Let's say Easter morning didn't start out 100% like we would like, but the day went up from there. I honestly feel like the devil works hard on us every Sunday and on Holidays involving church. He does his best (through our children) to make Matt and I want to throw our hands up and say "Its not worth it". Luckily he hasn't won yet! Mainly because it is worth it. We desperately want to help guide our children to walk with the Lord. What happened you ask? Well, it started with Cassidy throwing a tantrum about the dress I chose for her to wear and fuel was added to the fire when Carter decided that he did not want to tuck in his shirt. Thankfully, the battles were won and miraculously we were able to get everyone loaded in the car and to church in time to actually get a seat. Unfortunately, that means getting to church about 40 minutes before Mass starts. Any one want to guess how long a 2 year old can actually sit still? Answer = No where close to an hour and 40 minutes. Normally we take full advantage of the church nursery, but on Easter there is no nursery. I think we got up to walk around 2-3 times before mass started and we ended up taking her out twice during mass. There was a super nice family sitting behind us. One of the gentleman played peek a boo with her and tried to keep her entertained throughout mass. The other nice gentleman told me at the end of church to keep up the good work that I was doing a good job. Desperately needed to hear that at that moment, God is good!
As I said, the day progressively got better. After some Easter picture (seen below) in their church clothes, the kids were extremely ready to find their Easter baskets that the Easter bunny had hid. Always fun to watch them scurry around the yard looking for their baskets. As they have gotten older and faster, it is also now fun and funny to try and keep up with them to snap the pictures. Basket search was followed by mass candy eating, bubble blowing and the sugar crash that ended in naps. My mom was nice enough to fix an awesome Easter lunch for us while I worked Saturday. So we had a great lunch followed by an Easter egg hunt for the kids. Then the kids decided to hide eggs for Matt and I. It was super fun. All in all a great day creating memories with family.
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| Best we could do for a family photo. |
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| Ella Catherine (8), Carter (5) |
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| Ella Catherine and Carter with Nana |
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| My beautiful, sweet Ella Catherine |
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| My handsome, fun loving Carter |
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| Well her look sums it up! And would explain why she is not seen in some of the photos. But Love my Sassy Cassidy |
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| My loves! Matt with his girls and main man |
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| Sisters |
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| Silly Sisters |
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| Let the Basket hunt commence |
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| On a mission |
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| SUCCESS!!! |
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| Cassidy spies her basket |
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| Taking it all in |
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| Is that Candy? |
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| And she is OFF! |
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| Success! I think the Easter bunny may have to get a little trickier at hiding baskets next year |
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| checking out her loot |
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| Post Easter basket hunt |
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| Happy Easter |
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| Mom hiding Eggs for the kids easter egg hunt. Each child had a different egg color they were hunting and they each had 10 eggs to find. EC was green, Carter was blue and Cassidy was yellow |
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| Matt hiding Easter Eggs |
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| Cassidy hunting eggs |
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| Ella Catherine hunting eggs |
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| Cassidy found one |
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| Carter has is eye on one of his blue eggs |
