a lovely living

It has become our tradition to head to Penn State’s Arboretum after church on Easter to take family pictures. As much as my personality would like this to be an orderly process, I’ve come to understand that it goes much more smoothly when we go with the flow….the flow of the kids, that is!  We enjoyed a beautiful day this Easter, full of sunshine and squinting! The girls wore their matching dresses (my oldest, Madelyn, loves twinning with her little sis) from Old Navy and my son (as he typically does) chose to wear a bow-tie over a tie. His Headmaster at school is always sporting one and I’m pretty sure he’s had some influence over my little guy ;) My dress sold out at LOFT (I’m sorry!) but since Easter is over you don’t really need it now anyway, right? ;) And I recently grabbed these sandals (that resemble this Free People pair and this Jeffrey Campbell pair) for $25! You may want to scout out your local TJMaxx ASAP to see if you can grab a pair too. And in the meantime I’ll try to track down something similar that I can link to in future posts.

What follows is a lot of real life, a bunch of half smiles and loads of cuteness ;) You’ve been warned…

Girl’s dresses via Old Navy / Madelyn’s shoes via Target / Audrey’s shoes via Target / Jack’s shorts via Target / Jack’s Native shoes (love these for summer)