easter "egg"stravaganza!

I absolutely love Spring, Easter and the symbols of new life you find everywhere.  Easter is one of my favorites for sure.  There is just something hopeful about the coming of Spring.

We had a busy Easter week filled with lots of fun things.  If you know me, I'm a "to do" list kind of girl.  I usually have sticky notes everywhere reminding me of what I need to accomplish or do.  This week, we threw the sticky notes & lists aside (most of the time :)) and just tried to soak up every ounce of this Easter season.

We had a few friends over to dye Easter Eggs.  This was a HUGE hit for Jackobi! She loved picking her color and waiting to see what magically appeared when she pulled her egg out of the color filled cup.  Green was her favorite.

I was plesantly surprised how careful she was and how patiently she waited for each egg to come out.  She wanted the colors to be brilliant & beautiful.  And they were.

They loved the end result and were more than proud to take their creations home.  And for some reason, they were all really excited to EAT their creations. 

funny faces!!

these silly girls make me smile.

they embrace life and new adventure.

Later in the week we had a little Easter party. It was grand. 

The Easter Egg Hunt was a hit. 

Here's our little group of kiddos ... pretty sure they weren't too happy we made them sit here for a picture before the free frawl began! Pretty cute just the same!

I'm a sucker for tradition, and an Easter Egg hunt is one that can't be missed!  It was so much fun to watch these little bodies scatter thru the yard searching for colorful eggs.  Even more fun to watch them as they discovered they were CANDY filled!

Jackobi's basket full of sweet goodness!

She learned how to pop these suckers open pretty quick!

Checking out their goodies!

     

             

                         life is good.                                           then enters ... the Easter Bunny!




Why is it that mama's like to torture their kid's with bunny pictures??  Oh it's so funny!
I have gotten a good many laughs looking at these "screaming baby" pictures so thought I'd share them ...

Jackobi had such a fun morning hanging out with her little friends!

and ended it with even a little more sugar ... who wouldn't want to eat a bunny cupcake??

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Saturday we had ANOTHER Easter Egg Hunt at Nate's Grandpa & Grandma Christiansen's house.  It was fun to get together with his cousin's little kids and search for eggs. 

Jackobi and Sydney did pretty good for themselves, they found most of the money eggs! Lucky girls! Before too long they'll be old enough to go and spend it together!

The egg hunters!
Jase, Kyler, Jackobi, Sydney, Hannah and baby Payden

I bumped the settings on my camera so the lighting is a bit weird on these, but I had to get a group shot!

Easter Morning was so much fun!  Jackobi tip toed towards her basket and after the trauma of meeting the bunny earlier in the week had to peak around the corner to make sure he wasn't still there.  It was pretty cute.  If you know Jackobi at all, you know that she loves dresses.  In fact, she insists on wearing a dress or skirt of some sort every single day.  The fluffier the better.  So she was more than thrilled to get a new Easter dress and model it for us often. 

She was even more excited that Kashton matched her pretty new dress.
I know he's a little young & small for a tie ... but I just couldn't resist!

our easter sweets.

love them.

hope your easter was happy

filled with what you love most