Dyeing Easter Eggs

Saturday night before Easter, after returning from our marathon day of running, Deseret book, t-ball, the tulip festival, and even shopping at the Woodburn outlets, we knew we still needed to dye the eggs!  We got home late and ate dinner (thanks Jake!), so it was about 9:30 p.m. by the time we started the eggs.  We put the two little ones to bed, but the other three stayed up and dyed some eggs.  Stacey had directions for egg dye using food coloring, so we tried that out instead of a store- bought package and it seemed to work good.  The kids had so much fun, and the adults had fun doing one or two themselves too.

       

Shane’s ninja egg and Jake’s tennis ball egg

   

Landon’s egg with a drawing of him on it, Davis’s "scribbled” egg, and Kallie’s name egg

   

My striped egg and Kallie coloring an orange egg

 

The finished product

And one video of everyone dyeing eggs:

Dyeing Easter Eggs

Easter Weekend–Tulip Festival

For Easter weekend, Jacob and Stacey drove up to visit.  It was a short trip since they arrived late Friday night and left Sunday evening, so we tried to cram in a lot of activities!  First thing Saturday, Stacey agreed to go running with me for my training, then Jake and Shane went to buy Jake a new road bike while Stacey and I braved Deseret Book with all five kids to buy a few Easter items, after which we headed straight over to Landon’s t-ball game.  It was a fun but busy morning!

After we finished up at Landon’s t-ball game, we headed down to the tulip festival in Woodburn.  Jake and Stacey had heard how we had gone a few weeks ago, and they wanted to see it too.  It was super busy this time since it was on a Saturday and BEAUTIFUL weather. 

We started out by walking through the tulips.  The cousins were all enjoying being together running up and down the rows, smelling the flowers, and of course posing for hundreds of pictures.  They of course got lots of comments from the passers-by.  (Thank you Stacey for all the great pictures that you took!)

Kallie and Davis running down the row together

   

More of the two buddies

   

Ethan was excited to be able to get down and walk.  He’s a cutie!

     

A family shot – not sure what Davis is doing, but this was the best we got. 

       

These two are definite buddies!

 

The cute Morris family, and a nice close-up by Stacey of the tulips

 

All of us walking together, and Davis being his usual silly self

 

The kiddos holding up their pine cones, and me with my boys

 

Landon with his Cubs t-ball costume one, and Davis and Ethan looking at something

After a nice walk through the tulips, we headed over to the kid area, where the boys got to enjoy the big slide, the duck racing, the yellow shoes, and the photo spots once again.

        

I love how Kallie and Davis are looking at each other in this first one! 

                

Ethan and James as the little bears, and Shane carrying the two boys on his back on the way to the car.