Easter Dress Shopping 2015

Last year Marissa and I went on an Easter dress shopping trip. It was so much fun we decided to make it a tradition and go again. This year meme came along making it even more exciting.
Now before I sound horrible for just taking one child dress shopping Emily was given a dress for her birthday (also from Meme) that is PERFECT for Easter. So between that and the oodles and gobs of hand me downs buying another seemed silly.
We started with lunch, you can't shop on an empty stomach, right?!


Next was Childrens Place. Childrens Place is usually one of my favorites, but I just wasn't loving the dress choices this year. 
Her favorite here was the top right. We had them hold it just in case, but not being completely sold on anything we headed to JCP.


We knew they had TONS of options there and after some browsing we ended up with 10 dresses to try on!

Emily was pretty convinced that this was the dress her sister needed. 

Let's start off with a few obvious rejects. I love the idea of a long maxi dress for Marissa. Probably because it would hands down be my dress of choice. But for some reason at this age they just didn't work for us.

The only one that really worked was this one, and she just wasn't a fan.

Here were a few others we tried on.

A couple of my favorites.

But ultimately the decision was hers and I knew it was probably going to be PINK!

She chose this dress and honesty when it is on, it is pretty fabulous. The hi-low dress is super cute on her and the back of the dress is pretty great too. Let's just hope it's warm enough to not wear a jacket!

The best part is not only was it her choice, Meme and I loved it the most too.

We picked out some new shoes for both girls, rode the escalator, had an ice cream cone and then we headed home with our loot.

It was pretty much the perfect shopping trip.

Do you have any Easter dress shopping traditions?

Easter dress shopping date

So Friday night Marissa and I finished our dinner and hit the town. We had one thing on our mind, shopping. We were headed to Kohls with a plan, a coupon and some Kohls cash! Our mission was to find an Easter dress we loved as much as one that we had saw online and fell in love with.  We got to the store and immediately started scouring the racks to find dresses that we liked. 

It only took a matter of minutes and we had several to try! So off to the dressing room we went. 

We tried on dress, after dress after dress. Stopping to take a picture of each one. Both of us would say our thoughts about it and we had to give EVERY dress the twirl test. Because what little girl does not love a dress that soars when she spins.
Here is what we found...
This one was okay.

 She LOVED this one, I thought it looked a bit like rainbow sherbet.

 But she was really happy with it.

Pink eyelet, I do love eyelet and this one was simple. But, I thought it may be a bit to simple and a bit to pink to.

This one had a criss-cross back and a hi-lo skirt. It was fun, but not what we were looking for. 

My least favorite of the ones we tried on.

I loved this one. Something very 50's housewife about it. I didn't like that it was a bit on the shorter side of what we are okay with and it didn't seem very "Easter like". It was really cute though.

This one ended up being our favorite. You can see how happy she looks wearing it. A fuschia Lace slip over a black and white design and check this out...

 It is reversible! Whoa!

Plus it rated crazy high on the twirly scale!

After finding this dress we had a tough decision on our hands. 

At the end of trying on and some deliberating we both made the decision together to order the dress that we had seen on the computer, but they didn't have in-store. I guess we are risk takers! 

After we ordered the dress we headed to the jewelry department to look at pretties, then stopped to smell and sample some perfume. 
Then we headed home....
After a quick stop at Sonic for a slushy first!
I love our big girl time. She is such a joy to me and our time together is always so special.

I am so blessed.