イースターサンデイ：）/Easter Sunday Fun:-)

イースターの日曜日は少し小雨に始まったんだけど教会に行っている間に晴れになっていた、さすがカリフォルニア...
Easter Sunday started off a little cold and sprinkly but it only lasted the length of morning worship and by the time we came out of the church building it was sunny...

イースターのごちそうを食べた後みんな揃ってマディソンが昨日誕生日会で貰ったプレゼントを開けるのを見る事が出来ました。そしてその後ジムとデイブが浜辺にイースターのエッグハント用にお菓子の入った卵を隠しに行ってくれました：）
After we had our Easter feast we let Madison open her gifts from yesterday's birthday party and Dave and Jim went out on to the beach to hide eggs for our Easter Egg Hunt:-)

リリーは早速卵探し開始だけど...
Lily got busy right away but...
マディソンは卵を見つけても指差しているばかりで自分で拾おうとしない...
For some reason Madison did not want to actually pick up eggs so all she did was point...









優しいリリーが卵をマディソンに分けてあげてる...
Sweet Lily giving Madison some of her eggs...

私達の裏庭...やっぱり普通じゃない...：）
Our back yard... not like most people's...:-)
ボーナスビデオ：マディソン、卵を産んでる!
Bonus video: Madison laying an egg!

グレースは見ているだけで満足したみたい!
Grace was just happy to be observing the whole thing!
卵探しが終わった後海辺に行って３人従兄弟揃って写真を撮ろうとしたんだけど、誰もじっとしていられない...
After we were done finding eggs we walked toward the water and we attempted to take group pictures with their matching outfits, but not a single one of them wanted to cooperate...
なのでアリソンが子供達にお菓子をあげてみようといったので試してみたらすっかり良い子に座っていてくれました!
So Alyson came up with a Win Win idea of "Give them candies Give us pictures!"

写真撮影の困難の後プールへ移動、そしてまたまた写真...
After the painful group picture session we moved on to the pool area and of course our fun pool time couldn't start without...

GROUP PICTURE!

みんな楽しそうに泳いでいたんだけだんだんと寒くなって来たので家の中に入って暖まる時間!　この写真は親用に...
Kiddies were having a lot of fun in the pool but the temp was getting cold and parents were starting to freeze so it was time to go get warm! This picture is for the parents...

ボーナス写真：ジムおじさんが絵本の読み聞かせしてくれた!
Bonus Pic: Story time with Jim after bath time!

Easter Egg Hunt Party/イースターエッグハントパーティー

A mom from Church and I planned an Easter Egg Hunt Party today which was very successful...:-) We had a great turn out with a total of 7 families(12 kids!) at one of the elder's house. Good thing was that it was such a perfect day for an egg hunt, bad thing was that it was really hot to be outside too long and I forgot to bring sun screen with us! You can probably tell in some of the pictures that Madison's cheeks were really red, I was really worried that she was gonna pass out from heat exhaustion... luckily she didn't...:-) Please enjoy our fun day in pictures!
教会で知り合ったママとアンナで今日のイースターエッグハントパーティーを計画しました..そして、結果は７家族(子供１２人)参加の大成功でした。今日はとっても良い天気の日だったんだけど、外に長い時間居るにはちょっと暑すぎたかな〜マディソンのほっぺがとっても赤くなって来て熱射病になるんじゃないかと心配したぐらい...でも大丈夫だったよ...：）それでは写真でお楽しみに!

Before most families arrived Madison was relaxing and saving her energy in one of the rocking chairs...
ほとんどの家族か来る前にのんびりしているマディソン...

Every time we come to their house she always plays with this shopping cart and gets quite obsessed with it... I wish we had space in our apartment to get this for her!
この家に来る度にこのカートで遊ぶのが大好きなマディソン...アパートがもう少し大きかったら買ってあげられるんだけどこのおもちゃはちょっと大きすぎかな!?

While the bunnies got busy hiding eggs for the kiddies, the Daddies walked them around the block... Which was kind of a long walk in such a hot day, but I felt like I was watching some sort of Daddy Day Care...:-)
うさぎ君達が卵を隠している間パパ達は子供達を連れて近所を一周、なんかダディデイケア見てるみたい...：）

Madison spotted me and started running towards me... Such a cutie!
ママを見つけたマディソンが走って来た...カワイイな〜！

Very helpful bunny1, Joshua:-)
一生懸命卵を隠しているうさぎ君１のジョシュア：）

Another very helpful bunny2, Elijah:-)
そしてもう片方のうさぎ君、イライジャ：）

Madison took a little while to warm-up to idea of egg hunting...
卵を探して拾うっていうコンセプトがまだのマディソンだったけど...

But she started to get it...unfortunately she just wanted to eat the insides...lesson learned...
next time tape the eggs!!
だんだん分かって来たみたい...でも拾った卵をその場で空けて中にあるお菓子を食べる方に興味が会ったみたい...来年はちゃんとシールを貼らないと!!

Lastly, Madison noticed a giant egg underneath this tree...
最後に、庭にある木のしたにある大きな卵を発見...

She called a friend to help her out...for some reason she didn't want to grab the lemon herself...
でも友達に拾ってもらう事にしたらしい...何で自分で拾わなかったんだろう...

But she was happy to have it... And this is what she does when she wants to make sure something is hers...;-)
実は木から落ちたレモンだったんだけど大切そうに持ってるマディソン...最近誰にも渡したくない物はこうやって抱きかかえる様に持ち始めたんだよね...：）

A lemon from the lemon tree!!
レモンの木からレモン!!

Madison cooled down with her favorite snack...chunks of ice!
氷を齧りながらやっと休憩です...！

Some of the group!
今日来た子供達の半分！