Happy Easter

We were lucky enough to have two Easter egg hunts this year. One with our cousins after school so that Ethan could go too...

and one with our friends. Most of the same friends we have done this with  for the last 6 years. We keep adding to the bunch and it sure is fun!

Hudson and Brooklyn really had fun this year. They of course were quite preoccupied with the candy in the eggs rather tahn collecting as many eggs as they could. ( I love this picture of Hudson because it shows how he wears his hats these days. He loves to wear hats and he loves to wear them backwards. I think it's pretty cute!)

I enjoy reading Ann Voskamp's blog every now and then. On this link she describes making an Easter garden with your kids in preparation for Good Friday and Easter. We decided to do it with our kids and they loved it. Each night from Palm Sunday until Good Friday we lit a candle and read from the Bible. It was really meaningful to prepare our hearts for what Easter is all about. I think we have a new tradition started.

And then there was Easter morning. A morning we are all "supposed" to be happy and ready to celebrate. It was kind of a rough morning for us, Kevin and I were busy packing for our trip to the coast later that afternoon and I think the kids felt the stress. The bright moment of the morning was finding Easter baskets at the door that the Easter Bunny (aka Nana) left by the door. We did pull it all together though and managed to get a couple decent pictures. But I thought I should include the outtakes, because that's life afterall:)

One more with mommy because my birthday was the next day:)