Easter festivities

You would think that by now I would figure out how blogger uploads pictures and I wouldn't always have my pictures in the wrong order but that isn't the case... oh well!
This year for Easter I decided to be crafty and make ties for all my guys! My mom got me a pattern when she was visiting and it happened to be the easiest tie pattern in the world! There was NO hand stitching whatsoever. I really love how they turned out. I also made Amelia's and my skirt. I never thought I would be a matchy matchy kind of mom but guess what... I am!

Someday I really want to spend the week before Easter really studying the last week of Christ's life. But this year wasn't the year. Although we did try to focus more on the life of Christ and forget about the Easter Bunny. Why is is that I feel like I have to use the Easter Bunny in my festivities? I guess I don't want my kids to be the ones that tell other kids it isn't real. I don't like the Easter Bunny and don't see the point. Although I do love colored eggs and Easter egg hunts and Easter parties- mostly because we do all of that with family and I love being with my family.

This year Josh's parents came over to help decorate the Easter eggs. We had a lot of fun. Thanks to the blog world. We used my friend Jen's idea to use rubber cement and another idea from some other blog (I can't remember who's) and used hole reinforcers. We got some pretty fun eggs with these!

Later that afternoon we went to my Aunt's house in Lindon and had an Easter egg hunt for the kids, a fishing pond and other games. I had planned some awesome games but the weather didn't want to participate with us. We had a great Easter meal and it was just fun to hang out with my cousins. I found out that one of my cousins works for that pawn shop in Las Vegas Pawn Stars. I know... pretty impressive! I know someone who knows famous people! Of course I just might get a glimpse of her sometime... she is the jewelry girl.

Don't ask why Max is in only a sweatshirt... lets just say that this kid needs to be potty trained. I need to get to that... maybe once the twins are weaned.

We had a fantastic Easter! It is one of my favorite holidays! Okay I say that about everyone but I guess I just love celebrating with friends and family. I think I need to throw more parities!