Sometimes I feel my Meet-and-Greet Monday posts fly under the radar. Maybe no one really cares to see pictures of the most beautiful children ever. And then my brother-in-law yells at me. And I feel loved.

Coloring the egg with crayon

Step Two in Dying Easter Eggs (after hard-boiling them, of course):
Color liberally with crayon.

(No, you didn’t skip over Step One. I did. There were no pictures of Step One.)

Crayon-colored egg

Ready for Step Three. Which I am not going to show you in detail. Because it’s just simply not that exciting. But I will show you the finished product:

Easter Eggs

See the far one there? I did that one. It’s a picture of an empty tomb with the stone rolled away. I’m so talented.

Olivia Easter Dress

Fresh from her nap, tousle-haired, and absolutely beaming at the prospect of collecting candy-filled eggs. Benjamin is just thrilled at the bucket.

Easter Hugs

COME ON, baby bwutha, GET EXCITED ABOUT THE CANDY.

Eating the goods

Last year, she was just excited about the eggs. They were new. They were colorful. They were hidden. We had to explain afterwards that there was food inside. This year, the first one she found she cracked open. “ANIMAL CRACKERS!”

(And yes, there were eggs with candy. That one was technically Benjamin’s.)

Benjamin found one!

There ya go, B! Now put it in the bucket…

Egg in Bucket

*Sniff* He’s growing up too fast.

An Easter blur

Don’t even get me started on how ridiculously, absurdly, incomprehensibly fast she’s grown.

And, so I don’t end on a sappy note:

Easter Ham

Finally. Easter dinner done right.

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To participate in Meet-and-Greet Monday: Post pictures of someone you’d like to us to “meet” on your blog. It doesn’t have to be someone new each week (obviously – I post of the same two people each week). The idea is that someone new from the blogosphere will happen upon this site each Monday and we can “introduce” ourselves to them. Because this is a friendly place. Also, this is a great excuse to post pictures for the Grandmas.

Just make sure you are linking to your Meet-and-Greet post – NOT your homepage. :-) It just makes life easier that way. Then put a link in your post back to here so that your readers can “meet” someone new today, too! And as always, thanks for keeping it family friendly.