The Blissful Life of the Bandermanns: Busy, busy Bandermanns!

Whoa. It's been a busy couple of days around here! The thunderstorms have been trying to keep us from enjoying ourselves....but we don't care about baseball-size hail, floods, or tornadoes! Ha! Ok seriously...at times it's been a little scary. But we continue to get some good family time in during it all.

Turkey season is in full swing, so of course, Jason was out for the first day and got one! Ansley was so excited (as you can see from the picture) that Daddee brought home a big gobbler! Since Jason's hunt, she's said for days...."Ansley see turkeeeey!"

I had to get lots of pictures of my 2 turkeys!

The Easter egg hunts have been pretty popular with Ansley this week. We've got more plastic eggs lying around than I know what to do with! Ansley's preschool lab friends put on a hunt and then let her eat the chocolate while I was out running errands. Needless to say, Ansley was even more spunky than usual when I returned. She sure had a fun time finding the eggs with Mrs. Cathy!

This is Ansley's new "smile for the camera" face. I usually have a hard time keeping a straight face after the lip curl and eye squint!

One of my favorite little boutiques in town, Bloom was having a visit from the Easter bunny Saturday. Because we took Ansley last year, we had to make another trip this year to see what she thought of him. The pictures don't quite show it, but she was NOT a fan. However, after leaving...he's ALL she wanted to talk about! Of course, that's how it went with Santa too.

My two favorite people snuggling after having an overload of cookies and milk. I think Ansley still has a mouth full in this picture.

Friday night our church put on the first-ever Good Friday service, which was a huge hit! It was such an amazing night of reflection of the sacrifice that our Risen Savior made for each one of us! Wow. What a night! My sweet friend, Heather and I were asked to sing "Blessed Redeemer" by Casting Crowns at the end of the service. Even though we were crazy nervous...it went well! It was such an honor to be asked and I hope that God was glorified through it. Ansley is still singing Besssed Reeeemer to the top of her lungs! =)

Our Easter picture this year! After a wonderful church service this morning, we headed out to the cabin to see my family. We had another Easter egg hunt (the rain kept this one inside) and lots of food! Yes!