Easter Sunday

For Easter this year, although we couldn’t make it to visit family or have family come to visit, we were glad Kelly lives close so we could have family over anyway!  The boys woke up Easter morning and looked in their Easter baskets and found the eggs the Easter bunny had hid in the living room.  We had a delicious breakfast of sticky buns and boiled eggs, and I was even able to take a couple of pictures before our 9 a.m. church.  I knew Shane wouldn’t come home with us after church, and there was no way I could keep the boys clean and in their church clothes for when he would be home, so I was glad we got one in before.

 

James woke up first, and he headed straight to his basket and started eating a piece of candy.  He was also excited to see some squinkies in his basket!

     

James was also excited to find a pair of sunglasses in his Easter bag from my mom.  (The cute bags with their names on them were from my Mom).  He kept putting them on, then putting them up on his head.

The other two boys joined James not too much later, and they were excited to find their candy, squinkies, Finn McMissile submarine cars, and their hexbugs.  You can tell from the picture below that Landon was the last to wake up, as he still looks a little sleepy in this picture! 

The Egg Hunt:

   

         

None of the family pictures turned out too great, but I thought they would be fun to include anyway.  It’s hard to get everyone looking at the same time, especially with the timer!

 

For Easter dinner, we had our friends the Lovelands over.  We had some great food – ham, potatoes, rolls, asparagus, deviled eggs, fruit salad, and some delicious strawberry shortcake for dessert.  The kids had tons of fun playing together, and the weather was so warm we even opened up some of the windows.  It was a great Easter!

Dyeing Easter Eggs

Saturday night, we dyed our Easter eggs.  Kelly came over to join us for the Easter egg hunt and then to color the eggs.  I was glad he was there because he kept on eye one James, who was a little excited about the whole process.  He started out dyeing one egg blue, then the next yellow, then finally green.  He wasn’t too good at using the egg holder to pick up and lower the egg, so he just used his hands.  By the time he was done, he looked like the Hulk with his green, green hands! I put him in the bath with a lot of bubbles, and it came off better than I thought. 

   

   

In the last picture, you can see his green hands, and his mad face because we told him there were no more eggs to dye!

Landon and Davis had a ton of fun too.  Davis especially liked coloring on the eggs with the crayons, and then leaving the egg in the dye for a long time.  Landon liked the white crayon and see how it looked when it came out of the dye.

           

The finished product

Easter Egg Hunt

The last two years, my mother-in-law has sent me the best Easter present ever.  She really sends it for the kids, but it’s a great present for me too.  She sends us a box of pre-filled Easter eggs for our egg hunt.  This year there were 94 eggs, so the boys each got to find over 30 eggs.  We were lucky that all of the rain let up on Friday, so it was relatively dry in the backyard Saturday for a hunt.  The boys had fun searching in the yard for the eggs, and opening them up to find candy and coins.  James was content with just one egg.  The first one he found, he opened it up, saw the chocolate kisses, and sat down to eat it.  It took some prodding from us to keep him hunting!

 

James running around while I hid the eggs, and one egg in the clothesline