Floral Dress & Easter Recap

You may remember the green ruffle one-shoulder dress I made for Lilly using Prudent Baby's One-Shoulder Dressy Dress tutorial, no? Using that tute, I made Lilly's Easter dress with this amazing floral print linen I found on sale. Yay for sales on 13$/yd fabric! It turned out incredibly adorable, and I swear everyone should try making this. It only took about an hour and change, and it's great because it can grow with your tot into a tunic and top when it's too short for a dress, not to mention you can make dressy ones, and casual ones, and even BATHING SUIT COVER UP ONES! Which will be happening, don't worry. This pattern/concept is incredibly easy to do, and I'm totally totally making a million more for this summer. Go check out Prudent Baby, they've got oodles of other tutorials and great things to try! Highly recommend! Here's another shot of the dress, while hunting for eggies.

Speaking of Easter... ours was awesome!  Lilly and I made cookies for Andrew, which actually turned out really deliciously - chocolate chip and about 59 cups of marshmallows, courtesy of Lilly's heavy hand. I wanted to use about a half cup, but there ended up being almost a half bag in there. Tis what I get for letting her dump them in, right?  The marshmallow ended up melting into a carmel-like crunch/goo and was fantastic. She loves baking and making glitter decorations.

She also loves dyeing eggs, which actually was a ton of fun, and she didn't like making a big mess.  Win for me!

We also baked sugar cookies with Aunt Shar & all 3 kids, using a bunny and carrot cookie cutter set I found at target.  They turned out delicious as always!

Since Andrew had to work on Easter, we opted to have the Easter Bunny come to our house ahead of schedule. Such nice baskets he left Lilly!

For breakfast, we had Bunny Pancakes, which I made using the same bunny cookie cutter on a pancake, with some strawberries in the ears and powdered sugar sprinkled on top. So cute! And tasty!

Then we hunted for eggs the Easter Bunny hid.

Sunday we had Easter mass at church, followed by the annual Easter Egg hunt in the church yard. So. Much. Fun. The kids all had a great time scooping eggs filled with candies and sugar and things I should not eat, and then enjoyed a little cake and juice afterwards. 

After all the hunting and eating, my mom, Lil & I had an awesome ham dinner complete with a boatload of roasted veggies, bunny biscuits, sweet potatoes, and well, ham. Too bad I got ZERO photos of the meal! I failed yesterday, but here is one of Lilly hanging out in the tulips! 

Check out the original inspiration for this one-shoulder dress!