Easter 2013!

Over spring break the kids and I went and stayed with Grandma for a week and had a great time! While we were there we dyed Easter eggs. As expected the kids got pretty messy… When the dye wouldn’t come off of Conner’s hands he was so upset that he said “I never want to dye eggs again!” which he immediately took back.

 

 

We also had an egg hunt in the backyard for the four grandkids. Conner sprinted around the backyard while Jayden stopped after his first egg to open it, sit on the grass, and leisurely eat his m&m’s.

Conner has been talking about Easter nonstop for a month and was super excited when the day finally came. On Saturday morning we took the kids to an egg hunt at Lowes. There weren’t too many people there so the kids were able to get a ton of eggs. We got there 15 minutes early and the kids had a hard time waiting because they were so excited. Afterwards Conner didn’t want to leave because he thought there might be some unfound eggs out there and wanted to keep looking. The eggs were even filled with good candy… which I greatly appreciated … :)

The night before Easter the Easter bunny delivered two magic jelly beans with instructions to plant them in a pot of dirt, water them, and wait for morning to see what grows. Conner got really into it and enthusiastically helped me gather dirt, plant the jelly beans, and kept checking the pot to see if it had started growing. In the morning two lollipops magically sprouted from the jelly beans!  I think that this will have to be a new tradition! (Thank you Pinterest!)

 On Easter morning the kids were spoiled by the Easter bunny… they each got a couple of DVD’s and a sports set to share. Conner immediately started gathering eggs and we had to convince him to go check out his easter basket first. While he waited for me to put in my contacts and get the camera he had scooped up a small pile of eggs in his lap. He is so competitive! Haha! But after filling his basket completely to the top he was kind enough to fill Jayden’s basket while Jayden sat and shoveled candy into his mouth…

 Nathan and I made a delicious fried chicken dinner after church and both ate so much that we needed a nap afterwards. Apparently Conner had not been satisfied with the number of egg hunts that he had been able to participate in because he begged us to hide all of the empty eggs all over our backyard… and then he hid them all over the house numerous times for Nathan and I to run around gathering. After he went to sleep the eggs went back to “Easter egg land” aka the tote in the garage labeled “Easter.”