Easter

Easter pictures!

Other Easter activities

This is my generic Easter post that has all of my other Easter activities in it.



As always, we colored eggs the day before.



This guy is the worst morning person.  However, his sister jumps out of bed ready to give the world a hug!



We did some Easter Egg hunting at home prior to heading to Church!





Trying to pose all of the kids is always impossible.



But sometimes, most of them look one way.

Easter!

As always, we colored some eggs, but this year it went super fast because we only did 1 dozen as opposed to 3 or 4 like we usually do.

We are in the "process" of switching churches right now.  What that means is that it is harder for me to show up at the church that I am not yet a member of.  Top that with having been out of the country the two weeks prior, our Easter ended up being a pretty low key event full of Easter bunnies and no real meaning.

The Easter Bunny got his carrots

 And he hid some plastic eggs this year.  It was 70 degrees at night and the Easter bunny knew that there was no way he could wake up before the kids.  So he left a note asking mom and dad to hide the eggs.  The Easter bunny put jelly beans in the eggs he hid.  BUT, some of the eggs had little holes in them so the ants found there way into them.  BabyP was NOT pleased with a ton of ants in his Easter basket.  I found it hilarious.

I need to hid more eggs so my mom can find them. It was only really Peanut and my mom that found eggs.  For some reason, BabyP just follows them around and whines that he can't find eggs.  I do not understand that boy.  As independent as he says he is, he sure relies on others a lot.

I made prime rib this year for Easter.  It was pretty good!

The kids made place cards for the table. That might be a new tradition in our house.  It sure gets the kids out from under my feet for a few minutes.

A little photo shoot

Because it is Easter, I decided to do a little photo shoot with the kids.  The kids wore clothes from Meghan's wedding in December, and somehow i managed to not get a picture of them together.  I did not want to repeat that same mistake.  

I think this swing may be my favorite thing to take pictures in front of.  It makes a perfect picture backdrop.

 So serious.  She asked if I was going to shoot an advertisement.  She is so photogenic.  She could easily be in a advertisement.

Another awesome family picture.  I like it.  I like the side eye BabyP is giving everyone.   BTW, he wore that tie the and pants the rest of the day.  I was able to get him to change his shirt. He wore the tie clipped onto his T-shirt.

I am SO HAPPY with the way these turned out with my mom.

He was trying to be grumping, but dang that grandma, she was making everything better.

BabyP took this of me.  I only get to have half of the top of my head.

Peanut took this one.  I REALLY LIKE IT!

Big Surprise, he is still grumpy.

But not for long!

And our pretty old church.  The courtyard was full of eggs.  Generally we have 2 egg hunts, but we decided this go around to have everyone together.  I am glad we did as we would have NEVER made it to church.  We were almost late as it was!

I thought this photo pretty much summed up our family.  Complete with Raspberry.  The only thing missing is BabyP throwing a temper tantrum.

 I am going through this phase where I don't use my flash at all.  I think I am about to come out of it.  I have to learn how to use it better.  I also need to learn to use my camera better.  I say all of this because a lot of my pictures are dark or blurry because the light wasn't very even.

 My girlfriend gave us these heals. She loves them so much.  In fact, BabyP had a temper tantrum this morning because he wanted to wear high heels.  It was a hard one to handle because I don't want to push boys roles and girl's roles on him.  I tried to make it sound like fun that he could look like his father.  He wasn't buying it. The argument that eventually one him over was that we didn't have any heels in his size.  He might be a hot head, but at least his is practical.

Every year, we do a picture with all of the kids in the church.  There were more in church today, but these are the regulars.

Here we are, again!

Egg Home - home style

My kids colored eggs twice but somehow, i managed to not take a picture of it at all.  That is fine though.  There are millions of pictures to be had of kids coloring eggs.  Here the kids are laying out the eggs for the Easter bunny to hide.  They also gave the Easter bunny some carrots.  We hoped if we gave him the carrots in the Peter Rabbit bowls, we could get something Peter Rabbit related.  The bunny did not disappoint.  

Here is my mom hunting eggs with Peanut.  I am not going to name names, but someone fell as he was leaving the house which put him in a very cross mood.  He decided he was NOT going to be hunting eggs that morning at all.

Nor was he going to stand while he had his picture taken.  Someone else would though.  Someone else that is a lot easier to deal with.  Someone who is NOT 2.

Later, he got out the chairs for him and his sister along with their sun glasses.  I guess he figures, if you can't beat 'em.  Join 'em.