better late than never - Easter pics!

I had promised long ago to post Easter pictures. I am finally organized enough to do it!

Most of these are from our church's Easter Egg Hunt on the Saturday before Easter. At the end I'll post her photos on actual Easter in her Easter dress :)

We were very blessed that the church decided to divide the Easter Egg Hunt into three age groups this year instead of just two, so Meredith's age group (I think it was 0-2!) had an area of the grass that was covered with eggs in the wide open so everyone would find some :) Here she is, hard at work!





I should explain why she has an Easter bag instead of a basket. She actually does own an Easter basket. I got it at an after-Easter sale in spring 2006 (yes, 2006) because we thought we'd be traveling that summer for the adoption. Little did we know we'd have to wait for two more years! I was so excited to finally be using that Easter basket this year. So why doesn't she have it? Well, between getting the diaper bag packed up and figuring out how we could help out at the event itself, it was forgotten! Just goes to show that the child is more important than the stuff :) Fortunately, we had her personalized toy bag with us (thanks to the Rushes for that!) so we emptied it out and used it for eggs. Worked great!

Here's Meredith with her little friend Lily. They have been hanging out together a few times a week for quite a while now -- her family is in our small group Bible study, and Meredith and Lily play together there as well as at church and music class. They are just getting to the point of playing together rather than alongside each other - it is SO cute!


You may recall that Meredith was the big winner at the Fall Festival Diaper Derby last October. Well, her winning streak came to a screeching halt at the Easter Egg Hunt's "Egg on the Spoon" race. But she was so cute...totally understood what she was supposed to do and gave it a good effort!

The starting line...


Look at that speed! Well, OK, it was just the wind blowing....but so far, so good!


Looking good....er....wait. Where's the egg?


A careful Meredith looks for the egg.

Back in business! Although notice that the other kids are already done with the race and moving on....
(The careful observer will notice that the egg appeared to move - that's because I "spliced" together footage from two rounds of races -- the first one involved a failure of some kids to follow directions related to holding the egg with their free hand! Both rounds went about the same way for little Meredith though).

It was certainly a fun day and we look forward to next year!

Meredith wore a beautiful dress for Easter (thanks to the Omlis!) and even willingly kept her hat on for quite a while. What a cutie!



In Sunday School that week, Meredith learned that Jesus is alive. Amen to that! He is alive and has certainly been blessing us!