Easter Sunday

Easter morning can be quite stressful when you do all the typical Easter stuff before church and you have 9:00 church. Thankfully we made it through finding all the Easter eggs and baskets and somehow managed to give baths and get ready for church and still make it there on time. But next year, I think we might be moving the fun stuff to Saturday morning and focus on the spiritual side of things on Sunday. 

I must admit that my favorite thing about Easter morning and having four girls, is dressing them up in their Easter dresses. They all looked so adorable and they felt beautiful too.

Easter Egg Hunts

We started off the day today by heading to my parents house for our first Easter egg hunt. The girls were so excited and quickly collected a bunch of eggs.

Ashlyn recently decided that purple is her favorite color and only picked up purple eggs while Emma didn't enjoy the hunt at all. I thought she might like to crawl around and pick up the eggs. But as soon as I set her down, she lifted her right leg up into the air because she didn't want it to touch the grass. Don't ask me why her left leg could touch it but not her right leg. After about fifteen minutes of holding her leg off the ground, she got tired enough that she started to cry and the hunt was over for her.  

Then we got to enjoy a lunch with hot dogs (good quality ones according to Josh, because I only buy the cheep ones) and visit with family while the girls played with their cousins.

Then we were off to Josh's parents for the second hunt. They recently started hiding a gold and silver egg with larger money in them mainly for the adults, but Kali's old enough that she understands the value of money and really wanted to find those eggs this year. Unfortunately, our family didn't find any of the big prizes. Brady found one and Danielle found the other.

After the Easter egg hunt, the girls got to swing at an egg pinata.

Thankfully it held up just long enough for each of the kids to get a turn. Kali was last and finished it off. And then we enjoyed our second barbecue of the day along with more visiting and family time. What a fun day!

Coloring Easter Eggs

Coloring Easter eggs is one of my favorite things to do around Easter time. The girls love it too and we ended up with some pretty cool eggs this year. I forgot to take a picture of the final product, but we bought a kit that gave them a metalic / marble look that was awesome.

Easter Morning

Easter morning is so much fun when you have girls. I get to dress my cute girls up in cute clothes, and they love it just as much as I do. Now if I could just get them to cooperate for a picture. I think we took about 50 pictures and this is the only one where they're all looking. Unfortunately it's a little blurry. Oh well, they still look cute.

Easter Egg Hunts

I love this picture because of all the bright colors everyone is wearing. They almost look like a basket of colored Easter eggs themselves. This was taken at our first Easter egg hunt of the day at Grandma Bohman's house. She had a silver egg and a golden egg hidden with bigger prizes in them and Kali found both of them within the first few minutes of the hunt. She was so excited.

At Grandma Smith's house, a silver and gold egg were also hidden, but they were for the adults. They were not easy to find at all. But after a lot of hints, Josh ended up with the silver one. The girls just loved the candy. Ashy would open up the eggs, and if they didn't have candy in them, they were thrown to the side.

Coloring Easter Eggs

We almost forgot to color Easter eggs this year. Thankfully we remembered less than 48 hours before because it's one of my favorite things to do, and I would have been really sad to have to wait another year. Despite Sadie's frown in this picture, I think my girls have developed the same love for coloring eggs. We had some pretty fun colors this year and discovered a new use for the clear crayon

Ashlyn's eggs turned out the best though. She was plopping any egg she could find into the different colors. It didn't matter how many colors they already had on them. And because of all the mixtures, her eggs were pretty darn cool. Thankfully Josh was in charge of keep her under control because I don't think I would have been able to laugh about color flying everywhere as easily if she had been my responsibility. She had so much fun.

Easter Sunday

Today turned out to be such a beautiful day. Here are the girls in their Easter dresses. It was a jean theme this year. Everyone kept asking me if I made the dresses. No way, I am not that talented!!! Besides, the Easter Bunny gave them to the girls. Not me.

Easter Egg Hunts

The girls got to take part in two Easter egg hunts today. One for my side of the family and one for Josh's side of the family. They were both a ton of fun.

But I think the highlight was the water barrel at Aunt Krista's house. The thing was so huge that tons of people could be in it at the same time. There were a few hard falls when the adults were in it, including Josh, but the kids went slow enough that everyone survived. I think Kali spent a good 45 minutes in the barrel. Sadie spent most of the time on her hands and knees crawling. I didn't know she could crawl that fast for that long.

Coloring Easter Eggs

Coloring Easter eggs was the highlight of the Easter season for me growing up and is still something I look forward to every year. Josh just has to remind me to calm down and not get so frustrated that the girls want to color 18 eggs in two minutes. After showing Kali some of the cool ways you can dip an egg, she caught the spirit of it. They're holding some of our favorites in this picture. Ashlyn was pretty fascinated with the eggs and just wanted to hold one. She was giving it kisses until she dropped it. The disgusted look on her face is because of the cracks that are now in her "ball".