Easter

 This is a little on the late side, but better late than never right?
We had a wonderful Easter, as usual. We enjoyed an incredible Good Friday service and fabulous Easter morning service at our church. It is always such a joy to be able to worship with such an amazing community of believers, especially at Easter!

 Thanks to Auntie Andrea Luke and Elin were stylin' this Easter! 

I wanted to get a nice picture of our family all 'prettied up' but, as usual, this just didn't work out. The kids cooperated (sort of) so I was able to get a few decent pics of them before meltdown central. 

We had a few friends over to celebrate with us on Sunday afternoon. Most (if not all) of us have no family close by so we tend to become one another's families for such occasions. :) It is such a special group of friends - we are SO blessed to have them all in our lives. What's even more fun is that our kids are all growing up together and becoming good friends as well! The blessings just keep coming!

The kiddie table. 

Pretty sure they all giggled and laughed more than they ate- guess they were just saving room for chocolate and jelly beans! 

Gearing up for the Easter egg hunt

 There was at least one camera per 2 kids out during the Easter egg hunt. I count 4 in this picture, not including the camera that was taking this picture. Gotta capture these memories! 

The Easter bunny ran out of good hiding spots for all the eggs! 

Lucky thing the kids didn't notice Matt continuing to hide some after the kids would find them - mystery of the reappearing Easter eggs!

showing off their loot

 

 We had just reseeded our front lawn days before so there were at least two large piles of left over dirt in the backyard. Dirt piles = irresistible to little boys. We did warn everyone that the backyard was/is a mess and to leave the nice Easter clothes at home. To say that the kids were filthy would be an understatement of cosmic proportions.

It may be gross, but I love how Luke's snot drip cleaned off the line of dirt above his lip. Priceless. 

Shout out to Mark Leonard (pro photographer markleonardimaging.com) for taking these awesome pictures! Thanks Mark!