Monday, March 24, 2008

Happy Easter

We had a really good Easter weekend. Holidays are just so much more fun with kids. We started off Friday with an Easter egg hunt at Dreamworks and then had lunch with Jon. Emma loved the Easter bunny and wanted to follow him around the whole time. Once we showed her that the eggs had candy in them she forgot about the bunny and got into the egg thing a little, but then it was back to the bunny.
We met the bunny again on Saturday at our city's egg hunt. She was so fascinated with it. She's not smiling in any of the pictures because she was just staring at the bunny the whole time. She did get some candy and was excited about that. After the egg hunt we came home and did some major cleaning. We finally unpacked our LAST box. That is a great feeling. Our basement was really dusty and gross, so Jon got got it swept out really well and it's looking much better. We got a lot of stuff organized and got rid of a bunch of stuff. We were so tired at the end of the day but our house looks and feels so much better.
In between all the work we took Emma to another egg hunt. This one was at K-Mart. It's right up the road and she really needed to get out of the house so we figured you couldn't go to too many egg hunts. We went to the hunt and then Emma took a great nap when we got home.
Sunday was a lot of fun. Church was really good and it was just a beautiful day outside so we were just in a happy mood. Jon's family came for Easter dinner and it was a lot of fun to have them here. We had the traditional ham dinner. I made real mashed potatoes...yummy! and deviled eggs. I also made a carrot cake for dessert and Jon decorated it. It was a good dinner and was so fun to have family here and visit. It was a great day.

Emma found some chocolate but really just wanted to see what the bunny was up to.
We got her a sand pail and shovel as her Easter basket. Both parks we go to have huge sand boxes so now she has something to play with.


I thought this picture was so cute. Emma is on the left.


This was the 3rd hunt so by this time Emma knew there was candy in the eggs. She had to stop and have a snack. (And while I know this isn't the most flattering picture of me, this is me at 32 weeks. I feel huge!)


This was the bunny at Dreamworks. She was so cute with it.


Coloring eggs...we won't be doing this again for a few years. :)

This is Emma's Easter dress. I wish we could have gotten a better picture but she didn't want to take her sweater off.


This is the cake we had for dessert. What talent!

4 comments:

Rachel Holloway said...

HOORAY! I am SO glad someone else got enough egg hunts to cover for our lack of them this year. We didn't have a single one...nope. There was too much snow and Brandon was gone studying. Just didn't happen. So, I am SO glad you enjoyed all of them, bunny and all.

Paul said...

That's really funny about the bunny obsession. We took Benjamin to a little egg hunt that our friends in the ward were having at their house. Easter really is so much more fun with kids!

Anonymous said...

Sounds like a great time with the egg hunts :) We only had two, sort of. Scouts did one on Wednesday evening, and the church did one on Sunday between the first and second service. Madison had a blast and hasn't stopped asking for 'eggs' since! Don't give up on coloring eggs yet! Nobody says that you have to do a kit, next year you could just color with crayons instead :) Less messy until you're ready to re-introduce dying them.

Abby and Greg Christiansen said...

cute cute!!!! I wish we lived closer so we could see you guys more often.