Easter Egg Hunting

Today we took Aliyah on her first Easter egg hunt. We weren't sure what to expect of Aliyah since she seems to get pretty shy around new groups of people, but once the egg hunt began she quickly caught on to what she was supposed to do.

She loved it, but it was quite apparent on her face that egg hunting is serious business.

Since Sebastian has been putting in some major time into the house, we decided to meet him up in Scottsdale for one of their egg hunts. This one happened to be put on by the Boys and Girls Club and was a perfect little event for Aliyah.

In addition to the egg hunt, they also had a couple of small snack stands, a few booths with some extra games and the cause of Aliyah's meltdown of the morning--a inflatable, jump-house.

Here she is just chillin'. Eventually we had to climb in and get her out, and oh, how the tears flowed.

She and I got our photo together, thanks to Daddy.

Such a great little event, and it was nice to get to explore our new area some more. We're up there most Saturdays and Sundays so that Aliyah can visit Daddy as he's working on the house, and we're finding that we really like the area so far. My favorite part has to be that it is so green in Scottsdale. The grass and the trees and the parks are plentiful. And the little mini-man made lakes too. I love it. I'm getting antsy to move in at the end of the month and really get settled.

Tomorrow, we'll head on over to church. Aliyah is really into Jesus at the moment. We pulled into the parking lot for Good Friday mass and she yelled, "Jesus! Yay!". And another cute moment that I have to make note of, more for my sake so I don't forget, is that during the Veneration of the Cross, she actually walked up to the cross, knelt and put her hand on it like everyone else did. We'll see how tomorrow goes. Might be hit or miss with service being so long. I'll have to be sure to bring lots of books, snacks and stickers. My secret weapons. :)