Our Family

Every Easter I'm a little weird with wanting our family to match or coordinate colors.

Plus you have to get a family picture too right? 

Here are the last few years-

{2010}

{2011}

{2012}

I love watching how much the girls change!! It makes me a little sad to see how little they were....it goes so fast!

Easter Weekend

I don't know about you, but we had a great Easter Weekend! Saturday's weather was absolutely gorgeous {probably the hottest so far this year..LOL!} Sunday?? Rain!! Yup Washington at it's finest! I thought I'd share with you some of the highlights of our weekend.

{Easter Morning at church}

Saturday, my mom, sister and I, took the kids to Northwest Trek. The girls {Maci, Makenzie and Haylee}
had a blast. I don't think the baby {Troy} cared one way or another!

{Guess Maci was pretty stoked about getting out of the car!}

{My sister, Haylee, Troy, Maci, Makenzie, and myself}

{Sarah & Troy...look at his blue eyes!!}

{Can you see the animal??}

{Maci and Kenzie getting up close and personal, and no that's not alive!}

{Peek-a-boo}



On Sunday, we went to church and the girls participated in the candy rain

{Holding hands and sharing their candy!}

 Hope you all had a wonderful weekend. Giving a shoutout to Jennifer and her family over at Dear Lillie. Congratulations on baby Lorelei Wren!! She arrived Friday and she is a doll!!! 

My Easter Tabletop

I {finally} took the time to deck out my dining room table!
I am linking this post to:

I started with an idea in my head, and tried attempted to tie it in with my other decor. I have been decorating with strong/darker colors my whole life {{um..I'm only 27!}}. So anyways, I did a little searching through my cupboards and china cabinets and this is the things I came up with. {Also ended up rearranging and decorating the dining room hutch and entire living room}.

I take all my own photos. I know absolutely pretty much next to zero about photography. All I know is some most people probably have a much nicer camera then mine. So I'm apologizing ahead of time for what these looked like. I was pretty excited about how it came out, I hope you can see or get some glimpse of what I see in real life on the computer screen!!

If you are reading this and know something about cameras, maybe you can help me out by letting me know what a decent camera is. I don't have a clue. What I'm using is a Canon something that cost me around 160 buckaroos 3 years ago.



OKAY!!! Back to what this is all about!!

Okay this fabric kinda kicked off the whole thing {not to mention my dining room table and chairs are black}. Along with white tulips. With it being easter and all, I pretty much edited my idea in my brain as I went.

Table Runner was made up of a strip of the lightest burlap I had on hand.

I also had the anthropologie white and black mugs along with the alphabet glass balls and a few other black and whites:

See how I used that B & W toile?? I 'stacked' a strip on top of my ivory/white cloth napkins.

{{Sorry about the white glare...I think I committed a big photography sin with improper lighting.}}

{{you can find this awesome He Has Risen download from Dear Lillie here}}

The newly rearranged china cabinet in the dining room...yes that piece on the second shelf is authentic milk glass!! I LOVE it!

This next photo is a close up of the top of the piano in the living room.

I attempted to do paper mache eggs {in one of the apothecary glass jars} with tissue paper from Walmart...they have some awesome black and white/ivory tissue in the gift wrap aisle for only 1.00!!

I also could resist sneaking these photos in:

Taken today...she was trying to help me rearrange furniture...

I know I posted a similar picture, but I found this one on my camera..the previous was taken with my phone. I love the snuggling pose!

Thank you for letting me post Tricia @ A Rosy Note!!

If you haven't checked her blog out, you should! She has great talent with photography!

I need to take the time to see the tips she posts about taking photos!

I hope you all have a blessed Easter!!