4.10.2010

Easter Anyone?

I was looking at my blog and realized I never posted about our Easter.

I have no idea how I could have missed it.

So here you go…

Have I mentioned I am a dork? Well I am. I thought I was being so organized and went to the store and grabbed the basic egg coloring kit and some eggs and knew I was ready for egg coloring on Friday. Well that evening Roo looked at the package and said, “We only get 3 colors?” I looked at the package and realized I got the basic, basic kit. There was no way we were just going to have 3 colors. So Friday I loaded up the kids and headed to of all places…Walmart. Oh how I hate that store. So we ran in and grabbed our basic package of dye ready to color some Easter eggs—all 42 of them. So Friday evening as I am getting the dye ready I found that the second package we got had 9 colors and 3 “bonus” colors. So now we had 5 kids, 15 cups of dye and 42 eggs.

Each of the kids got to pick 3 cups of color to use on their eggs. Of course Ham wanted all the blue ones and LaLa wanted all of the pink ones, but since we had a couple of duplicate colors we were able to divide them.

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Here they are hard at work.

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The results.

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They were pretty quick getting the eggs colored and on to more important things…like the trampoline.

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Poor lonely eggs.

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Kids having fun.

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I had to add this picture of Ham because it made me laugh.

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I have heard of more and more people celebrating the Easter Bunny on the Saturday before Easter so Sunday can be about Christ and the Resurrection. I think that is an amazing idea and we will be adopting that tradition next year.

We didn’t realize how excited the kids were for Easter. They were up at 6:30 on Sunday morning to check out the Easter baskets. It’s not like the baskets are elaborate or anything. Are Peeps really worth waking up that early for?!?

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Here is Roo checking out the baskets.

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Look at the perfect pucker from Ham.

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Roo really had fun with her pinwheel.

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Since it was General Conference weekend we didn’t have to get ready for Church so the kiddos had plenty of time to check out everything in their baskets.

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I love how Roo inventoried her basket.

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Later that day while I was getting dinner ready we took a break for a little earthquake. There was a 7.3 earthquake that struck in Baja Mexico that we felt. It had the water in our pool splashing over the edge. I posted the video on my facebook page.

For dinner we had David’s parents and sister over.

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I said earlier in the week that I wasn’t in the mood for the traditional Easter dinner. Instead we had chicken salad on croissants and different salads, like pasta salad and fruit salads. It was delish.

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Since he had been up so early and no nap Ham didn’t make it very long through dinner before he was asleep.

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But he wasn’t quite ready to give up his fork.

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After dinner we played a few rounds of “Pinchy Feisty Flatty Cutty Cow”. It’s a game that Big Daddy’s family has played for years.

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It was fun introducing a new generation to a family game.

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After everyone had their turn of playing Aunt Sherri had another fun activity for the kiddos. They made this cute dessert.

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There was some pretty intense car building.

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The finished products.

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LaLa went ahead and took care of some of the extra pieces.

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10 comments:

  1. Cute post, looks like you all had a great time.

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  2. What a great Easter you had! I love the dessert, so cute!

    We felt the earthquake pretty good too. I was just so surprised at how long it lasted. It was smooth but seemed to last forever!

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  3. looks like you had a wonderful Easter.

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  4. Your Easter looks way more fun than mine. We didn't even dye eggs, mostly because the boys didn't remember about it so I didn't bring it up. I'm such a bad mom.

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  5. Oh and I like the chicken salad on croissants idea.

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  6. Looks like an awesome time! We did do eggs etc. the weekend before Easter but that was because cousins were in town. I like the idea of hosting festivities a week in advance. I might steal that one too.

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  7. WOW! You felt that too!? That amazes me.

    YOur Easter looks like loads of fun. We used to do Easter on Saturday. We have got out of the habit. :">

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  8. What great Easter activities. I love how they've all got their own little dye cups. Great idea!! I also love how you've got them dying their eggs outside. Perfect!!
    It's amazing how quickly they dye those eggs isn't it?
    I love the idea of the bunny celebration taking place on Saturday, maybe we'll do that next year too.

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