Easter goodness

there is just nothing like making the holidays special for my two sweet peas.....i love it. planning ahead and staying up late baking and putting everything together, laying out their dresses and little pale pink tights. mostly its the anticipation of seeing their faces...full of joy and wonder.

i want our holidays to be extra special. to be full of happiness and comfort.

because the bottom line is....our children only get one childhood. (and its slipping away faster each year)

sooooo yesterday's Easter was a beautiful day. full of what makes holidays so precious to me. traditions with family and lots of big smiles!

Easter Egg fun at school with friends....

Egg dying with Mimi, Grammy and Daddy....

an impromptu egg hunt with our favorite neighborhood family across the street....

just thinking about how that tall, beautiful girl standing in the middle used to be a little four year old preschooler when we first moved here. (the same age sammy is now) man time flies by!

Easter morning....cinnamon rolls and bunny clues

this next picture...umm... melts.my.heart.

(listening as Daddy reads the first clue from the Easter Bunny)

looking in Mommy's pocketbook for a clue...kinsley followed her big sister and craned her neck looking all over, doing just what sister was doing.

the rest of our morning was spent at church celebrating Easter singing and praising

a festive holiday lunch at Grammy's house next on the list of fun....pretty table all set, sprinkle cookies from Aunt Connie, kids running everywhere and boys cheering on the Masters. yay!

(sweet cousins)

and finally our day was complete with Aunt Linda's annual egg hunt outside, big ham dinner and Eppers too. the same traditions from when I was little.

did I mention how much I love my family? what a day!

so grown up

love our Nanny

after the hunt the girls went inside to count their eggs and we stayed outside just a little bit longer with Nanny in the driveway and the cool breeze....breathing in all the goodness around us.

cracked us up....the way kins would check out her eggs. double checking?...sizing it up maybe...wondering what the heck we were really doing? hehehe

happy Easter my sweet little bunnies...i sure do love you Samantha and Kinsley Jane.