Easter 2011

Well, I'm getting better at posting sooner.

I'm getting my post done before it's been a full week since the event!  Wow.  Good Job Mom!  I've impressed myself!

It has now become a Johnson family tradition to get our pictures taken on Easter morning...

seperately - to show off our pretty new dresses...

and together, as a sane, happy, loving family!  (no sarcasm there whatsoever!)

As far as previous Easter mornings have gone...   it can be a very stressful, not so happy of a morning!

But...

I am happy to say, this year was different!

Maybe it was because my mom and dad were here...
Or maybe because I have learned that you MUST get up several hours early...
or maybe we are just getting better!

Nonetheless, I was a happy momma that I didn't have to get angry or stressed over Easter Morning!

It kept me in a much better mood for the REAL meaning of Easter and to remember what Christ has done for us!

So... on to the pictures.

The girls love showing off their Easter Sunday dresses!   It's such anticipation to get to wear them...since we usually buy them really early so we get the "best" ones.  I think Ashlyn asked me to wear hers for at least three Sunday mornings prior to Easter.  So, they were DEFINITELY ready to wear them!

And, we did get one (out of 12) decent picture as a family.  It is so hard when you have to get everyone to look at the camera and smile at the same time.

And so, with hair curled, pictures taken and looking "beautiful" as Brooke would say...we made it to church ON TIME for once and with time to spare... and we even went to early church!  (can you tell how surprised I am that Easter morning went so smoothly?)

After church, we all headed to Grandma and Grandpa Johnson's house.  And, after lunch, we finally got around to the all anticipated annual Easter Egg Hunt!

The little kids did very well finding eggs and had a lot of fun.  This year Drake and Addi got to participate as well.

Then...it was the big kids turn...

and they had a big desire to find the "golden egg", which had a $50 dollar bill in it!

But us adults hid it REALLY good...  and it was frustrating...

so we gave them a hint... 

I mean....they were EXTREMELY HOT...

and after a little digging...

Kelsi ended up with the "loot".

After the hunt was all said and done...my nephew Cody decided to have a little fun and play a joke on the adults...

Chris was suspicious, so he wouldn't open the egg...

but, Aunt Mindy wasn't so cautious...



and she was surprised to what she found in the egg....  well, maybe surprised isn't the right word...

YUCK!

But, even with a dead mouse in one egg...we still had a good Easter!