Easter Pictures!

Ahh the lovely Easter tradition of family pictures. I hated it as a child. You come home from church and all you want to do is change into play clothes and get on with the easter egg hunt and eat yummy bar-b-q. But nooooo, you have to pose by the big oak tree for a million pictures first. Well, as much as I would like to not put my kids through this yearly torture, I totally get why adults insist on it. It's basically the only day of the year when all four of us look our best. Any other Sunday, and I'm at church in my jeans or yoga pants, no make up, and my hair pulled back. And my kids get to wear what they want which means, well, anything goes. And lets face it, if it's not Sunday, or errand day, I'm probably still in my pajamas, or at least one of the kids still is. So Easter... yes, we need to get a family picture to replace last year's pretty pitiful one. (Look to the right at the scowling child and sleeping baby). I was very much anticipating a fabulous pic to update my very outdated sidebar here in my bloggy space. Well, not fabulous but probably an improvement. After several shots, here's the top three. You can help me decide the winner for this year's family photo. 

Ok, not too bad except the kids are clearly not interested and looking down.

Almost perfect, Reuel is adorable. except we have Keziah doing her forced smile. Michael Paul calls this her Elise face because her cousin Elise use to make a similar face when she was this age. It's cute but not really what I was going for here.

And then we have the 'bribe the child with candy' picture because they were so over it by this point. Again, not exactly what I was hoping for.

Oh well. I'll spare you the 20 shots that were just insanely bad.

Michael Paul and I got a decent one together!

OK, enough of the formal shots. We changed into play clothes and got on with the fun. Here are the pics you probably care more about:

Reuel was only 5 weeks old last Easter and slept through most of it. So this was his first real fun Easter. We weren't sure how he would do with the egg hunt. He did not grasp the concept of "mark, set, go!" and took off ahead of his sister.

But he did grasp the concept of hunting eggs pretty well and started putting eggs in his basket.

Of course he found all of three eggs by the time Keziah had found almost all of them.

She was very proud of herself!

time to check out the goods!

true to my food snobbery self, our kids' eggs were stuffed with organic lolly pops, organic fruit snacks and fruit leathers, and coins for their piggy banks. But in the spirit of the 80/20 rule, I did get Keziah one Reese's peanut butter egg! :)

And my favorite picture is Keziah's reaction upon realizing that some of the loot was for Reuel! She started grabbing everything while screaming no. Too funny. Reuel, true to his laid back self, was just happy to be outside.

Happy Easter, everyone!