Easter and sun

Oh my beautiful weekend!! Easter could not have fallen on a more beautiful weekend this year. We enjoyed every minute of our first taste of spring.

Family photo op at the Easter carnival

Crazy lips and soda- just part of the carnival loot

Ella grabbing as many eggs per hand as possible!

Aubrey....I can only imagine she is saying "What ddaaaadd?" given this face ;-)

Ainsley, poor girl. I failed to realize that she had never been in the grass before the day of the egg hunt and just set her right down in it. She was less than thrilled!! I handed her an egg to try to entice her, she sat there a minute holding onto the egg and chewing on it but as soon as she dropped it she was done. I helped her stand up, thinking then she might at least reach down and grab the eggs. Well she reached down, got one feel of the grass and then picked her hand right back up minus the egg!  I tried to set her back down with the eggs but by this time she had reached her limit and when I asked if she was "all done?" she quickly shook her little hands (the sign for all done) and started crying. Mommy really wasn't trying to torture you sweet girl!!

Easter morning...Let the hunting begin! 

 Both girls are far too quick and both running in opposite directions to get very good pictures of the hunting process, but I'm sure you can imagine what it looks like for these characters to be scooping up eggs ;-)

We found our Easter baskets hidden in the washer and dryer.

Ainsley slept through the first part of the morning so she got to hunt for her basket after breakfast.

 

Grandma Marian once again made the girls matching Easter dresses this year. I also got in on the dress-making action =) We have found Project Runway patterns and I have to say I love them! Sorry Grandma for all those years I balked at you making dresses for me =) 

 I am also finding that taking photos of 3 very energetic girls proves to be a bit of a challenge. Here are our best attempts at Easter pictures:

Logan and Quin came over for Easter dinner and an afternoon egg hunt. The sunshine was too much to resist so they put on their swimsuits and jumped on the trampoline with the sprinkler....how many times does that happen in Oregon on Easter?!?

Well as I am writing this our sunshine has quickly turned into liquid sunshine, but at least we enjoyed it while it lasted!!! Happy Spring =)