Easter

HAPPY EASTER!

This year the Gifford family participated in the "Forget the Frock, Feed an Orphan" challenge.  The challenge was to, instead of spending a bunch of money on your Easter frocks, use that money for something that matters!  So we didn't have fancy Easter duds, just our Feed the Orphan T-shirts.  As usual (for us), we had a bit of trouble getting all almost-seven of us to look at the camera and smile at the same time (with their eyes open and their hair not in their eyes). 

We started out the morning with our Easter baskets.  Kellen's:

 Wyatt's:

 

Elliott's:

And Cade's:

I think Cade was excited about his train.  ;-)

After we dug into our baskets, we enjoyed an awesome service at Park West Cultivate - where we were encouraged to "Break Out" from the chains that bind us.  We followed that up with our annual Easter egg hunt at Sean's parents' house.  As usual, it was serious business for the big boys.

 Elliott, a.k.a. Hollywood, preferred to take things a little more slowly. 

Once she got too many eggs, she convinced her brother to schlep her basket for her.

 

Cade figured out right away the object of the game - he loved picking up the eggs and putting them in his basket!

The kids all had a great time playing with their cousins.

Sweet lovin' cousins:

 

 I have to mention a few things about our Tshirts.  I wanted matching ones for all of us, but to get a style to fit all of our various sizes was tough.  So I ordered Elliott and Cade the smallest shirts I could get which would match ours, but they were still too big.

 

 

I was REALLY nervous about this, but I took a pair of scissors to their shirts, and cut them completely apart!  I gathered up Elliott's sleeves to make them look more girly, cut down the sides, and shortened it.  Here's her finished shirt laying on top of Cade's XS (obviously before I took his apart).  Big difference!

Cade's took even more work.  The neckline was WAY too big on him, so I had to cut off the ribbing band that goes around the neck.  

I cut a smaller neck hole and made one shoulder seam, and then left the other shoulder separated so that I could attach snaps for opening and closing the neck hole. 

Then I reattached the ribbing band, attached some snaps,  cut the sleeves, sides, and bottom hem way down, and put the whole thing back together.  They fit so much better after we were done!

I hope that you had an amazing day celebrating our Risen Saviour with your family, too!