Happy Easter!

I made that wreath on the door, btw.

We decided to celebrate twice this year, call it a shout out to those of the Eastern Orthodox persuasion, just don't believe that vicious rumor that I didn't finish Jane's Easter paraphernalia in time...

Anywho, last week we did our Bread of Life tradition, which just means we eat a lot of good bread, homemade and otherwise, to remember our Savior and his preeminence in our lives. We also had Easter dinner with a few families here, including my sister.

aren't they two peas in a pod? Gosh I love those two cuties!

And Eric got his wish of an Easter egg hunt. I filled the 80 plastic eggs, he hid 60 of them. Apparently he was being too thorough, i.e. taking too long, so my sister went out there and "helped." The kids had fun, even Jane got into it.

see the little pink egg in her hand? Isn't she excited?

After Eric helped her find a few, she even spotted one on her own, got all excited (which means her wrists and ankles went nuts) and then reached for it. She didn't have a basket, so Eric put them in her dress.See the green egg in her dress? And the orange one that fell out of her dress next to her hand?

Speaking of dresses....nope. I didn't make her an Easter dress. Yes, I'm mourning that fact. I assembled materials (I had this great idea of using only stuff I had), drew up some designs (I couldn't find a pattern I liked that wasn't too expensive), bought the few things I did need (so much for my green intentions)....and then, I don't know. I couldn't commit to a design and then I got sick...I don't know how I'm going to handle more than one child on regular days let alone on holidays. *sigh*
So we went with plan B--I made Jane an Easter Bonnet from a pattern I bought off of Etsy. I didn't have to go anywhere, even. They emailed it to me. So cool! The pattern was OK, I did have to do some tweaking to make it fit my Jane's rather large head. But as I didn't want to repeat the late night sewing experience of Jane's blessing dress, and as it was stake conference on Easter (ironic), we decided to do Easter baskets and clothes with the Eastern Orthodox crowd, meaning Jane got her Easter basket this morning (she "shared" her candy with Eric) and wore her bonnet to church today.

I made that polka dot bunny Eric is holding and that yellow ducky tweets when you squeeze it. Jane figured out that it also tweets when you whack it. She's really great at whacking these days.

I should mention that in addition to making a bonnet, I also made brownies (twice--Eric burned the first batch) for a friend's son's baptism today, I spoke in Sacrament meeting, prepared my sunday school lesson, and prepped for Primary singing time... so it's been a long day.