Easter festivities

We had so much fun celebrating Easter this year! I love that Emily's at an age where she can better understand the story of Christ's atonement and resurrection and Addie's at a fun age where she can participate more in all of the festivities! It was a perfect Easter season!

-My parents gave us an Easter creche so the girls could act out the story of the resurrection. Emily loved telling it over and over again to Addie!

-We decorated sparkly Easter eggs!

-We had a fun Easter egg hunt with family and friends at my parents' house. The kids decorated cookies, then we went outside for the hunt, and then we had a potluck lunch. So fun!!

the only picture I got with every kid

Addie got into it way more than I expected. She held her own with those big kids and found a lot of eggs all by herself!

someone snuck a taste before I could get a picture ;)

We bring out this bunny every year and Addie became best friends with it! For a couple days she wouldn't let it out of her sight!

-On Easter morning, the girls got to see their Easter baskets. We had bunny pancakes for breakfast! Then we went to church and had Easter dinner with my family.

we made resurrection rolls for lunch

I love this family of mine!

Happy Easter!

march madness!

The month of March was another fun and exciting one for our family! Here's what we've been up to lately...

-We started out the month with a trip to the zoo. We went with my sister's family and my brother who was in town from Saudi Arabia. It was Addie's first experience with the petting zoo and she was a big fan!

-We had a great St. Patrick's Day! We had cousins in town and invited some friends over for cookie decorating :)

Emily ran up to the door with the flower she picked for me ;)

Addie loves being one of the big girls!

-When my cousin was in town, my family all went to the Houston Rodeo. It was our first time taking the girls and they had a blast!

Emily's favorite part was watching the dogs herding sheep

-The Hawkins came in town to visit again and Emily and Erick had fun spying on the deer.

-We took our annual bluebonnet pictures. We probably should've waited a few more weeks because there weren't a lot of bluebonnets out yet, but it worked for our purposes ;)

nobody tell that Emily picked a bluebonnet!!

it was so hard to get a picture of the two of them because Emily kept pulling Addie over into the flowers

we had fun playing at the park after!

And that was only part of our month! We also did a lot for Easter, but I'm going to put that into its own post!