I am finally getting around to posting about Easter. Life has been so CRAZY lately! I love it crazy because I seem to get more done, but I haven't had a lot of time for blogging. Easter this year was my favorite Easter our little family has ever spent together. The whole week was filled to the brim with Christ-centered activities. Thanks to those activities Easter Sunday was full of good questions and conversations about the Savior. I felt as if our goal of a "Christ-Centered Easter" was accomplished.
To be honest though, I also love the Easter bunny side of things. I believe it has it's place too. Just not at the center of the holiday. The boys were so excited to wake up to their Easter baskets (we usually do baskets on Saturday, but were in Logan this year, so we did it on Sunday and Palmer, with the steel-trap memory was a little confused).
There was a lot of squeals of excitement and happiness. I do however need to have a word with the Easter bunny. For some reason she/he always forgets that when noisy toys are given, the parents have to live with them after. We have had our share of noise in the days following Easter.
Oh well. Kids should be surrounded with noise right? Well, weather right or wrong that seems to be how it goes in our house.
McKay was thrilled with his Easter basket as well. This year I ordered (I mean the Easter bunny ordered), hand dipped chocolate eggs from a family friend and they are the BEST things I have ever tasted. I am pretty sure I ate the majority of everyone's eggs (but I don't think they know, so let's just keep this between you and me :)
The boys were all thrilled with their new Easter clothes, although not as thrilled to have to sit for a picture.
This was my favorite detail, so I had to get a picture.
The mom and dad need a picture too.
Later after church we had our Easter egg hunt. After all of the candy of the weekend we decided to go with more healthy snacks for them to find. Josh is always so good at the hunt. He finds the funniest places to hide everything.
Okay so we did hide cookies but come on, these are MILANOS, not just your average cookies. But the rest of the prizes were things like string cheese, orange juice, pudding, fruit snacks and eggs filled with money.
McKay has been so funny with this little toy that he got in his basket. He loves to do it over and over and lets out little screams of frustration when it isn't going so well. It is so cute.
We were lucky enough to have my parents, brother and sister over for Easter dinner. We moved our table into the living room for more room, and just because it is fun :)
These were the little place settings I made for everyone.
Our centerpiece. I have loved making these little
paper roses.
Our little buffet. For dinner we had Peach-Mustard pork loin (seriously so yummy, recipe coming soon), and roast. We usually have a ham, but we definitely got to the store too late as they were all gone. I am glad that we didn't though because it forced me to find this new pork loin recipe and it melted in our mouths. I will make it again...soon.
The kids table. To be honest, the kids were so full of everything else, they picked at their dinner and ran off to play.
I love having family around and that was the crowning detail of our wonderful Easter. After dinner we had a program on Christ and the Resurrection and watched the Lamb of God. Then we ate strawberry cheesecake. And that was our wonderful Easter.
I am finally getting around to posting about Easter. Life has been so CRAZY lately! I love it crazy because I seem to get more done, but I haven't had a lot of time for blogging. Easter this year was my favorite Easter our little family has ever spent together. The whole week was filled to the brim with Christ-centered activities. Thanks to those activities Easter Sunday was full of good questions and conversations about the Savior. I felt as if our goal of a "Christ-Centered Easter" was accomplished. 
To be honest though, I also love the Easter bunny side of things. I believe it has it's place too. Just not at the center of the holiday. The boys were so excited to wake up to their Easter baskets (we usually do baskets on Saturday, but were in Logan this year, so we did it on Sunday and Palmer, with the steel-trap memory was a little confused).
There was a lot of squeals of excitement and happiness. I do however need to have a word with the Easter bunny. For some reason she/he always forgets that when noisy toys are given, the parents have to live with them after. We have had our share of noise in the days following Easter.
Oh well. Kids should be surrounded with noise right? Well, weather right or wrong that seems to be how it goes in our house.
McKay was thrilled with his Easter basket as well. This year I ordered (I mean the Easter bunny ordered), hand dipped chocolate eggs from a family friend and they are the BEST things I have ever tasted. I am pretty sure I ate the majority of everyone's eggs (but I don't think they know, so let's just keep this between you and me :)
The boys were all thrilled with their new Easter clothes, although not as thrilled to have to sit for a picture.
This was my favorite detail, so I had to get a picture.
The mom and dad need a picture too.
Later after church we had our Easter egg hunt. After all of the candy of the weekend we decided to go with more healthy snacks for them to find. Josh is always so good at the hunt. He finds the funniest places to hide everything.
Okay so we did hide cookies but come on, these are MILANOS, not just your average cookies. But the rest of the prizes were things like string cheese, orange juice, pudding, fruit snacks and eggs filled with money.
McKay has been so funny with this little toy that he got in his basket. He loves to do it over and over and lets out little screams of frustration when it isn't going so well. It is so cute.
We were lucky enough to have my parents, brother and sister over for Easter dinner. We moved our table into the living room for more room, and just because it is fun :)
These were the little place settings I made for everyone.
Our centerpiece. I have loved making these little paper roses.
Our little buffet. For dinner we had Peach-Mustard pork loin (seriously so yummy, recipe coming soon), and roast. We usually have a ham, but we definitely got to the store too late as they were all gone. I am glad that we didn't though because it forced me to find this new pork loin recipe and it melted in our mouths. I will make it again...soon.
The kids table. To be honest, the kids were so full of everything else, they picked at their dinner and ran off to play.
I love having family around and that was the crowning detail of our wonderful Easter. After dinner we had a program on Christ and the Resurrection and watched the Lamb of God. Then we ate strawberry cheesecake. And that was our wonderful Easter.
2 comments:
I LOVE your skirt, where did you get it???
Thanks! It is actually a dress from Shabby Apple.
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