a little easter recap...

we celebrated easter in nc with my family.  my sister and chris hosted a wonderful holiday.  we started off with easter breakfast.  the day was then spent playing games.  i'm talking sack races, family hula hoop races, tissue box pulling (from minute to win it), egg on a spoon race.....the works.  jen and chris took much cooler pictures here.  i must warn you- after you see these you'll be begging for an invite :)  

i made this for last easter, jen reused it.

the beautiful table

my girl in her easter dress from daddy.

all of our sweets ready for games!

they LOVE this one.  they can't use their hands but need to get as many jelly beans from the whipped cream pies! 

am's wardrobe change for dinner.  you can't tell in this picture, but my pretty little sister is about to have a baby any day!

getting ready for our sack races....

water balloon toss- ty and uncle chris won! i'm sure ty would like that documented :)

the kids had a dab of vaseline on their noses.  they had to stick cotton balls to their noses w/o using their hands and walk them over to another plate.

we also had an easter egg hunt and grew a lollipop garden.  my camera was dead by that time of course.  the lollipop garden is a precious tradition my sister has created.  she gives the kids handfuls of confetti.  they sprinkle it in her front yard.  each kid waters the "seeds" with their own watering can.  we sing the lollipop song (lollipop, lollipop oh lolli, lolli pop) as we water them.  in the meantime the guys are hiding eggs in the backyard.  we give our crops time to grow as the kids hunt for eggs.  when the hunt is over they get to check on their seeds. where their seeds once were are a garden of lollipops!  it's magic!!  i think that would be perfect for a sweet shoppe themed party.

hope your easter was just as much fun as ours.