Easter

We had a really nice Easter.  I did not buy any new Easter clothes for the kids this year and they all got to pick out what they wore (even Kate).  She picked this dress that my friend, Staci sent to her last year.   Now you might think that is weird that I am mentioning Easter clothes. However, growing up, we always got new outfits for Easter. It was a time for new church clothes for Spring and Summer. In fact, there was a small Easter Parade in our town and our family won "best dressed family" two years in a row.  I know that is silly and shallow and not what Easter is about but it is kind of a family joke and I want my kids to know the story and have this photo to go with it someday.  The photo below was in the local paper one year when we won.

I am guessing that I am about 3 or 4 here?  I am the only light haired one in the family.  I love how we all have our white gloves and little purses and hats.  I wish my Mom had saved those.  Kate has actually asked me for white gloves!

The kids came down to their baskets Easter morning.  Harry is into gags and jokes so he got some fake barf and trick soap:)  Kate has been dying to learn magic so the Easter bunny left her a beginning magic kit.  She even did a mini magic show for us after dinner Easter night.  She also got Ramona and Beezus.  We watched it yesterday and it is adorable!!! Will found some mini lego figures and wikki sticks in his basket.

Every year I want to get the boys new baskets.  They have had these long before Kate joined our family.  But they like their baskets and they don't want new ones.

I just added this...I wanted to video them because photos don't capture their little voices and spontaneous actions....

Then we went to Mass to celebrate our risen Lord! We took a few photos on the way out the door to Mass...

I adore how Kate is looking up at Harry in this one.  She LOVES her brothers!

I am trying to get more photos of me with the kids so that when I am older they can remember what I used to look like...haha!

After Mass we had lunch and an egg hunt.  Dave hid the eggs and the kids did a great job finding them.

Harry was so quick...we did not get a good shot of him during the hunt:)




This was the last egg.  It was so visible but everyone kept walking right by it as Dave took these photos. I finally found it cause the kids were getting bored:)  It is a cupcake egg.  Cute, huh?  Kate got it at Sunday school.

The best part of the day for me was after the hunt...we let Scout outside and we just hung out on the back porch. No one was fighting or bickering or complaining. I love the rare occasion when that happens. We all just hung out for a little while...









Later we went for a family bike ride and had a delicious dinner.  We had the same thing as last year...rotisserie chicken that Dave did on his grill rotisserie.  It was so juicy and delicious.  We also had roasted garlic mashed potatoes and those skinny french green beans.

Thank you so much for all the support yesterday.  I wish I hadn't needed it, but I did.  I have disabled anonymous comments. I am so sorry to my dear real life friends who are not bloggers and used to like to leave comments that way but I saw no choice.   Someone asked me why I share so much here.  This is my life journal.  I look back on it to remember what we did last year and in years past.  I use it to remember my kids medical history sometimes and all the little milestones.  I so wish I had it when the boys were younger. It is simply the way I record all the important details of my family.  I honestly had no idea so many other people would ever read it.  Someday, when I am gone, I hope my kids and their wives or husbands or children will read this and know who I was and how much I loved them.  I try to show them everyday but I know that memory fades.