Friday, April 20, 2012

Easter 2012

Dying Easter eggs. Maddy inherited Jared's attention to detail. She spent about 20 min coloring one egg while Abby and Maddy colored and dyed all of theirs in about 10 min.
We decided to open Easter baskets and do the egg hunt on Saturday so that the kids could focus more of Christ and His resurrection on Easter morning. So here is Nathan on Saturday morning trying on his new hat from Grandma.
Maddy with her Easter basket.
Abby searching for eggs.
A pink one!
Maddy looking for eggs.
Maddy helped Nathan so he could find some too.
Maddy took Easter egg hunting very seriously. She ended up with twice as many eggs as Abby and Nathan.
All our little artists were excited that the Easter bunny left them a new easel for their artwork.
On Easter morning the kids got their new church clothes from Grandma and the prayer pillows I made to remind them to say their personal prayers. Nathan was very excited.
Our sweet Abby
Our darling Maddy
All the kids together
Nathan was very excited about his new suit for church. He kept saying, "I handsome like Dad!" So here's a picture of our two very handsome guys.
Jared with all the kids.
Here are the kids on Easter night wearing their new pajamas. Abby is holding some Easter lilys she made. One day while I was taking a nap she read directions for the craft in her Friend magazine and she decided to make it all on her own. She had Jared hide it and then she gave them to me as a surprise on Easter morning.