The Clinton Clan

The girls were excited this morning to see what the Easter bunny had left in their baskets.



After church, we packed up and drove to my parents house for a yummy dinner and an Easter egg hunt. Initially we had heard that my cousins were going to be there. So I filled 77 eggs for the hunt. We found out when we got there that they did a quick road trip instead--and only my girls would participate in the egg hunt. We ended up hiding about 50 eggs. Lacy ran around like mad picking up eggs. It was very exciting for her.


Anjali, though, didn't understand the concept of using the basket to collect her eggs. So she grabbed one egg in each hand and when she saw more eggs, she'd walk over, but could not fathom putting down the other eggs in her hand to pick up another egg. By the end, she did manage to hold 3 eggs at once.


I made carrot cake for dessert, but it was undercooked in the middle :( the outside pieces were yummy though--and I've found my perfect cream cheese frosting recipe. Anjali and Lacy had lots of candy. Anjali has inherited my sweet tooth, so she yelled at everyone whenever she saw someone eat a piece of candy and not think to give her a bite of it.

One of the things Cliff wanted to do his week off was go to the Long Beach Aquarium. I think the whole idea sparked after my friend had mentioned that she had this awesome coupon for $10/person to the Aquarium--and Cliff can never turn down a bargain like that!

We all had fun. It was a special treat that Uncle Noah could join us, who was also home for spring break. Anjali's favorite was the jelly fish.

Lacy's favorites were whatever ones she could associate with a movie she's seen.
Here are a few examples:

Dori from Finding Nemo


Nemo


Mr. Crabby from SpongeBob


Puffin from the Swan Princess


Speed from the Swan Princess or Crush from Nemo


Here are a bunch of other cute pictures at the aquarium.


After the aquarium, we stopped by my granny's house to visit and have some good ol' Appetizer Pizza for dinner. One of the new toys Anjali discovered there was this toy saxophone which instead of blowing into, she walked around playing it like a kazoo. She's too cute, it made me laugh.

We took the kids to see the new Playhouse Disney show. The kids loved it--both kids participated in the show and danced along to the music. After the show, the park was a little too crowded for our tastes so we decided to go to Goofy's Kitchen for brunch. Our passes are going to expire soon, and so we thought we'd use our discount for one last hurrah.

Anjali now can say Cinderella. It sounds like Lella--and she uses it for all princesses and all pretty toys. This was kind of Anjali's first time where it was exciting to see all the characters. So it was fun to watch her have so much fun and of course, she thoroughly enjoyed the all you can eat goodies.




Here they are posing in the car outside the restaurant.

We were in charge of dessert for Lacy's school Easter party. I always like to include Lacy when we make treats for her school and this time Lacy had lots of fun decorating Easter cupcakes (and eating a few too!)


Cliff had the week off too and was able to join us for the party. It was nice to have an extra pair of hands to chase Anjali around. She wants so badly to be a big girl like Lacy. Here she is shoving her face with juicy watermelon. And another picture of her trying to sneak into a chair at the table like a big kid.

Notice how the other kids plates have carrots and pizza and fruit on them. And Lacy's plate only has cheetos on them...

I did finally convince her to eat some carrots and watermelon since those are things the Easter Bunny likes to eat and after all, it is an Easter party.

Here's a picture of Lacy and her little girlfriends. She comes home talking about Hannah and Vas all the time!