Easter is always such a beautiful time of year. I love all that it represents: life, love, religion, and hope. I also love the traditions that our family has implemented. I love time with family, food, egg hunts, dying eggs (though we actually forgot to dye eggs this year, though we had the stuff and everything...whoops!) and Easter baskets. We celebrate the commercial side of Easter the day before since we want to focus on the Savior and the resurrection Easter day and this has worked well for us.
We celebrated by having Easter baskets Saturday morning with Jennifer, Steve, and kids. Jennifer and I then put together a gourmet menu for our Sunday dinner and did the shopping for that. As soon as we were back, we fed the kids lunch and put them down for naps before everyone else began arriving for our annual Egg hunt. This year we had Grandma Donna and Grandpa Doyle; Mari Ann, Ron, and Hailie; Cortney and kids; and Landon and Hudson come for our hunt. Ever since we were little kids, we have always had an egg hunt with money in our eggs, so of course we carried on that tradition. We also had a lot of candy and wayyyyyyy too many eggs. Oh well- it was great fun for the kids and that is what counts! We have had the hunt at the park around the corner from our house for the last few years and it has worked wonderfully.
After the hunt, the kids spent some serious time playing on the toys at the park while the adults lounged and watched them. It was such a beautiful day. Ron brought kites, so he and Doyle spent some time flying kites. We decided to celebrate Ron and Mari Ann's birthdays that night by going to dinner, which is always fun and chaotic with such a crowd. After dinner, everyone headed to their respective places and Jennifer and I went back to my house to start preparing for our feast.
Jen, Steve, and family came to church with us on Sunday. We did our best to remember our Savior and his resurrection, but we also had a few unfortunate incidents while there, one that involved peeing on the floor of the chapel (I'll let you guess who on that one) and another that involved throwing up in the hall of the church (I won't say who on that one as to save them from embarrassment). All we needed was someone to have a poopy accident somewhere and it would have been great. Haha. We came home and enjoyed our meal before sending Jen and Steve on their way home. All in all, a fabulous Easter weekend.
And now for a million and one pictures:
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Checking out her Easter basket |
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New shorts! Yeah, let's clothe that kid, eh? :) Not sure where his pajamas were at this point, but oh well. |
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Kids all ready for the hunt. Four for nine looking at the camera...hmmm. |
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Checking out the loot! |
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Grandma was really cute to help Jace unload all of his eggs. After they got done, they both may or may not have had chocolate smeared all over their faces from tasting the treats... |
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Way too much candy! |
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zero for three of the kids looking in this one- it's just getting worse! |
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Can you believe that these two are only three months apart? Yeah, there is a bit of a size difference. |
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About the cutest picture ever. Grandma and some (most?) of her great-grandchildren. |
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Another adorable picture. Flor and Grandpa Doyle hanging out on the couch. |
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While the rest of us sat around, we let the 80+ year old catch the kids on the slides. So nice of us, I know. (She really wanted to!) |
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Flying kites- we live in a beautiful world! |
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We had multiple attempts to get a picture of all the kids before church. I have not a one that is a success, but this one is cute, especially Brookie and Hals. |
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Our sweet home teachers brought over each kid an egg with candy and a little homemade basket. Isn't that adorable? |
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Easter feast. Healthy? NO. Delicious? YES. We also had strawberry shortcake for dessert, which is not pictured. |
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Happy Easter from us! |
3 comments:
Love all the pictures!!! Looks like you guys had a lot of fun-as always!! Wish we could have been there!
Darling family! See you know how do Easter!!! If I was only half as good as you!!! My kids don't know any differant so I should be ok, right??? :)
So cute! Happy Easter!
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