happy easter

i hope everyone had a happy easter. we had a lovely day, yesterday. it first started with us attending our sunrise easter service in the park next to our church. i will be completely honest that getting up at 5:00am on sunday was a bit hard but worth the experience. it was just awesome sitting outside in the fresh air listening to the birds sing, watching the sun come up as our associate pastor preached on the empty tomb. the air was crisp and cool, but not uncomfortable. i'm so glad we did it! i just wish every easter morning was as lovely as yesterday, but i know that's an unreasonable request.

after church we spent the day at mom's eating, spending time with family, playing and of course, hunting for easter eggs. the girls were absolutely exhausted by the end of day and so was i.

today, marks the beginning of our spring break. we are all looking forward to sleeping in and just hanging out. we don't have anything exciting planned at the moment and i'm ok with that. it's just hard to believe that the end of school is around the corner and summer will be upon us. wow, where does the time go?

hunting for eggs

lacey had her class easter egg hunt this morning at the park. talk about fun, and the weather you couldn't have asked for a more beautiful spring day than today. in fact, i was getting hot just standing out in the sun. the kids all had a blast hunting for eggs with their names on them and then getting to play on the playground. definitely what we need - running around outside to burn off that extra sugar we got from eating cupcakes and easter chocolate and not to mention juice boxes. honestly, i'm surprised i got lacey to leave.

Lacey's Easter Egg Hunt

There are some days when Kevin and I have to tag team, especially when both of the girls have things going on at the same time. Last Friday was a prime example of this. They both had their class Easter Egg Hunts at two different places and times. I went to Lela's because I'm the room mom and had made food for it, while Kev went with Lacey's to hers. Would you believe that I didn't really make any pictures from Lela's? I know, I know. What kind of mom am I? But Kev being the awesome dad he is made quite a bit from Lacey's. Here are just a few from her Easter Egg Hunt. It looks like she had a really good time.

IDEA: Easter Wreath

I always try and keep sometype of wreath on my front door. I love the way they make the front of the porch a little more inviting. For the past few weeks it's been screaming for sometype of Easter wreath. I had actually been looking for one, but couldn't find anything I liked. Well, the other day a friend of mine had made a wreath out of bright colored eggs and tulle. I absolutely fell in love with it! So, today I decided that I would do my version of her idea. I grabbed my hot glue gun and off to work I went. It was so cheap to make which makes it that more fun! I spent $5.00 for all the eggs (which was a total of 10 bags and I even had extra left over) plus the wreath form which was no more than around $3.00. So, for less than $10.00 I got this awesome one of a kind wreath.