Easter Traditions

One of the greatest things about having your own family is being able to start your own traditions and to carry on other family traditions. Ever since I was little, I remember my Mom sewing our easter dresses. One year she even did sunflower dresses for my sister and I. We had the same pattern, just different colors. Sometimes we even had an easter hat to go with it. As we got older, we could pick out our easter outfit. This is one tradition that I have carried on with Bella.
Dan was so funny and played along great. I woke up and put the basket in Bella's room...then I asked Dan if he saw something white and fluffy just run outside. Bella got all excited started running around the house to find her easter basket. She LOVES the Easter Bunny for all of the stuff that she got.

EAster Egg Hunting




AFter church...


The other tradition that we have was started by my Grandma Kohntopp. We would come and stay Easter Weekend...the easter bunny would follow...plastic eggs filled with change and candy...and our favorite part.....the KITES! She always got us a kite and true to Idaho weather, it was always windy enough to fly them. Usually we got them stuck in the tree about 10 minutes in, but we still looked forward to it.
Here is Bella trying to get her kite up in the air. She finally just started chasing the dog Harley...

Easter Eggs

So I had been promising Bella that when Dan's parents came into town, that we would finally dye easter eggs. She had the best time. I got the easiest kit ever! It is a tie dye kit that comes with little pouches of dye and little plastic bags. You put a few drops of the colors you want into the bag, add the egg, swirl it around, and put it on the rack to dry. All of the mess was so easy to clean up and best of all....the dye got only on the eggs and not on our clothes or hands. Good Job Bella!

I couldn't resist taking this picture of her model pose...GAP...here we come.

Sweet Bella

Mommy always there to help

Pretty good...don't you think?