Lowcountry Strawberry Festival

We started the day with ballet. The story was A Midsummer's Night Dream. I am not sure how they made it into a children's story, but the girls were sure cute.

Next, we all headed over to the Strawberry Festival at one of the local plantations. They had lots of games, rides and bounce houses.

Celia was too busy taking in all the sights to actually face the camera.After the rides, we headed to the strawberry fields and picked our own strawberries. Celia did a great job of finding ripe and healthy strawberries.

After we filled the bucket, we went and had them weighed-we picked 6 lbs of strawberries. We ate some with our lunch and they were delicious. I might have to find a strawberry pie recipe or something to make sure we use them all before any go bad.

It was a beautiful day and a wonderful family outing.

Easter Day

Emme in her Easter dress.

Celia's Easter dress.

Celia made a butterfly with Ms. Dee Bee.

This is Celia with her good friend Abigale.

The cross at church was covered in flowers from people's home gardens. Celia added an azalea from our yard. After church, we all came home and spent a quiet day as a family. Life is good.

Easter Eve

Since David is already at church when we wake up on Sundays, the Easter bunny came during nap time on Saturday. Celia was so excited.

This is mostly a shot of Celia's new short hair cut.

Emme turned one on Good Friday. With all of the Holy Week activities, we decided not to have a big birthday party, so I made cakes for the Easter Egg hunt at church in honor of Emme's birthday. Don't worry, she had her own, less fancy, cake at home with party hats and noise makers. Unfortunately, our camera was broken, so we had to take pictures with our phones-I'll have to figure out how to get those to the computer to post.

There were Easter Egg hunts for each age group. Celia's group was made up of 2-3 year olds.
The eggs had some candy, but mostly treasurers-like balloons, bubbles and rings.There was even an egg pool for the babies.

The church had a bounce house set up.Ms. Dee Bee had a craft table where Celia made an Easter Egg.

Celia taking a rest and watching all the festivities.

We tried to get a few pictures of the girls in the matching dresses Nana sent them for Easter.

They also had hats, but Emme was not interested in wearing hers. Celia tried to help, but Emme successfully dodged all attempts to get a hat on her head.

Celia played with her new toys from her Easter basket: bubbles

and sidewalk chalk.


David and I are so blessed to have such wonderful daughters. Life is good.