Breakfast with the Easter Bunny (and an egg hunt)

Last weekend we had our first Easter celebration, breakfast with the Easter Bunny! Gabriella had seen the bunny at the mall and REALLY wanted to get her picture taken with him. I delayed her knowing we were all set to go to breakfast (we didn't inform her ahead of time in fear of the 4am wakeup ready to go).

So we went, had breakfast, saw the Easter Bunny, had Gabriella's face painted, and did some bowling. It was a busy morning! Here are some pictures of our fun morning!
After our breakfast we headed home for a little break. Then it was back to base for an Easter egg hunt! We had never been but were told to get there early. So there we were, 30 minutes early, and it was COLD outside. So we headed back to the car and found any layers that happened to be hiding in there. We headed out of the car and back into the chaos of people waiting.

Right before the gates were opened we were informed that there were 10,000 eggs on the field so everyone would get plenty. As soon as the gate opened we rushed into the section for Gabriella's age and she went to it! She had a great time! After her basket was full (and the eggs were gone) we headed back to the car. I happened to look at the clock and realize that it had been less than 10 minutes and EVERY egg was gone! How crazy is that? We were glad to be making even more memories with our sweet girl.

We hope everyone else is enjoying their celebrations this spring season!

So this is what we've been up..

Meet our new baby boy! I'm 20 weeks pregnant so we've hit the halfway point. We had an ultrasound on Wednesday and confirmed it was a baby boy. Gabriella's been telling us this since we told her there was a baby coming, but it was nice to have a confirmation. He looks good although we need to get another ultrasound done due to him being a lazy little guy (the tech couldn't get any pictures of his face).
I had some issues in the beginning of the pregnancy, then we moved (just a couple of streets over), and now we've just been busy with every day things. This is the reason for the lack of updates. Ricky is finally on shore duty. We've got about 3 years of him being home and we're loving every minute of it!


Spring is on it's way, or so we hope. I can not WAIT to be able to spend time outside with Gabriella. She's right in that terrible two phase, and to think we only have 2 months until she'll go straight into the terrible? three phase. We'll see how that works out.

Tomorrow we're going to breakfast with the Easter Bunny on base so hopefully we'll have a few pictures to share! For now here's a picture from Wednesday. Gabby was torn between being in the picture and going out to the garage to ride her tricycle.