The Four A's: Happy Birthday Anna and Happy Easter!

Not only is today Easter (one of my favorite celebrations of the year) but it is Anna's 5th Birthday today. The time has gone way too fast for me. It seems that the days and years are speeding up. Yesterday she had a couple of friends over to play and we had a tea party for her. The girls dressed up, I made raspberry tea, brownies, cookies, and fruit. I let them use my white china and they had so much fun.

Today started early for me. We had two services at church in which I was blessed to sing at both. Andrew and Anna were up way before I left so I got to see them have their Easter Basket surprise. During children's worship, the kids got to hunt Easter Eggs with scriptures and candy in them.

Anna chose to go to Olive Garden for her Birthday meal. While we were there, Azalee Tatum, an elderly member from our church that knows all about my (Johnson) side of the family, had heard from our preacher's wife that we were taking Anna to Olive Garden for her Birthday. She and Ben were having their Easter lunch there and she found Anna and gave her a dollar. After she left, Anna said, "Good! I can buy that couch at Wal-mart." We laughed and said, you need at least 35 more dollars to get that couch. She found a princess miniature couch at Wal-mart and wanted it for her bedroom. We told her to wait and see what she got later at her party.

We arrived home and I had to take their Easter pictures in their clothes because I was not there when they got dressed. I had planned to have the Easter egg hunt but Anna insisted it was time for her party. So we made a few changes and had her party. She was so excited to get the money from her Gran and Granddad and from Bud and Marva and realized she had enough to buy that couch! Andrew gave her the Barbie vacation house. We gave her a pink scooter. Her Nana and Papa gave her clothes and her Aunt Shara gave her clothes and Barbie clothes for her Barbies. She was proud of everything. Except she really wants to go to Wal-mart for that couch.

Alan then hid the Easter eggs and the kids had fun trying to beat each other to the eggs. We hunted once in the back yard and once in the front yard. Now everyone is exhausted.

Tomorrow, I get to take off of work and go with Anna's class to the Fort Worth Zoo. I have not been able to go to any field trips with my kids and worked out that I could go this time. I am so excited.

Enjoy the photos! Happy Easter!