So this Easter outfit reminded me of another great Easter outfit...

This great Easter egg hunt outfit worn by Ava:

Reminded me for some reason of another great Easter egg hunt outfit worn by her big sister Katrena at the age of 4.

Easter April 8, 2012

Easter was just plain fabulous all the way around this year, I don't think I've ever enjoyed the day and time with my little family more. Every thing just made me happy!

We started off the festivities with pizza and egg coloring on saturday night.
On Sunday morning I was awoken by a complete scream of delight as Ava realized it was Easter! I thought for sure she had already broken the rules and had gone to the kitchen table, but she had not she just remembered and screamed and shouted "Its Easter!" She then asked me where the bunny poop was and I had to explain that the house didn't get vacuumed yesterday and the Easter Bunny thought it was probably best not to leave any jelly bean poop around this year. Ava then quickly ran to wake her sister so that we could go see their Easter baskets. I made a mistake and used the camera instead of the video camera and I should have recorded it because Ava's comments were hilarious the whole day!

Here is their loot


Ava screamed and got excited over everything and I loved it, the hits were the spinbrush toothbrush and rainboots and gum! With everything she picked up she'd scream shout what it was and then say "I noticed it, I noticed it!" Trena was excited but slightly sad that hers wasn't funner. Although they cost about the same and its hard as your kids grow up. She was very excited about the 10th book in her favorite series though.


Gum, who knew right?
Next while we waited for our yummy baked french toast with apples and cranberries to finish bake the girls and I watched some beautiful videos put out by our church, The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints on YouTube about Easter. I explained the videos to the girls as it went along and answered any questions and Ava had a lot. I loved how when we got to church Ava was as excited to tell her teacher about the videos of Christ we watched as she was about the goodies in her basket. After we got home from church Ava had a few questions for Trena about death while they were playing outside and she didn't like her sisters answers because she came inside crying that she didn't want to die and didn't want her family to die. She kept this up off and on the rest of the night. She would just out of the blue say she didn't want to die or she didn't want me to die. Its hard to reassure your 3 year old you are not going to die when we have no idea when we will die.

After breakfast and videos we all got ready for church and I have to say I am just giddy over how cute my girls looked! There were so beautiful and radiant and I just love how these photos turned out!

I had to leave this cheesey one of Ava in and I love that I forgot to cut her tag in the first few photos.



And together! The first shot was a total keeper, that never happens!
My beautiful grown up Katrena



Then we were off to Church and my friends baby was blessed on this beautiful Easter Sunday. When we got home we all grabbed something to hold us over until our yummy Easter dinner of ham, funeral potatoes, broccoli salad, and carrots was done. While everything was finishing up cooking we headed outside for a backyard Easter egg hunt. Dad is very good at hiding those eggs, this year they had 32 to find.

The polk a dot wonder woman


Every time Ava would find an egg she'd wave it in the air and yell "Yeah," and then she'd say "I found a ______ one, yeah, a _______ one, yeah" inserting the color of the egg found. It was slightly snotty but super funny.





The great count showed 17 for Trena and 15 for Ava!
of course they then made dad hide them all again and the next time they tied with 16.

An Easter picture with my girls

When we got back inside Ava was very disappointed that I had not done my messages in the eggs asking them questions about Easter and having them do different things like sing their favorite primary song and then telling them to go look somewhere for something special from mom and dad. Mom was just a little bit of a slacker this year and we'll blame it on pregnancy. I felt really bad though because she remembered. So I took 3 eggs out and put places for them to go look and there was a prize for each of them and one for them together. I then hid the three eggs in the family room and had them go find it. They both got a soccer ball and a net to share.


They also had received cards in the mail from Grammy Ann and my mom as well as a package from Brent's mom so they opened those up and got those prizes as well. I think that all in all they had a pretty awesome Easter!

