Easter 2012

The  Easter celebrations began Thursday with the Leika's Easter Parade. 


The children in the kindergarten class create their Easter bonnets with the help of parents. Sam chose monster trucks as his theme. Worked out much better than anticipated - thank you Family Dollar for your timely shipment of monster trucks!!  

The children in the younger classes make their bonnets in class with their teachers.  Fairchild loved hers because it's pink (her favorite color, of course!). 

The children don their headgear and parade around the block of the school with the parent paparazzi as their primary audience before heading back to school for their class parties.

Friday the children were out of school in observance of Good Friday.  Paul was "Mr. Mom" most of the day while I was at work.  Determined not to miss out on playing golf (Paul really? - determined not not miss golf, no - never!!), he took Sam and Fairchild with him to the golf course in the afternoon.  Exciting news to report is that he made a hole in one on number four. Paul was pleased to have made the hole in one and more than pleased his children were there to witness it. Fairchild summed up the golf experience, "I fell off the cart and my Daddy made a one in the hole!"  To celebrate, we took a family photo on the 4th hole. The idea is to look like a one - can you see it? Thank you "Aunt" Amanda for your photography assistance!

Saturday morning and afternoon we attended eagerly anticipated annual Easter Egg hunts.

Each year we take several family photos at this hunt.  This year it was windy with lots of light and shadows wreaking havoc with the attempt to obtain decent photo. I thank Kea, my friend and photographer of this pic, for her persistence.

Kea was also my photographer for the obligatory family with bunny shot.

She took several that turned out well but honestly, this was my favorite!!!

It makes me laugh -- you?

In the afternoon, neighborhood hunt at my friend Bradford's house. 

The cat managed to find its way into the photo to the distraction of a few of the children. Can you find the cat tail?

Sam's two favorite grown up items these days - money and Dr. Pepper ("Mom, it's what the big kids drink.")  He got them both at Miss Bradford's hunt. Loved it so much he snuck back over later that night to hang out at her house  - thankful she lives next door!!

Sunday morning, we enjoyed the Easter Bunny treats before attending church and going to my grandparents house for lunch.

I took many more photos during the weekend than posted here.  In the next day or so I am going to post them on the Through My Eyes photography blog. If you are interested in seeing more, check it out by clicking the photography button at the top of this blog.