How Could I Forget Easter?!?!

Holy cow! How could I forget about Easter in my last post? This was a great Easter...my dad was able to come up and spend a few days with us, we had the Chicken' Pickin' at church with a dessert auction for the Young Women, 3 Easter Egg Hunts, and one very happy little girl, all packed into one crazy weekend! I got some pretty great shots of Afton in her Easter finest, so here they are...

We did have a couple casualties over the Easter weekend. Sunday, after we left for church; it appears that our very smart (and at the same time, very dumb) dog found his way onto the dining room table and ate Afton's chocolate Easter Bunny. Her 1 pound, solid milk chocolate Easster Bunny. He also took my dad's chocolate bunny and drug it out to the backyard where it baked in the sun for an hour or so and it's face melted into the back of it's head. Very lovingly, Joe offered his chocolate bunny to Afton to replace hers. She accepted and when we took her basket outside to take pictures that one also melted. Luckily we were able to distract her long enough that she eventually forgot about it. We had 3 Easter Egg Hunts this year, one at church, one at meme & papa's house and one at Heather & Jason's. We found these fantastic eggs that had fairies and ladybugs and flowers on them, and they were prefilled with all the great Wonka candy - 16 in a pack for $5. The only thing we decided to do was take the Wonka candy out and substitute our own candy. Just because we thought that Afton would prefer Hershey Kisses and Sweetarts to Sour Jaw Breakers. But I don't think that her older cousins minded the switch, seeing as how they ended up with all the good stuff!

Now for the Chicken Pickin' and dessert auction. This is an annual event for our ward (at least it has been for the past two years). The auction always raises a ton of money for the Young Women and the Youth and it is always a ton of fun. This year we had members of families (namely my sister and dad) bidding against each other for the exact same item, which I didn't really understand since we're all going to the same place anyway - and the cake was going with us regardless of who bought it. I think it was a matter of pride...and it made for some really good laughs. I made Strawberry Heaven (it's becoming my signature dessert) and Nutella Cheesecake and they went for $45 and $35, respectively. The item that brought in the most money in was Sister Brew's Strawberry Pie, it went to Christa Field for $150. She REALLY wanted that pie!! It was such a fun evening, and, no matter how much I paid for that loaf of bread; the money is going to the youth and there is no better feeling than the one we get when we are serving and helping each other.