Easter!

So this Easter was a different one than we are used too, we actually did the normal Easter stuff. We dyed eggs Saturday morning.

They were colored and glittered..

Than Saturday night after the girls went to bed I was the Easter Bunny. I am not all that into hidding stuff from the kids... they are too young to get it and so it's not really that big a deal my reason is just to make a big deal about it. Holidays are big to me and so I try and make a big deal out of them. Christmas there gifts are hidden and we talk more about Santa but Easter, they picked there own stuffed animals out... so it wasn't that big of a secret.

Well... I filled the plastic eggs with candy and made a trail from there door to the front room, and than I hid eggs around the front room so they could find them when they woke up.

Of course I made it pretty easy!

Sami picked right up on my little game. She opened her bedroom door woke us up and than told me that there were eggs on the ground. I told her she needed to collect them that they were left for her. So I grabbed a basket and held it for her while she gathered and searched.

She found them all. My parents did easter baskets but me and my little sister Torrie and I would hide jelly beans for each other to find, it became pretty fun especially when my brother would find some months even years later and eat them... it was no big deal after a while... just fun!

After Sami had gathered all the eggs Daphne woke up and so we hurried and made another trail and hid some of the eggs and than got Daphne out of bed and put her on the ground to pick up the first egg. To say my girls are opposites is the complete truth. They are a like in a lot of ways but Daphne sat down, picked up the egg and grabbed out the candy and started snacking away... her stomach is always thinking for her. We than just gathered all the eggs because we wanted to limit her candy supply.

We got ready for church and they wore there new easter dresses. Of course they were matching, Sami's dress had yellow trim on it and so she wore her white sweater, and her yellow hair bow

Daphne's dress had pink trim so she wore her pink sweater. To be honest with you, I had enough fabric left over to make myself a tank top to go over a white shirt... so I matched them... I have been having a blast with my "One Yard Wonder Book" if you like to sew... buy it, it's awesome! I was sewing all week! My sewing machine is a permanent fixture in our front room.

Dave I am so proud of, he has lost 15 lbs in the last 3 weeks. He got weighed yesterday. He still has 40 pounds he wants to loose, when you get that heavy the more in danger you are of having major health problems, so he (working at GNC) is trying his hardest not to be a statistic, and it's great... he is a lot better company, and it's a great example to me... I have eaten less since he started... and can feel a difference... even if the scale doesn't show... (it never does for me, grrr my stupid body)

We didn't take pictures of the rest of our day. We went to Sacrament meeting and I sang "I know my Redeemer lives" with the ward choir, and than we came home changed and drove to Post Falls which is an hour drive away through Spokane, to spend the afternoon with Daves sister Laura and her husband Tim and there daughter Casey and several of there friends. It was a great day. They have the perfect party house. They had easter baskets for all the kids with goodies and so they also had an easter egg hunt and than had a huge ol feast. We went home with several plates of food, which of course I didn't mind...

One of the plates was veggies and we just left it on the table... the rest of the night we would catch the girls snacking on the veggies... it was a sweet release from the begging of candy.. Daphne was hilarious though, she would take a bite of something and if she didn't like it she would put it on the table next to the plate... if she liked if she ate it... it was pretty good!

This is Sami's dress, Daphnes was the same style just smaller. They were pretty easy to make once I figured out what I was doing... they are called a "ballet neck dress" the sleeves are a little huge but it is a great spring/summer dress. They like them and they are cute on. I am not into big frilly dresses! Unless they are bought for me or made for me!

Thanks mom for the fabric though!