Easter

We had a great Easter! We stayed pretty busy all weekend with cookie and egg decorating, two Easter egg hunts, and most importantly worshiping our Risen King with our church family!

Friday night we had fun decorating cookies together. I got out my cookie decorating kit and my food coloring so we had some beautiful and colorful cookies :)

Saturday we got to work on Easter egg decorating. I haven't decorated eggs in a long time so I forgot what a mess that is. My cuticles and finger nails were a beautiful green color on Easter :) I ended up doing most of the work on that project since Ella lost interest after a few eggs. She did have her cousins all over so I think she was a little distracted. Saturday night we were invited over to Kurt's grandparents house and enjoyed some good food and an Easter egg hunt. Although the sun was out and shining it was still pretty cold! Ella had to borrow a scarf and hat to keep her warm while she was searching for eggs. She looked pretty funny in her big John Deer hat though.

We gave Ella her Easter basket On Sunday morning. She was and still is very excited about all of her candy!

Coming down the stairs to get her basket

After church we laid the kids down for naps and hid eggs in our backyard. When they woke up we gave Micah his basket and then searched for eggs. Ella was very excited to find all the eggs, and with the help of daddy she did! Micah was more excited about just shaking the jelly bean filled eggs.

Here are some pictures of Micah or "baby boy" as Ella calls him.

Angry Micah :)

Lastly, here is Ella showing her decorated princess eggs.

Showing her favorite princess, Ariel

Gatlinburg,Tennessee

Last week we had the privilege of going with a group of friends to stay at a cabin in Gatlinburg. The cabin was AMAZING! It was three stories and had seven bedrooms! Our group consisted of ten adults and ten kids so we had plenty of space for all of us. Ella spent most of her time in the game room playing the Galaga arcade game. Every time I would go downstairs she was sitting in front of it. We were able to see Paul's Aunt and Uncle who live in North Carolina while we were there too which was really fun! We hadn't seen them since I was pregnant with Ella so it was fun for them to meet our kids. We had a wonderful mini vacation! It was beautiful in the smokie mountains. We enjoyed a hike, delicious dinner of fish tacos made by an amazing Chef, saw the Appalachian Trail, and had many good conversations with friends! We made so many wonderful memories and I hope we can do it again!

Ella loved Aunt Nancy! You would never know they just met :)

Micah and Uncle Jason


Second Cousins


Ella and her game

Benjamin- he is 3 weeks younger than Micah, gorgeous baby!

View from our cabin

Creek where we hiked


The AT! it was freezing and windy.

Kym's dream is to hike the AT one day

Jesus Loves Me

Ella Bella Dancerella

Today was the first day of Ella's dance class. She was so excited to go and had so much fun! I wasn't able to be in the dance room during the class but I would see her occasionally run across the room. I think there is a recital at the end I will get to sit through so I'm looking forward to that :)

meeting some new friends!


So excited!


Showing me one of her stretches