Friday, April 27, 2012

Easter 2012


 We had such a wonderful Easter, I really had to go back and share it.  We had crafts...


My parents came to visit, which is always wonderful.  I decided to try carrot cake pancakes, and guess what?  Yeah, they tasted just like carrot cake!

 One of my favorite games as a kid was checkers.  I taught Allison our Easter version, "Chickers," and she had fun challenging Grandpa.  Maybe next ear she'll win!  :)

 For our actual Easter Sunday breakfast we did "bunnies in the nest."




 I'll be honest... I'm not too fond of Easter baskets; way too much candy!  (Of course, it's my fault, but still...)  I was so excited to find these "Nobunny loves you like Jesus" printables on Pinterest.  Very fun! 

 The girls were thrilled to discover their Easter baskets and got right to coloring.  I love the jammies and sleepy-eyed girls in these pictures!
 

 

After breakfast, the girls put on their Hawaiian dresses from Uncle Nate for church.  Good thing it was warm out!  Mr. Handsome was put in pastel blue overalls.  Our service was amazing.  I am so thankful for our incredible church.  You can check it out here.
 
We finally colored our eggs on Easter afternoon.  Silly Mommy used rice wine vinegar, (as that was all we had!)  Just so you know, it doesn't work. you need the real deal!  But, we had fun trying!



As a little girl, every year my mom would make these elaborate eggs for me to color.  Now she makes them for my girls!



Easter was also a special day as it was the day we moved our chickens into their coop.


Love this picture of Natalie!







 Ha!


My parents brought along with them a bunch of Meyer lemons... mmm.... so we made some fresh lemonade and lemon meringue pie for Easter dinner dessert.


As always, my husband did an amazing job with our Easter dinner!  The prime rib was fabulous!  After dinner, we went for a family walk.  Once again, this was nostalgic for me as I loved family walks after holiday dinners when I was a kid.  My girls seem to be taking after me.  It was a perfect end to our day!

Thursday, April 26, 2012

Starting Over

See this face?  I see it a lot, lately!  It's a phase Allison is going through, and she often shows me her "mad" face.  Of course, I think it's adorable.  My response is always the same.  "Oh, sweetie... do you need a kiss?  I just love your 'kissy' face!"  Luckily, she is pretty easy-going.  My kiss usually turns this face into a giggly one!


I chose this picture for today as it shows the emotion I feel about starting over on my blog.  I am truly bummed to have to begin again.  I tried to purchase more space on my old blog so I could continue, but with no luck.  Now I simply must start over, and there is quite a bit of a learning curve with this new template from Blogger.  I started looking at it over a week ago, and became completely overwhelmed.  Alas, my desire to blog won out, and I forced myself to sit-down and figure this thing out!  I have a long way to go, but here I am!


Thanks for meeting me here.  If you have any tips to share, I am all ears!  For example, how do I get that picture on my header to be smaller?  Hmmm.... Most likely my posts for the next month or so will have a lot of looking back over April since I missed out on blogging most of this month.  Please bare with me... I promise I have some fun stuff to share!