/kickert.info\/beth\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/04\/20100404Easter034_thumb.jpg\" width=\"368\" height=\"277\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p align=\"center\">&#160;<em>Are you surprised she ended up with a giraffe Easter basket??<\/em><\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"><a href=\"http:\/\/kickert.info\/beth\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/04\/20100404Easter059.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"border-bottom: 0px; border-left: 0px; display: block; float: none; margin-left: auto; border-top: 0px; margin-right: auto; border-right: 0px\" title=\"2010-04-04 Easter 059\" border=\"0\" alt=\"2010-04-04 Easter 059\" src=\"http:\/\/kickert.info\/beth\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/04\/20100404Easter059_thumb.jpg\" width=\"356\" height=\"268\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p align=\"center\">&#160;<a href=\"http:\/\/kickert.info\/beth\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/04\/20100404Easter055.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"border-bottom: 0px; border-left: 0px; display: inline; border-top: 0px; border-right: 0px\" title=\"2010-04-04 Easter 055\" border=\"0\" alt=\"2010-04-04 Easter 055\" src=\"http:\/\/kickert.info\/beth\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/04\/20100404Easter055_thumb.jpg\" width=\"357\" height=\"269\" \/><\/a> <\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"><a href=\"http:\/\/kickert.info\/beth\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/04\/20100404Easter058.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"border-bottom: 0px; border-left: 0px; display: inline; border-top: 0px; border-right: 0px\" title=\"2010-04-04 Easter 058\" border=\"0\" alt=\"2010-04-04 Easter 058\" src=\"http:\/\/kickert.info\/beth\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/04\/20100404Easter058_thumb.jpg\" width=\"272\" height=\"362\" \/><\/a> <\/p>\n<p align=\"left\">Next on our list of things to do was Easter dinner with some close friends.&#160; After we ate we let the kiddos dye eggs (even MLK &quot;dyed&quot; one) and had an Easter egg hunt in our backyard.<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\">&#160;<a href=\"http:\/\/kickert.info\/beth\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/04\/20100404Easter067.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"border-bottom: 0px; border-left: 0px; display: inline; border-top: 0px; border-right: 0px\" title=\"2010-04-04 Easter 067\" border=\"0\" alt=\"2010-04-04 Easter 067\" src=\"http:\/\/kickert.info\/beth\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/04\/20100404Easter067_thumb.jpg\" width=\"368\" height=\"277\" \/><\/a> <\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"><a href=\"http:\/\/kickert.info\/beth\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/04\/20100404Easter078.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"border-bottom: 0px; border-left: 0px; display: inline; border-top: 0px; border-right: 0px\" title=\"2010-04-04 Easter 078\" border=\"0\" alt=\"2010-04-04 Easter 078\" src=\"http:\/\/kickert.info\/beth\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/04\/20100404Easter078_thumb.jpg\" width=\"291\" height=\"387\" \/><\/a> <\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"><em>She wasn&#8217;t sure what to think about the eggs, actually she was a little upset I wouldn&#8217;t let her eat it!<\/em><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/kickert.info\/beth\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/04\/20100404Easter080.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"border-bottom: 0px; border-left: 0px; display: block; float: none; margin-left: auto; border-top: 0px; margin-right: auto; border-right: 0px\" title=\"2010-04-04 Easter 080\" border=\"0\" alt=\"2010-04-04 Easter 080\" src=\"http:\/\/kickert.info\/beth\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/04\/20100404Easter080_thumb.jpg\" width=\"287\" height=\"381\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"><em>Ready, Set, Hunt!<\/em><\/p>\n<p>&#160;<a href=\"http:\/\/kickert.info\/beth\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/04\/20100404Easter081.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"border-bottom: 0px; border-left: 0px; display: block; float: none; margin-left: auto; border-top: 0px; margin-right: auto; border-right: 0px\" title=\"2010-04-04 Easter 081\" border=\"0\" alt=\"2010-04-04 Easter 081\" src=\"http:\/\/kickert.info\/beth\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/04\/20100404Easter081_thumb.jpg\" width=\"290\" height=\"386\" \/><\/a> <\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/kickert.info\/beth\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/04\/20100404Easter0862.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"border-bottom: 0px; border-left: 0px; display: block; float: none; margin-left: auto; border-top: 0px; margin-right: auto; border-right: 0px\" title=\"2010-04-04 Easter 086-2\" border=\"0\" alt=\"2010-04-04 Easter 086-2\" src=\"http:\/\/kickert.info\/beth\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/04\/20100404Easter0862_thumb.jpg\" width=\"390\" height=\"374\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"><em>Our Egg Hunt Boot Camp really paid off, she knew exactly what to do and found a whopping four eggs!<\/em><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/kickert.info\/beth\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/04\/20100404Easter087.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"border-bottom: 0px; border-left: 0px; display: block; float: none; margin-left: auto; border-top: 0px; margin-right: auto; border-right: 0px\" title=\"2010-04-04 Easter 087\" border=\"0\" alt=\"2010-04-04 Easter 087\" src=\"http:\/\/kickert.info\/beth\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/04\/20100404Easter087_thumb.jpg\" width=\"418\" height=\"314\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/kickert.info\/beth\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/04\/20100404Easter088.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"border-bottom: 0px; border-left: 0px; display: block; float: none; margin-left: auto; border-top: 0px; margin-right: auto; border-right: 0px\" title=\"2010-04-04 Easter 088\" border=\"0\" alt=\"2010-04-04 Easter 088\" src=\"http:\/\/kickert.info\/beth\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/04\/20100404Easter088_thumb.jpg\" width=\"432\" height=\"325\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"><em>The kiddos showing off their &quot;loot&quot;!<\/em>&#160; <\/p>\n<p align=\"left\">After the hunt the men went and played disc golf while the women and kids went and hung out outside and chatted.&#160; 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