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Thursday, April 21, 2011

Palm Sunday Brunch with the Nguyens

Sunday was one of the best family days we have had in forever and all of the credit goes the Nguyens. At 9:30am Mrs. Dao came over to our crazy house. We were supposed to be ready for her because she offered to do a mini family photo shoot for us!... but pretty sure I had rollers in my hair (just discovered them btw) and stell was naked with crusty hair. In the end we pulled ourselves together and she so patiently took some family shots of the 4 of us in our new backyard. Dao is an amazingly accomplished photographer and I can wait to see what kinds of things she captured! Feel like Stell always had drool or snots so hopefully there's at least one good one with her it it!

and then at 11am we headed over to Providence Country Club (yes we live here at PCC just don't belong to the club but the Nguyens just joined! so YIPPY!) to meet up with the rest of Dao's clan, Jacob and Thang for a festive brunch extravaganza! Here's how it went down...

There was an Easter bunny of course and Aston was best buds immediately...

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and so was Jacob...

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Stell kept her distance unless he offered his candy basket to her as a peace offering...then of course she obliged...more than once...

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When the Easter Bunny was not around...stell was looking for him (and his basket)...she would shrug her shoulders and ask total strangers "Easter Bunny is?" "Dat way?"

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the kids caught wind that the eggs had already been placed out back for the hunt...so they got as close as possible to plan their attack...

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Meimi stole one or two pink eggs before the official egg-hunt start but it would have caused a bigger scene to take it away from her so Jeff let her be

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there was this cool balloon lady...i loved the way stell just sat like a big girl and awaited her balloon...

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Totally bad photo but want you to know that stell jumped the gun and was out of the gates first (that particular photo not shown because I didn't have time to get my camera out)...i mean look at her here! she was full stride the whole time...

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only pink and purple at first...

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her brother's strategy: open the eggs dump the goods in the basket and toss the eggs...great idea but stell's yield was still higher in the end

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"com'on daddy there's one i missed!"

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once she made sure there weren't anymore eggs to be had...she cracked one open...

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and another...

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then inside to see the magician! notice how she's like the last off the lawn?!...strutting...

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watching the magician...

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course mei had to leave the show to get an intermission snack...

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We owe you guys big time...currently mulling around ideas to make it up to you! we loved every minute of 4.17.11...thank you Nguyens! See more, even better photos here on Dao's blog.

6 comments:

Anonymous said...

Happy Easter!
What a fun time at the PCC Palm Sunday Easter brunch and Egg Hunt!
Aston, Stellyn and Jacob sure look
cute...love the phott of Aston walking up the stairs...cool dude!
Love Stellyn racing to find the eggs...also what cute sunglasses in the last photo of Stellyn...what kind of treats were in the eggs?

We are having an egg hunt here for Easter as well...Noah and Luke still love it...even though they are 11 and 13 years old...of course they enjoy the cash that is stashed in the eggs along with the jelly beans!

Thanks you for sharing these fun pictures...love, Gram

kate's corner said...

oh what a fun story!! so many to love. in LOVE with the last/her glasses/the pink. love stell's dress by the way. love the few of her and daddy. she was so on a mission/into it! guess she was over the egghunt thing by the time she got to the willettes or maybe just weren't visible enough for her :( also like the closeup featuring her eyelashes. funny how aston opened them up! fun colors and love the dat way!

glad you tried out the rollers!

Unknown said...

LOVE the one especially of her far off walking thru the middle of the field,carrying her goods. HAHAH
you have SO many good stock photo pics... theres got to be a ton of need for photos of children. GO FOR IT!

Anonymous said...

Dude- CRAZY cute outfit on Stella and fab photos...love the ones at the end when she had "finished off" the course! Fun Fun Fun

Tracy said...

Um...that was my comment above. Clicked on something too soon!

Tricia Williams said...

stellyn cracks me up. your kids are too cute and fun. love the shots of her up close, putting candies in her mouth, with fingers at her lips. great shots. and you must have mad focusing skills because you always get the action shots. love the perspectives of aston holding his basket full of eggs. looks like such a wonderful time and a beautiful day. hilarious that both aston and stellyn had egg hunting strategies and that stellyn, the 1-year-old, came out with more.