The Wait is Over -- Easter Eggstravaganza Time!!!

Every year my parents throw an Easter party for all of the extended family the Saturday before Easter. The kids love it and it's always a fun time to catch up with everyone. Here, Eli is with cousin Sydney in Grandpa T's tractor train.
Eli is a pretty popular guy and made a couple of new friends at the party. Sports fans, you recognize these two? :)

Chewing on a celery stick....mmmmmm.

Only a grandma would share a water bottle with an almost 2 year old. The mom even has her reservations.

Grandpa and Barry. Grandpa tried to help Barry get some candy during the candy "hunt." Notice the "Cup o' Gold" in the bag. According to Dad, that was the good stuff. I'm more of a Twix kind of girl.

More candy hunting.

Barry got to open Easter gifts from Grandma and Grandpa Faas before the Easter Bunny came. He LOVES his new Cars back pack.

We all know Matt is a man of many talents. Chalk up tractor-train driver to the list. Pretty much Eli was having his own private Disneyland in my parent's back yard. Lucky son of a gun.

What a nice boy in his Easter church clothes.

Eli's new favorite thing is to bend and smell flowers....doesn't matter if they are on TV, on a shirt, or planted in the dirt. He smells them. So funny.

Grandpa was swinging Eli outside and he quite enjoyed it.

Eli and Matt before church.

Hunting for eggs in our backyard Easter morning. Eli loved it and totally caught on. It was fun to watch him get so excited to find an egg.

Making sure he found all 12.

The Easter Bunny loot. The plastic eggs are empty...shhhhh. Eli didn't care...he just loved opening and shutting them.

So happy to have a lawn mower just like Daddy.

Ooooing and awwwwwing.


Welp, that's all kids. Yet another ode to the famous Elijah Barry Faas through pictures. What can I say? We love that guy!

Potpourri (a Jeopardy reference, of course)

I was working on something and I looked up and saw this. I just busted up. Not one, but two passeys. Apparently, getting him off one is going to be harder than I thought.

This picture just makes me happy.

As does this one...so cute.

Sometimes our small baby likes to relive the good ol' days and take a little swing ride.

One of my all time favorite pictures of Eli. I love his smile in this one.

Helping Dad with a little spring sprucing in the backyard. Matt is just counting down the days until Eli can mow the lawn.

More helping.

What a good weed puller! Unfortunately, he was so good he pulled out a nice chunk of my tomato plant the other day.

A little outing in January to see the world's tallest fountain in Fountain Hills, AZ. Are you jealous?

UP NEXT: It's an Easter Eggstravaganza...look for the new posting coming soon....