Hippity Hoppity Easter's on it's way....

Today Gracie and I spent a fun filled morning with good friends.
At the annual USS Kentucky Gold Easter Egg Hunt.

Gracie was thrilled to see her friends. One of which she saw all of three days ago...but you would have thought it had been years.

The festivities got underway around 10:30. The sun was shining and it actually looked like Spring. I know, I was shocked too.

I watched the ducks in the pond and chatted with good friends while the kids played in the playground.

Finally they did the actual "hunting."

Gracie only got 15 eggs but that's not because she was slow. No my daughter would find an egg, open it up and if the prize inside wasn't to her liking, she put it back together and threw it back on the ground for the next kid to pick up.

When I asked her "why" she was doing that her simple reply was "I don't want to get any crap like the football stickers in that last one"
Finally after a few eggs that were "Gracie approved" were in her basket, she started just picking them up without the inspection.

After the egg hunt, Gracie and I headed to the mall. She desperately needed new jeans. We went to Penney's (Why do I feel like my Grandmother whenever I say that?) and bought a few really cute bedazzled pairs and some capris.

We lunched in the food court. Nothing it to good for my daughter. Then she got her picture taken with the Easter Bunny. I hate to admit it, but it was $20 well spent. Super cute picture.

After that we headed home where she enjoyed what was left of the sunshine, outside with the neighbor kids. The temp was only 50 at it's peak today, but the blue sky was pretending to be closer to 70.

After an hour or so outside, a frantic neighbor boy tears into my house "Mrs. Abplanalp, Gracie fell in the pond!!!" Naturally I have visions of the worst in my head. Once I got over to her, it was her pride that was wounded, nothing else.

She was wet, head to toe. Dripping wet. I covered her up in my sweatshirt and got her home and into a warm bath.

She is perfectly fine now, but her clothes are soaking in the washer as we speak because you should see the layer of mud she brought out the the pond with her. Ugh!

All in all it's been a perfectly pleasant day. Even Gracie thinks so...once she warmed up.