Easter

I guess I'm a little out of order now, posting about Abbie's birthday before Easter, there's a first time for everything, right?

Either way, March 31st we celebrated Easter and enjoyed our first time around with two kids. Last Easter I was 4 days away from having Abbie! It's crazy how much has changed since then, our family is so much more fun with Abbie in it :)

On "Easter Eve" we had Jackson's friend David over for a play date, they had fun going on Easter egg hunts together. They would take turn hiding the eggs and the other one would go search. This reminded me of what Paige, Michael and I did when we were younger, "practicing for Easter." Jackson went on a neighborhood egg hunt that morning so he was excited for the bunny to come to his house the next day. We also died eggs with the boys and they had lots of fun!

Jackson would always "guide" David...

Dying Eggs!

 And luckily for Jackson, the Easter Bunny did come to our house! Both kids had lots of fun looking at their baskets! They both got cute swim suits, books, candy, toys and the movie Wreck it Ralph which Jackson now loves!

What, mom? Now we get to look for more eggs??

Can you spy the egg on the baby stroller? It took Jackson a minute...

Abbie was totally with it, pretty pro for her first Easter :)

Jackson spotted this one pretty quick and thought it was so silly that the bunny hopped up there!

Finding more eggs outside!

Jackson loved his new magnifying glass the best!

Letting Abbie try her first Jelly Bean!

Taking a picture with these two was nearly impossible.

They are pretty cute though :)

The day got crazy from there! Tyler had meetings, I put Abbie down for a nap, and (as normal) then had to wake her up to make it to 11 am church on time. We took the pictures right before Abbie's nap and Jackson was more interested in complaining about his new shorts (which he now wears just fine) and throwing the Easter Grass to look at the camera. Then after church we cleaned up our house and got ready to host 3 other families for a big Easter dinner. I got off way easy and just made the potatoes and a fruit salad. The Carters, Mullins, and Beverlys came by with our combined 11 kids 5 and under. It was a little crazy with that many kids, Abbie was the youngest so they were all mobile! But the adults did get to sit around and talk for the majority of the evening which was not expected! But having 19 people in your house can be a little loud. We had the movie "The Testament" playing on tv for the kids and it was fun to see the older ones explaining what they knew about Jesus and his resurrection.

And did we take any pictures of the whole group? Of course not, that would have been too smart!

Just kidding, I just found this one that Tyler took. All the boys (three 5 year olds and Jackson) had fun shooting hoops for an hour or more! The 7 girls had fun playing with the few girl toys we have in the house :)