Easter 2011

We had a wonderful weekend celebrating Easter this year. On we headed out to one of our church's annual easter egg hunts.

Emma and Ian pose before the hunt

Emma wanted to pose with the bunny

Ian is ready with his basket

Finding eggs with Daddy's help

Emma was happy with her stash

Doesn't everyone like to run down grassy hills?
On Sunday morning we went to Church in our Easter finest

This is now Ian's cheese face

Getting some love

Our family
After church, we went over to our friend's house for lunch...

Can you tell they were excited to see each other?

Daddy and Ian hang out with Abigail

"Wait a minute, Daddy don't pay too much attention to the baby!"

Emma and Ian also got to perfect their egg hunting skills once again

Eggs in the train table

Ian checks out his eggs

So does Emma

Ian gets a treat

The kids minus one baby

Silly faces
For dinner we headed to another friend's house for some fun with a few of our small group families
We had a wonderful day celebrating the special day with friends!

Ian's birthday bar-b-que

Instead of a birthday party, we invited a few friends over for a small bar-b-que. There was on food, fun and friendship to celebrate the day.

The kids enjoyed appetizers

Sliding

More sliding!

Even more

Sliding!

Dinner time!

Always ready to say cheese

After dinner, it was time for the pinata

Pulling the ribbons

Ian checks out a prize

Ian's new trains were popular

Cake time!

Yum, Yum!
It was a wonderful way to celebrate our special boy!

Ian's choo choo cake

I had a lot of fun creating Ian's cake this year. To go along with our train theme, I make him a choo choo cake and it turned into one of my most favorite cakes I've made!

The engine

The front view

Side view

The birthday boy was excited about his cake, too!

All Aboard! Ian turns 2 and rides the choo choo

It is hard to believe, but Ian turned 2 on Saturday! He getting to be such a big boy and one of his favorite things is trains; so for his birthday we headed into the Los Gatos mountains to ride the rails.


Our train headed up the mountain

Ian was really excited on the entire ride

Family picture on the ride

Nana and B-pa got to go on the train with us!

At the top of the mountain

Our engine's name was Dixiana and she is a logging train

At the front of the train

Bear Mountain

Emma liked climbing on the big logs

See how big it is!

Showing off her ticket

Back at the station

Waiting for the train to leave

The water tower

Playing in the dirt!

Railroad crossing

We found a banana slug!

Letting off a little steam!
We had a wonderful time riding the train. It was the perfect activity for a train loving 2 year old!