Easter

It's been a whole month and I am finally blogging about our Easter. We have made it a tradition to do all the Easter basket/egg hunt festivities on Saturday. We're hoping if we do the Easter Bunny on Saturday, we can make it a tradition of celebrating Christ's resurrection on Sunday.

This year we attended our regular worship services then had a nice family dinner at my mom's house. It was to be one of the last times we could get together with Uncle Gabe before he deployed to Afghanistan for nine months. All the cousins were there. The weather was perfect. It was such a great day to be with family.

The kids all got new church clothes as part of our Easter tradition. The boys, obviously, weren't so thrilled, but Beatrice was so excited. She could hardly wait to wear her Easter dress. I tried to get some decent pictures of the family all dressed up, but the sun was too bright and high in the middle of the day and by the time church and dinner was over, none of the kids were as neat and polished as they had started.

Looking pretty in her pastels. She was so good about letting me braid her hair the night before.

Franklin enjoying the nice spring weather and his grandparents' house. We love the trampoline.

Solomon was just as busy as ever. His hair just as crazy as ever too.

Some random pictures of our Easter.

Just a few days before Easter, we found this cute little bunny hopping around our neighborhood. In fact there were three little bunnies. We think someone decided the nature preserve behind our house would be a good spot to drop off their unwanted rabbits. Poor little things. It was pretty obvious the bunnies were used to living in captivity because they were very tame and friendly. We took one home and my neighbors took the others home in hopes of someone claiming them. When nobody claimed our bunny after a week of advertising, we decided to let someone adopt him. He was awfully cute and soft and sweet. The kids kept asking if they could get rid of Lola and keep the rabbit instead. If we had a decent back yard, I might have considered it. He really was that cute, but awfully messy and stinky.

Solomon was definitely the most enamored with the little bunny.