Easter Photos

Thanks for the Easter Dresses Grandma Peggy. 

The girls enjoyed shopping for their own dresses this year.

Hats and fancy tights really added to the outfits.

Grace wanted sparklely tights, and Anne has the heart legs.

I made James's bowtie. 

 Edwin and Uncle Daniel have ties in the same fabric.

Due to illness and work schedules we haven't been together in for a family photo.

Maybe in May. 

We did manage to color eggs....Edwin's favorite tradition.

 

James and mom made a school bus egg.

Every egg Grace touched this year she dropped and cracked.

Funny thing....Edwin only dropped one egg....the one I dyed!

Anne loved to dye her eggs multi-colored, then she used crayons to cover it up.

Spring has Sprung

The weather warmed up for a weekend.  James decided to use the pile of garden rocks as stepping stones to climb the fence.  Edwin and I decided that we'd better use those rocks in a more productive manner.  We made a sand box! 

Grace is thrilled to build real sand castles.

James ate it of course...

Anne will be barefoot for the next six months.

Edwin will be outside with the kids when he's not at work.

It's going to be a glorious summer!

Flower and Sparkle

WE LOVE TO SEW!

The girls enjoy sleeping with their babies.  Grandma Peggy sent the extra pajama fabric so we made matching nightgowns.  The girls sewed the skirts, side seams, and hemmed the nightgowns.  Anne also sewed the buttons on all by herself.  We had a great time working together.

Grace and Baby Flower

Anne with Baby Sparkle



The Girls' Room

Two years ago the girls didn't have a light in their room until summer ended and it was too dark to read scriptures in bed.  Edwin and I found this pink frilly lamp at a second-hand store in town.  The girls loved it  and the creative decorating scheme began to brew.

I purchased the fabric for the curtains a year ago, but waited until we were a bit more settled before tackling the project. 

The curtains are finished.  The girls found the fancy curtain rods complete with feathers and plastic crystal finials.  Everything a girl could want.

Grace and Anne made the picture frames out of craft sticks and foam stickers.

They love to paint fashion dolls so a few of them made it on the wall.  I made the hair bow boards and sewed the tea party table cloth. 

Grace painted the picture frames above her bed.

Anne painted the picture frames above her bed.

Grandma Peggy sent the giant Idaho poster to remind us where our roots are planted.

I thought we were done decorating for a while, but since General Conference we are adding a temple picture to the room, and we will be rehanging Anne's newly painted frame for her picture of the Savior.

I'd say this has been a productive winter.

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One room decorated in one year.  At this rate we'll move before I get all the rooms decorated.  Oh well, it's the journey that matters....right?

James

"They call me Double Trouble for a reason!"