Easter!

Our Easter celebration started when we were in Idaho Falls the weekend before Easter. We dyed Easter eggs… we bought a “monster egg” kit so the kids got to put eyes, mouths, and hair on their eggs.
We had an Easter egg hunt outside for the kids and they thought that it was great! The night before Easter Conner left out some carrots and water for the Easter bunny. He was so thoughtful… he even asked “Does the Easter bunny like ice?” He helped me fill their baskets up with Easter grass and left them out for the Easter bunny to fill. He was incredibly excited for morning to come. When Nathan was putting him to bed he said “I’ll lay here until the Easter bunny comes and then I ‘ll come down and see what he brought me!” The next morning when Conner came and got us out of bed he already had a small pile of candy gathered and he kept yelling “The Easter bunny left me eggs and fruit!” I was confused until he pointed out the carrot shaped “eggs” that we filled. It took Conner forever to find all of the eggs because after finding each one he had to open it, sort the jelly beans from the wrapped candy, and have a sample.

Jayden was happy just sucking on random eggs and eating the treats from his eggs. We filled all of his eggs with different kinds of crackers...although he did get a jelly bean or two… which produced lots of colored drool…

The kids got spoiled with lots of books… Jayden’s musical book was a big hit with both kids!

It was great being able to go to church afterwards to be reminded of the true meaning of Easter. Although it was harder getting Conner to sit still because he was all hopped up on sugar! After church our friends had us over for a fancy Easter dinner… it was a great day!