Establishing Easter

As the first major holiday/milestone/tradition making event of Behr's life, I am all spun up about Easter.  I am searching for traditions to begin with our little family.  I am striving for ways to ensure the true meaning of this seemingly randomly selected Sunday is conveyed to our children son.  Meanwhile, Mark keeps reminding me that we still have plenty of time.  Behr won't remember.  We only have one child.  An egg hunt is futile with a child that does not yet crawl or even grasp at toys.  And yet, I am still wound up.

Clothes:  Until now, I have been convinced that baby boys clothes are cuter than baby girls.  Well, this is not the case when it is IMPOSSIBLE to find an Easter outfit.  There are NO easter clothes in stores for baby boys.  I have however found these adorable darlings for Behr's feet.  He might just wear a diaper and these to church on Easter Sunday.  

from a boutique on zulily

Traditions: How do we marry the traditions that Mark and I each grew up with?  What do we establish for our own family.  How will Behr's first Easter look compared to our second...third...forth child?  How do we keep the focus on church and not the easter bunny?

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Visiting Family: How do we see, celebrate, and spend time with everyone while maintaining our own sanity?  Whenever it comes to deciding what to do, I feel like we are deciding who to disappoint.  I want to throw my hands in the air and tell everyone we aren't visiting...that we are just doing our own thing. 

Holidays growing up for me always meant a house full of people {20-30 people kind of full} with family traveling from all over the US/world to be together.  Holidays for Mark were often him, his brother, and their parents.  How do I balance the feeling that a gathering of just a few of us is still special, when the norm for me has always been a big crowd?  

What do you do?!