Another wonderful Easter. We went to early church and then headed to my mom and dad’s house for light lunch and big dinner. We had many friends that joined us for the celebrating. Here are some highlights…
Here is a picture of the four girls. Lucy and Annie Reagan and Maddux and Sophie Poteat. Lucy is 7 1/2 months and Sophie is about 5 1/2 months.
A picture of the girls with their “loot”. This year was a major improvement from last years attempt at an Easter egg hunt. Last year the adults basically did the hunt for them and as soon as they found out that there was food in the eggs they just sat down to eat for the rest of the hunt. This year they got pretty competitive trying to find eggs.
A picture of the Poteats for all their family and friends who count on us for an update 
(they have a blog that they update about once a year )
The adults. We are so so blessed to have such dear friends. Samm and I basically do all of life together and it has been the most amazingly fun thing to go through dating, engagement, early marriage, pregnancy and now parenthood with her. They live right across the street from us and we literally see each other every single day. I don’t know what I would do without them living here with us. Especially in the winter, it is so nice for Annie (and mom) to have friends that can come over and play so conveniently. Having a constant play mate has also brought up many disciplining issues as well. It is such great practice for Annie and Maddux to have a close friend to learn how to share with We love them dearly!
My wonderful former teammate and now co-worker Erin trying to entertain both little babes.
And now for the Easter story of 2011…
It has been a nice Easter so far and the girls were up stairs napping like little angels…or so we thought.
Samm was sitting by the stairs and heard Annie calling for somebody so she walked up the stairs only to run back down yelling for me. Scared that Annie had hurt herself I bolted up the stairs to find Annie COVERED in something dark black. It was ALL over her hands, completely covered up to her elbows, in her hair and on her dress. I yelled for my mom to come up and then proceeded to walk into my brothers bedroom where Annie was supposed to be sleeping to find this…
Annie had found Tom’s black shoe polish and had proceeded to “finger paint” all over the walls, the closet door, bedroom door, and worst of all the brand new carpet. I mean, it was painted so thick that I didn’t even know where to start trying to clean it up. Mom whisked Annie away and threw her into the bath while Samm, Paul and I attempted to clean the room. The most promising was the wall, it came pretty clean. But the white doors and most of all the new carpet I am afraid have seen their last day.
That is why Annie did not have her dress on in most of the pictures. That is why she looks a little rough.
To our MN family: Sorry about the carpet, I am praying that the cleaner will get most of it out tomorrow.
To our SC family: Be glad that we live in MN! (and you may want to hide the shoe polish come July!)
