Happy Easter!

I have so much to share, it's hard to draw line and only share one or two pictures.

So, indulge me, I'm sharing a lot.

I should do what Margaret did.

Wish I could, but, I just can't.

I try to be simple, really, I do.

Instead of showing each individual food from our Lenten teas,

I'm going to show the picture of our table before we started.

Above is our Holy Thursday Lenten Tea

And here is our Good Friday Lenten Tea

The food was so good, it hardly felt like good Friday!

Here are our Lenten Pretzels,

we made to have with bean soup on Good Friday.
You'll get the idea of who my helpers by the end of this post!

Those same 2 little girls are the only ones who colored their days during Lent!
Cry with me, my kiddos are growing up.

Those same little girls made these beautiful eggs for our windows!
(we got the idea from the Crafty Crow)

After trying a new way to dye eggs and it failing, and returning it to Wal-Mart,
we just did the cheapest, easiest and best way to do it, (in my opinion)
good old fashioned Paas dye and crayons.
(Oops, this picture is out of order)
We made these Empty Tomb rolls this morning,
yesterday morning was just too busy before Church.


Here's my little helpers again, busy making bird nests!



Our beans have been replaced with abundant jelly beans!

Our Resurrection Eggs have been read and looked at several times!

My husband bought me a beautiful Easter Lily

Here we are Easter Morning.....

Yep. You guessed it. We do the Easter Bunny.

We also do Jesus.
We know what Easter is about.
It's about Jesus Rising from the dead.
My kids know that.
But, seriously, folks, the candy is about the bunny.

I'll tell you a secret.
The Easter bunny is not a lie.
I am the Easter bunny in our home.
Just like I am mama, wife, tooth fairy, Santa, nurse, cook....
well...you get the picture.
I have a "to each his own" attitude about the Easter bunny and all that stuff.
Really, this is what we do.
You do what you do.

Here are us girls

I am actually wearing a dress for the first time in a long, long time.
I am trying to wean baby from breastfeeding.
She is nursing now only in the morning and at bedtime.
Cry with me now?

When your kiddos take the pictures,

you get a lot of blurry ones so this is it for me and daddy.

Candy!!

As you can see from my header picture,

This was no easy task to get this picture!
Yes, I bribed them with jelly beans.

My baby is 20 months old now.

(can you hear me sobbing?)
She's so little though.
She's such a baby.
She is not a big girl.

OK, she's a big girl.
But
She's still my baby.

We celebrated Easter with friends of ours,

After almost 2 full weeks of rain, cold and rain, oh, and snow...

Easter Sunday, the sun was out and it was in the 60's!!

It was our own Minnesota Miracle!

Easter Egg hunting!

I got a lot of pictures of the babe....she's so darn cute in her dress and tennies.

That sums up my girls.

girly girls with tennies.
Not afraid of getting dirty.

Isn't he sweet?

They big boys counting their findings

My brave girls doing the zip line!

Special sides I brought along:

Company Salad

Lazy Cheesecake Fruit Salad

Lite Strawberry Pie

Happy and Blessed Easter everyone!!