Easter

I brought Kami with me this year to get some Easter things for the kids, and we had a good time assembling baskets and hiding them around the house. When Shawn and I headed off to bed we found these creations, by Isabelle, sitting on our pillows: (I think the brown one is a bunny:)

I did manage to get a few pictures of the kids, but not until after church and after an egg hunt out in our wilderness. Maddie was already out of her church clothes, Isabelle had had enough of her hair paraphernalia and the boys were well on their way to filthy!

Later in the afternoon we went to Shawn's parents for Easter dinner. Andersons, Suzette, Grovers, us and one of their missionaries from the Oklahoma mission were all there. There were a few different seating places to accommodate so many (about 27 bodies) and I took a couple of pictures before everyone was all settled in:

Around the table, back left to front: Ainsley, Gracie, Belle, Madeline, Abby, Sam, Sander, Nolan, Isaac

After dinner we had a concert and everyone that has been working up a piece, on the piano or violin, for festival, performed their pieces. This is never a big hit with the littlest members of the family, but they sat pretty quietly:
Meanwhile, Abram snuck off to clean up anything still laying out that looked remotely tasty:
And the second that the concert was proclaimed complete all the little boys jumped on Shawn:

Then Suzette started playing the piano and some of the kids gathered around to sing:

l-r: Abby, Ellie, Isabelle, Suzette, Kamille, Madeline

And those are some bits and pieces from our Easter!