Easter and Pebbles Inc. Garden Party

Good morning!

I am sorry for the lack of posts here lately. Life has been way too busy.

In good news, we got all of our adoption paperwork submitted and now just have to wait. And wait.

And then wait some more :)

Easter is always a fun time for our family. We always have an egg hunt at the park for the kids on Saturday and then celebrate the religious reason for Easter on Sunday.

I  made this layout using the Garden Party collection from Pebbles Inc. 

I really liked this blue floral paper, the cute cardstock frames and the pink glitter alphas. 

Have a great day!

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Happy Easter

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I hope that it is a blessed day for you and your loved ones.

Last Easter was a bit of a difficult day for me. I had been in the hospital on bedrest because of preeclampsia and was granted a couple of hours to leave the hospital to have Easter dinner with my family. I was tired, I wasn't feeling well, I was emotional and the time with family wasn't as cheerful as I'd hoped it would be. I remember feeling relieved to be back in my hospital bed. Sad, isn't it?

I am so very grateful for the little baby girl that was born soon after Easter last year, for the quiet time that I was allowed in the hospital before the craziness of life with 4 kids would begin, including a newborn who would have to stay in the NICU after she was born.

I am grateful for Jesus Christ and know that because of Him my loved ones will live again, those who have died too early will have life once more.

I am so grateful and so very blessed.

i missed a day and some Easter eggs

I have been trying hard to blog at least a little something everyday. I had kind of a rough time with the kids last night, and the rest of the day was pretty busy so I decided to just forget it and go to bed. And, I was so tired. I didn't even hear Matt come home I was so zonked.

Besides all of the regular house cleaning and regular day to do stuff that happens around here we did have some fun yesterday, dyeing Easter eggs and then eating some of them as well.

Can you tell Aimee was having so much fun watching? Can't you feel the excitement?

Lots of fun swishing the dye around.



The funniest part for me was watching the girls EAT their eggs after the eggs were dry. Sarah picked up a pink one (of course) and stuck it right into her mouth. I guess she didn't realize she had to take the shell off first. Hailey bit into hers and while she was eating I was telling her about how sometimes we make scrambled eggs but that these were hard boiled eggs. She then happily stated, "and they have cheese in them!" Silly girl thought the egg yolk was cheese. Wouldn't that be cool to have cheese already in the egg? I thought that was cute.

I got Sarah to take part of the shell off and she immediately stuck the egg right back in her mouth, hoping, I guess, to get a bite of the yummy egg without having to do all the work.

We are going to save Easter day for all of the religious activities, going to church, talking about the real reason we celebrate Easter (we've been doing that all along to make sure the girls don't think that we do it for the candy or the Easter Bunny).