We're home and its Easter (4/4/10)

So we arrived back to California on Easter Sunday, we had spent the night before in Primm so we were only 2 hours away.

We were lucky enough to have Grandma and Grandpa North drive back with us, we stopped in Fillmore for a snack and St George for dinner, were we were able to catch up with Brent's brother Gary, his wife and kids who were there for the weekend and then off to Primm for the evening.

When we got home we were so happy to see Daddy and watch some conference, we also saw what the Easter Bunny had brought, had an Easter egg hunt oh yeah and we had an earthquake too.

All in all a pretty successful Easter.

Ava with her Easter goodies, she got some candy, a book, a picture for her room and a fisher price little people doll, and a new flower for her hair.




And Trena with hers a picture for her wall, an ariel polly pocket type doll, magnets, and a shade shirt.

Don't they make cute bunnies

Ava hunting for eggs

Ava making sure her candy was still there

Trena searching for eggs, this is the last one that she couldn't find it was in the foot pedal.


These are the girls Easter dresses, the picture was taken the Sunday after Easter on our way to church. The photos not great, we were running late and what can I say we live in one of the windiest places on earth!

Easter 4/12/09

We had a rushed Easter morning, we all slept until 8. So we quickly looked at our Easter baskets and got ready. Ava had a rough night and was up for about 3 hours in the middle of the night, luckily after the first hour Brent took over and I went back to sleep. After church we arrived home to the ducks outside our apartment, we didn't take any photos but Brent ran upstairs and found some old bread and we took a moment to feed the ducks. After this we walked over by the club house and took a ton of Easter photos (post to follow).

Here are some Easter morning photos:

Easter baskets: Trena, Karey, and Ava. Brent's is the boring one in front.

Katrena with her Easter goodies

Ava with her Easter goodies

Girls and aunt Karey.

Trying to convince Dad to get up and get ready for church

No Photos but we had a yummy but simple Easter dinner. With there only being the four of us and Trena doesn't eat much I didn't want to over do it and eat leftovers for a week. As it was we had left overs 3 nights. We had a Ham that I cooked in the crock pot with pineapple and apricot preserves, and a little brown sugar. It turned out pretty good and was pretty healthy. We also had funeral potatoes, they just go with ham to me; however I did make them with fat free cheese and fat free sour cream to make them slightly healthier and you couldn't taste a difference. For our vegetable we had broccoli and cauliflower, and for dessert chocolate pie in a grahm cracker crust (also made low fat). I think we did okay for our first Holiday dinner with out going to our parents or grandparents house.

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That night after dinner we had an Easter Egg Hunt, Brent went over to the college and hid the eggs around campus. The girls, including Karey, then hunted for eggs. We had a lot of fun, and I loved that Brent took the time to make it fun. The first egg we couldn't find forever, he hid it on top of the covered parking at the apartments. Trena got it down by climbing on Karey's shoulders. The other eggs were hidden in the pavilion, by one of the classroom buildings, in front of the library, and by the water out front.

Here are some photos from the Easter egg hunt:

Ava found the first egg of the hunt


Katrena finding an egg

Karey and Trena racing to find an egg, Karey obviously won

Sadly, I didn't get Trena on Karey's shoulders, but she obviously needed help reaching the egg up there.

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Katrena got a bird house in her Easter basket (or by it). Her and Karey painted it white and put pok-a-dots on half of the roof, then Trena took over painting the rest. Brent says it will attract hippie birds.

Here are some bird house photos:

Painting the bird house white

Love the intense concentration here

The finished project side view

We kind of spaced decorating Easter eggs, even though I had bought everything to do it. Oh well, next year maybe my brain will be a little more intact.

We had a wonderful Easter holiday together as a family and again we were so glad aunt Karey was here to share it with us. We are already looking forward to next years fun!

I just had to end on this note. My daughter is one unique creature, it is Easter sunday, she is wearing Halloween socks and she watched a Christmas movie today. Gotta love her!!!