He is RISEN!!

April 5th: Easter Sunday 2015

HAPPY EASTER Y'ALL!! For the follower of Christ, Easter is the celebration of Christ death on the cross and resurrection from the grave. It is a time to celebrate what life it really about! I love that this happens to coincide with spring... and new birth! Everything is green and sparkling with the promise of "new life" in Christ!!



The Easter bunny came!!

GG made the girls these adorable Easter baskets!

It is so helpful to have a GG that is so crafty and talented.

My two beauties checking out their Baskets. (KE seems more interested in Blakely's basket... hmmmm? Who does this remind me of? ALYSSA!)

Blakely loves a new princess!

This Easter needs a before and after picture.... because it is pretty dramatic.

We will call this little beauty the "BEFORE" shot.

Katy Ellis in that bonnet is just making my heart beat fast!

Dear Beaufort Bonnet Company, Your advertisement that they are "only little once" made me cry... and then buy.... I am such a sucker! But MAN she really is cute!

This Easter we had an extra special guest of honor.... GRANNY KOKO!!

14 months old and still "knee walking." Not sure she will EVER walk. Crazy baby.

GG and PopPop gave the kids adorable beach pails as Easter baskets, and inside each pail was a personalized, hand made beach towel! So precious! GG is amazing.

Blakely's towel was definitely my favorite! GG had made her an Elsa towel. Blakely was so, so excited! She kept saying "Go away Anna!"

Katy Ellis had a really cute fish!

These girls love their GG and PopPop!

With two squiggly girls, taking a family picture is almost impossible... this is AS GOOD AS IT GETS people!

GG and Granny Koko had set up a fun Easter egg hunt for the kids (sans candy).

Even KK got to find some eggs!

These two would hunt eggs ALL DAY LONG!

Love her excited little face when she finds a new egg!

Daddy and his two best girls!

Here is where things start to break down....egg painting with shaving cream.

Blakely loves art projects! She literally painted eggs for >30 minutes. You can already tell in this picture that her hands are turning green!!

No picture of it, but after the egg hunt Blakely's clothes got wet... when she walked straight into the lake!

Maybe she'll be good at gardening... I think she might have a green thumb! (That was a lame joke, but it had to be said folks!)

Banks had other ideas was what to do with shaving cream.... hmmm?



At this point, Blakely has lost her clothes to the lake (hence the princess jammies in the day light), her hands are green like the Hulk, and she is flying through the yard with her new fairy wings! A day at GG and PopPops is pretty great from a 3 year olds perspective.

Keeping it classy, South Carolina.

GG also gave them collapsible, pirate daggers in their Easter basket.... the yard became the scene of a massacre!



Poor Uncle Matt! Stabbed to death by toddlers!

So we started the day in our beautiful smocked dress, new silver sandals and a big white bow, that was the BEFORE.
This.... this is the AFTER. Tacky princess jammies, green hands, no bow, bear foot and running with dagger through the yard. *sigh* She may be girlie, but she sure ain't prissy.

HAPPY EASTER Y'ALL!! Hope you had as much fun celebrating our Savior as we did!!