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Showing posts with label Easter. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Easter. Show all posts

Friday, May 23, 2014

Easter 2014

Well..I've made it a full month of no blogging!  It wasn't necessarily an intended break… but I am trying to make priorities and not spread myself so thin….and so blogging made its way to the bottom of the list.  I have quite a few things I want to get posted on here for memories' sake so I'm hoping to get caught up here over the next week or so.

The Friday before Easter we did some Easter egg coloring.





Bub did some playing outside…but opening and shutting the back door was his favorite thing to do.  








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The Easter bunny was good to the girls and gave them Elsa and Anna swimsuit, beach towel, and flip flops.  Nolan got some new snack puffs and little bath bubble blower (that did not work!).



Geoff had to work and the girls were really good on this morning to get ready without complaining and just did everything I asked the first time I asked.  Yay!!  We even made it to early service which started at 8:10!  

After church, we spent the rest of the day at my mom's house.  I tried to get a good picture of the kids, but it just wasn't happening.  I wasn't too concerned since we had just gotten quite a few good ones at the bluebonnet patch.


Baby's First Easter…and he looked too cute in his suit.




I think this picture is my favorite from the day.  


After a wonderful lunch- Kristin, Phil, and Poppa hid the Easter eggs outside.  This year- we decided to number the eggs with a 1, 2, or 3.  Each girl had their own number…I can't remember who was what…but basically Parker would get all of the 1s, Grace all of the 2s, and Payton all of the 3s.  It helped it to be more of a 'hunt' and lasted a little longer.  This also helped with them all ending up with the same amount.


Nolan napped, but this cutie came out for a a bit to watch.













And their favorite part…..eating the candy!

A very blessed Easter…celebrating the most important thing…that Jesus died for our sins so that we could live one day with Him forever.

Here lately I've struggled a lot with sin and falling short of His glory every single day.  And just feeling not good enough (which I'm not!) to deserve salvation.  And it's true.  There is nothing we can DO to secure our place in heaven.  All we have to do is BELIEVE.  And realizing that God sent His Son even though He already knew how much I (and you!) would fall short….shows us again His unfailing love for us.  And that's just pretty amazing.

Sunday, March 31, 2013

Easter 2013


We had a pretty good Easter this year!  We were able to spend it together as a family....and so that makes it pretty great in and of itself.

I haven't quite figured out all of the logistics of the Easter bunny and such...but we do Santa....and we did the Easter bunny and Santa when I was growing up...and I never questioned the difference between Jesus being the real deal when I discovered that Santa and the Easter bunny were not.  So...we 'll see.

Grace didn't want him to come though!  She does not like the idea of a strange bunny coming into our house in the wee hours of the morning while she's sleeping.  Ha!  I guess I don't blame her.  :)


Parker was up right at 7:00.  Nothing new.  She could not stand waiting to open up her basket.  I did put her off til I showerd and until Geoff was out of bed.  And because I wanted to let Grace sleep a little bit longer...we let her go ahead and open her basket.

She got a Merida dress up dress that she had been wanting since before we went to Disney World.  She was very excited about this!  And also 2 pair of flip flops.


Grace got up about 20 minutes later and opened up her Pocahontas dress and flip flops.  Right now- Pocahontas or Cinderella are her movies of choice to watch when Parker is at school.  It's so cute and sweet.



 I took this year off and just bought their Easter dresses instead of making them myself.  I was so glad I did!  It was so nice not having to worry about it at all....and...there was no argument from the girls because they picked them out.  
I think they look so cute, too!



Check out Parker's shoes.  Oh brother.  She wanted some shoes that 'make noise' for Easter....which was fine.  And then Kristin found these at Payless.  They're ridiculous.  But she loves them and she's proud of them...and I guess I don't really care if she wears these shoes.  Never thought my 5 year old would be wearing heels though.  Haha!  :)


We had Sunday school and a great sermon at church....then headed to Kristin's house for lunch.  She did everything! {Thank you, Kristin and Phil!}  And it was all SO good!

Miss Payton



We took our family pictures right before we ate so we could get the girls out of their dresses.  It had been a little overcast, but the sun was trying to come out...and so it was quite bright.  Hence- all of our squinty faces.  Oh well.





Mom and Terry


Kristin, Phil, and Payton



They've finally figured out how to get really high by themselves!




The food: brisket, potato salad, cole slaw, baked beans, and deviled eggs.  Yum!

 Chocolate chip cookie cake that did not disappoint!




It was a little to wet to hunt eggs outside...so we improvised and had a little hunt inside.

Grace, Parker, and Payton.  Ready. Set. GO!







I think they found all of the eggs and I don't think it made a difference to them being inside.

Hope ya'll had a Happy Easter!  We sure did have a blessed one.

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Our family- Easter Past

(Grace was sick, so only Parker and I went to church.  Then I had to go home and take a nap before going into work later that evening.  No fun.)


Easter 2011
I think I worked and I don't have a picture.  :(

Grace is SO little!


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