Easter morning at the Stecher house found some very sleepy girls. That would have been fine on most any other day, but we had a busy day ahead! We rushed bleary-eyed girls through finding goodies in the Easter baskets, including Mary's first Easter basket. Luckily, the Easter Bunny brought plenty of candy for the girls, and the sleepiness was taken care of pretty quickly.
It wasn't too long before we were all dressed up and ready to go to mass in Lafayette with the Raley clan, with a beautiful buffet brunch afterwards at the Lafayette Park Hotel.
I promise Matt normally stands for family photos, but he had just pulled both of his hamstrings the day before at SI's annual alumni baseball game. It was a feat for him to be present in this picture, and it was another few weeks before he had fully recovered!
Lucky us, though. We had three very eager helpers and holders for the girls: Mop, Pop and Uncle
Kyle.
The girls scarfed down all of their favorite breakfast foods with their cousins, enjoyed an Easter egg hunt, and then --- treat of all treats --- went swimming in the rooftop hotel pool after shedding their Easter dresses in Mop and Pop's hotel room. It was such a nice way to relax after a hectic morning, and a good time-filler before we headed to the second half of our Easter festivities. Even Matt's hamstrings benefited from some cool water, and we had the pool to ourselves (swimming on Easter, anyone? anyone?) as the girls reacquainted themselves with some dormant swim skills. After extricating the girls from the water waaay earlier than they would have liked, we headed back to the hotel room to change back into Easter dresses and fix girlie hair, and then left for the peninsula to celebrate Easter evening with the Stecher family.
Easter egg hunts never get old, no matter how many you do in one day ;)
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