The Easter fun began on Thursday when Gannie and Papaw (Justin's mom and stepdad) came in to town and spent the night with us. We went out to dinner at Red Robin and Ashley insisted on wearing her new purple princess dress and sparkly shoes that Gannie and Papaw just gave her. Who am I to tell the princess no??
When we got home from dinner we colored Easter eggs with Gannie and Papaw too. Ashley did really well dipping the eggs in and scooping them out. Her fingers were blue for only a day or two :)
After going to Dunkin Donuts for breakfast and Ashley scarfing down 5 munchkins (I'm sure she was in a sugar coma for most of the day) and hanging out with Gannie and Papaw the rest of the day we headed over to Nana and Papaw's (Shannon's mom and dad) house to celebrate Aunt Kelly's birthday with dinner and ice cream cake!
Saturday we got up and headed over to Justin's cousin Lisa's house in Indiana for the annual Easter Egg Hunt. Ashley had a ton of fun playing with her cousins and all of the kids there and hunting for the eggs. Her Papaw (Justin's dad - we have too many Papaw's I know!) came to help her.
After the Easter Egg Hunt we drove over to GiGi's (Justin's grandma) house, also in Indiana to drop Ashley off with Gannie and Papaw so she could spend the night with them and go to church in the morning. Justin and I then headed to the Red's game where we went on the field before and after the game to hold a huge TriHealth banner (Justin won a contest at work and that was part of it).
We got up Sunday morning and ushered at church - it was absolutely packed in there! We then headed over to Indiana again to pick up Ashley and have Easter lunch with Justin's family. When we walked in the door this is what we find:
Yet another princess gown and matching pink sparkly shoes thanks to Gannie and Papaw!!! They are just fueling the princess fire! To say Ashley was a total monster when we got there would be a understatement... Having barely any sleep and being pumped full of sugar for two days we were in for a long day with her. While we were there Ashley and one of her second cousin's Ella had their own Easter Egg Hunt. My personal favorite is her standing there with her hand on her hip looking for more eggs - what a sassy pants!
Somehow we managed to pry her out of her princess attire and get her back in to her Easter dress so we could at least see her wearing it! Her other cousin Emma showed up with her pink Barbie Jeep and she took Ashley for a ride and even let Ashley drive it herself - look out world!
Thankfully Ashley crashed about one mile down the road from Gigi's house and slept the whole hour and 15 minutes back to Loveland! She woke up in a much better mood for Easter dinner at my Aunt Marla and Uncle Steve's house with my side of the family. They had yet another Easter Egg Hunt there! After everything was all said and done I think Ashley got a total of 6 Easter baskets and about 8 lbs of candy...not really sure why anyone feels it necessary for an almost 3 year old to get that much but she is spoiled! When we got home we were all exhausted! Ashley went to bed around 9:30 and slept until 10:30 Monday morning.
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