Happy Easter!

We kicked off Holy Week by making cards for Claire's great-grandparents. Her foot is supposed to be a chick? Not my finest work, but I'll take it.

On Good Friday, we started our confetti eggs. They are such a fun tradition! We like dyeing eggs and smashing things on each others' heads, but we don't like hard-boiled eggs that much. So it's a win-win. 

We had scrambled eggs for dinner {an appropriately boring meal} and also made two quiches to stick in the freezer. During Claire's nap on Saturday, we dyed the eggs and stuffed them with Fruity Pebbles confetti.



We normally wake her up between 4:00 and 4:30 so she'll go down at night easily, but decided to see how long she'd sleep and maybe consider going to the 8:00 pm Vigil. We finally woke her up at 6:15 so we could eat a quick dinner and get ready to go!

Before we dashed off to Mass, I asked Adam to snap some pictures so I could copy my sister and join the funniest blogger, Grace of Camp Patton. 

Our little Easter girl. Entire outfit from Carter's and cute flower hair clip courtesy of Natasha's crafty skills. 

And because I'm sure you care about my way less cute outfit.

Dress: Shade
Trusty Gray Sweater: Target
Flats: Anthropologie Clearance Rack
Yellow Flower Belt That You Can't Even See: Loft Via My More Fashionable Sister

 

Proof that we all survived the three-hour long service. Well, actually one of Claire's shoes was lost in the dark and didn't quite make it. Seriously, though. Was the Vigil worth it? Most definitely. It's the most beautiful Mass of the year. Plus, we got to satisfy our ice cream and bacon cravings twelve hours earlier. Would we do it again? Um, maybe when our youngest is in elementary school. It really sinks in just how many readings there are when you're pacing around the narthex in the dark with a whiny twenty-two pound baby strapped to you.



 For real, though, it was way better than Easter last year, when we spent the whole Mass freaking out every time someone sneezed or coughed in the general vicinity of our six-pound preemie.



I can't believe she was ever that tiny! But, I'll pull it together and fill you in on the rest of our Easter weekend.



Easter baskets filled with too much chocolate for the parentals. Claire found bunny ears, a board book, some play food, and fruit snacks that she refuses to eat for some reason in hers. Weird.



We had the most beautiful weather all throughout Holy Week and on Easter it was actually almost seventy! We celebrated with a picnic lunch. I can't get over this view of the mountains from our picnic spot.

During Claire's nap we hid {in plain sight} some {empty} plastic eggs for her to find. She's still working on it a day later...





 We had our friends, Libby and Jon, over for Easter dinner and confetti egg smashing. I put out our two pieces of Easter decor in honor of the occasion - a Rifle Paper Co. garland and a table runner from Goodwill.

We supplied the roast chicken and key lime pie and they supplied the yummy sides of hash brown casserole and bacon-wrapped green beans. We take feasting seriously around here. When they also proclaimed their devotion to key lime pie, I knew we were meant to be friends.

Today Claire and I hit up World Market, Pier One and Target in hopes of rectifying our sad lack of Easter decor. Apparently we are not smart sale shoppers, because we only came home with a broken {but cute and hopefully easily fixed} wreath.