Easter

Elaina picked out her own Easter dress this year which was a good thing since I laid out the same dress as she wore last year unbeknownst to me. I only figured it out after I looked back at my blog from Easter 2014. 

Getting a picture of all of the kids together was a total chore this year. If three of them were being awesome, one of the wasn't. And of course it would be the one that should be old enough to know better...

Finally a decent one! 

As is yearly tradition, we had our cousins over for an egg hunt and a big lunch after church. 

Gone are cute baskets and walking with your kids as they hunt for little eggs. That's all now replaced with whatever kind of bag we can find and then it's sprinting through the yard. I was lucky enough to catch one decent picture of Grant hustling through the grass bagging eggs.

It seems every year we have less and less candy eggs and more and more money eggs. This year's ten dollar egg winner was Cade. 

Everyone sat around and totaled out their findings. Grant had over thirty bucks but the high winner was Isaac with $42!!

One pic of Nana and Papa with their grandkids:

And, Grandpa and Grandma with theirs:

 It was great to spend another year with family celebrating how great God's love for us is! So thankful we serve a RISEN SAVIOR!

Celebrating Easter!

I love Easter celebration. Along with the joy we have knowing that we serve a risen Savior there is also the promise of spring sunshine and warmer temps. Easter means summer is even closer...and I LOOOVE summer:) The kiddos posed for our yearly Easter photo after church. I used to get all fancy-like with their clothes when they were babes but now...eh. Let's dress up in what we've got and roll on. They're handsome/beautiful either way! 

Elaina did our church's yearly egg hunt and she let Pastor Bunny hold her for a picture. We've come a long way since it wasn't too long ago that PB made her cry:)

Elaina met up with one of her bffs, Garrison. 

And, off to hunt! 

Sunday after church is always our cousin egg hunt. This year it was warm enough for Elaina to change out of her church dress right into her swim suit! 

I never have gotten into the tradition of doing easter baskets from the bunny. I think it probably stems back to me forgetting one year and no one made a fuss so I figured from then on I'd just make my life a little less complicated and not even fool with that. What we do do is hide a bunch of money eggs and the kids go nuts about that. 

Rhett made off with the $10 egg this year! 

This is probably one of my most favorite pictures of all time. Look at little Sugar Sweetness in her suit with all of those colorful eggs!  I just think she's beautiful:)

G counted up all of his money. I think he ended up with around 30 bucks when all was said and done! I think that's pretty good for an egg hunt! 

And, here's my Cader Tater. He's growing up...sigh. 

His stash wasn't too shabby! Pile o' money, pile o' rolos. What more could you ask for? 

Another wonderful Easter celebration in the books. I'm thankful for these kids of mine that run amuck and hunt eggs, for sunny days of spring, and for my Jesus that loved me enough to die for me but could not be contained by the grave!