Easter Photos

With the Easter holiday rapidly approaching you may want to take a few minutes now to prepare your camera and gather your ideas on what part of the holiday you are going to document.  Many parents will dress their children in special Easter outfits and gather them for a photo shoot or family portrait.  While this is a great idea and an excellent opportunity to capture a family photo, there are a few other events during this holiday that make for awesome photo ops.

1.)    Easter egg decorating.  This is a wonderful photo opportunity for those parents who dye and/or decorate eggs with their kids.  These photos will remind you of that innocent age when your kids expressed their artistic and creative side in a way that only their young minds would allow!  Plus they will bring back great memories when your children are grown with kids of their own.  A tip you may want to keep in mind is that if your egg decorating will be indoors, make sure the area is well lighted and the background is free of clutter so your pictures will be even better.

2.)    Easter egg hunting.  Documenting this event with photos is a great way to remember the excitement of when your children really believed an Easter bunny dropped off all those awesome eggs for them to find.  It also gives you a great opportunity to capture facial expressions of the excitement your kids felt when they found those eggs.   Just remember they will be moving at a faster pace, so you may want to have your camera set on action mode to avoid blurry photos!

3.)    When you sit down and explain the true meaning of Easter with your kids, have someone take a few pictures.  This will remind you of the time you spent with your children when they were young and so eager to learn.  Maybe sit down with your kids in a circle, or in your lap, and when you open the Bible to read the true story of Easter, have your spouse or a friends snap a few pictures.  These pictures may not be something you frame or share with others, but they will always have a special meaning to you and remind you of some of the most innocent times you shared with your little ones.

Below are a few of my daughter's first and second Easters:

This was her first time decorating eggs...she was VERY excited!

Pink, Pink, Pink and MORE PINK!!!!

I recently found out my baby #4 is a girl!  FOUR GIRLS!!!!  What have I gotten myself into?  My husband so desperately wants a baby boy so it was very hard breaking the news to him; especially after he had convinced himself and the family it was a boy.  At the ultrasound appointment, the doctor informed me it is the man that carries the Y chromosome needed to make the boy so the fact I can blame all of this on my husband makes it so much easier.  I told him to get it together, and then come see me about making a boy because I cannot handle another girl.  Even my daughters were disappointed when they learned they were not having a baby brother.  My oldest insist this just means I will have to have another baby so she can have a brother!  I did always dream of having five kids but now that I have three-about to be four-I am not sure if I can handle five.  I guess the positive is that every time we have a baby its a 50/50 chance of being a boy!?!?!