Easter Princesses

Easter is a fun time to have girls...with Easter Sunday being a wonderful occasion to dress them up in their finest. This year my Dad & Rachel sent Alathea & Abigail these matching "princess Easter dresses", as the girls called them. Here are bunches of pictures of them as little easter princesses...

A sweet family picture from Easter afternoon, spent at Joe's families house.

Easter day was gorgeous and spent with family eating a yummy meal and hunting for eggs out back.

Abigail's "hunt" was cut short after finding her first egg to have candy in it. She happily stopped to eat the candy before proceeding to the next egg. Alathea on the other hand raced around the yard collecting 95% of the eggs. I love their different personalities!

Easter morning...very happy girls waking up to Easter baskets.

We bypassed lots of candy this year and ended up giving them books and play dough :)

They were happy!

We spent a good bit of time every evening the weeks prior to Easter, talking with the girls (mostly Alathea) about the Gospel and the true meaning of Easter. Each year I think (and hope and pray) a bit more sinks in...

This year Easter was a week long celebration.

Almost every night before bed we'd have a family easter egg hunt, sometimes outside and sometimes in the house. It was so fun! The girls (and Joe!) were quite competitive.

Our dear friends, the Lloyds, had the girls over for a morning to dye eggs, and make and decorate easter cookies. My girls had a blast!

And the day before Easter we went to our churches annual Easter Egg Hunt.

It was the craziest thing I've ever seen...the hunt was over about 30 seconds after it began!

Literally hundreds of kids sprinted to collect all the eggs as fast as they could leaving the littles in the dust :) Fortunately my girlies only cared about the candy in the eggs, not how many eggs they found, and were quite content with three eggs each.

Its hard to believe that next Easter we'll have THREE little girls.

Just 7 weeks until this little sweetie is due...