Easter 2012

The Easter Bunny comes to our house on Saturday.  We call it “Easter Saturday”.  He, (she?), hides the kids’ baskets along with dyed and plastic eggs filled with candy.  Abby found her basket under the table, but rather than pull the whole thing out, she started pulling out the goodies!

Big Brother helping her get her basket out.

Adam found his basket in the pantry.

Finding eggs. 
It’s so much fun watching little kids be so excited!

Making sure we got all of them!

The Easter Bunny always bring a new book and a special toy.  This year, Abby got a tea set and Adam got a ‘Cars 2’ game for his Leapster.

Easter Sunday
With having church at 1:00 pm, we had a relaxing Easter morning including a yummy Breakfast Burrito and fruit smoothie breakfast.

I put Abby’s hair in sponge rollers for the first time early in the morning and prayed they would work by church time!

And work they did!  I think next time I’ll use the larger rollers….
Dressed for church in a new dress for Abby and new tie for Adam.  Doesn’t Adam look like a proud missionary in this picture?  And Abby is just cheesy.

After church, we had a big family dinner at my Grandparents’ house and took a few more pictures.  Adam apparently doesn’t know how to smile for the camera.  Abby, on the other hand, poses like she knows what she’s doing!

Abby LOVED being in her pretty dress, curly hair, and flower headband.  She knows she’s pretty and absolutely loves getting even more “prettified”.

My Grandma had a egg hunt in the backyard for the little kids.  Cousins Becca and Michael decided they wanted to ride the electric jeep and car around to find the eggs while my kids ran around like crazy and found almost all of them before the other kids even had a chance.  It helped that they had their Aunts pointing them in the right direction of the eggs!

I had to snap a picture of cute, chunky Harrison, (my one and only direct nephew, whom I adore), with his own found egg.

It was a great Easter this year.  I’m excited to have an almost 1 year old in the mix for next year!

Resurrection Rolls and Dying Eggs

For our Family Home Evening on Easter, we watched the Living Scriptures DVD, “He is Risen”, talked about the real meaning of Easter and made Resurrection Rolls (where you place a cinnamon/sugar coated marshmallow in the middle of a crescent roll to symbolize Christ’s body in the tomb).

Adam opening up his “tomb” to discover that “Christ’s body” was no longer there.
Of course, Mr. Smarty Pants had to point out that the marshmallow just melted.

On Thursday night we dyed our Easter Eggs.  The kids had lots of fun.  Although I’m used to my family doing all kinds of funky things which takes much longer than the 10 minutes we spent dying.  My kids were happy as could be to let one egg be just one color of dye.

Really?  Could he be any cuter?


Always fun….pouring the dye down the sink!
Yay for Easter Eggs!
Adam was the only one to eat one for breakfast….we’re just not hard-boiled egg people I guess.