Easter 2012

Just wanted to show you a picture of each one of my girls. They are growing up so fast. I really can't believe it. I told Mikayla this morning that she looked beautiful, and I told her she must have gorgeous parents ;). Truthfully, they are beautiful girls inside and out.

My friend Michelle, made the skirts that Mikayla, Kylee and Samantha are wearing. I can't thank her enough. My girls love their new church clothes. We took these pictures to send to Kyle on his mission. I'm sure he'll be surprised how much they've changed in the 8 months he's been gone.

Easter

Kylee and Samantha's Color Festival

I decided that Kylee and Samantha would really have enjoyed the color festival. So I saved a few bags of the colored chalk, and let the girls have some fun in the back yard.

They definitely enjoyed being able to throw color on each other in the comfort of our own backyard, and I didn't have to try and keep track of them at the real color festival, it was a win win.

I learned from the Spanish Fork color festival, that the color doesn't wash out as good as they said (I was glad we didn't wear anything we loved). So that's the reason my girls are dressed like homeless children.

Kylee loved getting covered in chalk, and Samantha only ended up crying once. On a different note, Samantha won't take a "Normal" picture these days. She told me she thinks pictures are weird, so she would continue to make funny faces. This one actually scares me a little, I certianly wouldn't mess with her if she was making this face.

Spanish Fork Color Festival

Sadie, Mikayla and I decided to go to the Color Festival in Spanish Fork this year. It was very crowded and very colorful. But we had a great time. We basically ended up having a girls weekend. Bret had taken Kylee and Samantha to Oak City, so he could help his dad with another home improvement project (his dad is the King of home improvement projects). And we spent the early morning in Spanish Fork.
That first picture was only a few minutes after we got to the festival. Apparently everyone loves when you come in "clean", so as we walked into the chaos everyone who walked past us shared some of their colors.

The girls had fun throwing color on strangers and each other. Every 2 hours they have everyone throw color into the air at the same time. It looks really cool for a few seconds, but then all the colors mix and it looks like a brown cloud hovering over everything.

That building behind the girls is the Hari Krishna temple. I think the point of the whole event, is to celebrate Spring, and to remind us that God created everything, and so no matter how different we all are, we are all beautiful...I'm pretty sure most of the people there just wanted to throw their packets of colored chalk on each other. But they had good intentions :)