Our Easter

This year we did a low key Easter and it was wonderful! The kids had a great time too I think. It started with the courtyard Easter egg hunt. The kids had a blast and found 20 eggs each, all full of candy! It was great! Then, the next Saturday we dyed these lovely Easter eggs. Derek's family never dyed eggs, but my family did, and the kids love it, so it is sticking! Besides, you can't have egg wars with plastic eggs. I have decided that we will do both plastic eggs and dyed eggs in our house! We also decided we are going to try to cut back on candy for the kids. They did get a TON the week before. So, I had saved buckets and eggs from the year before and went to Walmart's Easter section and bought tiny bubbles, stamps, and bouncy balls and stuffed the eggs with those. Then got Kael a puzzle and coloring book for his bucket. Eden got jewelry and a coloring book. It was perfect! The kids absolutely loved the toys the Easter bunny brought! We ended up waiting until after nap time to do our hunt and have the Easter Bunny come because Derek was still super sick and needed to stay home from church for a little extra rest before a big test the next day. So, Sunday I got the kids dressed and we went to church to learn about Jesus! It was fun getting to explain Easter to Kael just a little. I of course was late, and totally spaced out getting Easter morning pictures. They were super cute of course, but nothing special. Kael learned about Jesus in primary and pointed out the many pictures of Jesus. I love that the kids love pointing out who Jesus is in every picture the see. I have big plans for next year to teach a little about the resurrection. Oooh I LOVE Easter. It is one of my favorite holidays and I love sharing it with my kids and cute hubby now!

 I also included some pictures of our craft projects over the last week. We've been having fun with glue and glitter. And my friend Jill brought over these super cute animals that you can put together and the kids loved helping me glue them together and are still playing with them. They really love animals!

Easter Sunday

Easter morning was lovely. The kids woke up at a decent time (7:10), that means 10 whole extra minutes of glorious sleep. They got their buckets and went to work finding eggs. We had to stop half way through finding eggs because the loot the Easter bunny brought was too good to pass up. Kael got some snakes "aka nakes", dinosaurs, book, and stickers. Eden got a necklace, purse, book, bunny, and slinky. I got some super cute pictures of them in their spring church clothes. Poor Kael broke out in a really bad rash all over his face, chest and arms from some sunblock from Friday afternoon, so his face is really red. It was wonderful to go to church and remember the Savior and his sacrifice for us. He died so that we might live. I'm so grateful for this. I'm still thinking of how to incorporate how I want to teach the kids each Easter. I know next year we will find a fun way to do this. I'm so grateful for my family and that we can be together forever. This is such a blessing to have this knowledge and I'm so happy for my beautiful children! Love their beautiful faces so much!

Eggstra Eggstra Hear All About It

We dyed our Easter eggs on Wednesday while Derek was at school. It was raining, and I was feeling couped up, so we had a party. I had the Tinkerbell movie playing while I boiled the eggs and got the dye ready. I thought I would be the only person to enjoy dying the eggs, but Eden and Kael had a blast! Kael put the eggs in the dye and then went and watched his show while they sat for a while, then he came and picked them out to dry. Then, dumped more in the dye. Repeat. He LOVED it. Eden was a little jealous because I wouldn't let her do that part. Then, when they were dry I got out some stickers and let both kids put stickers all over the eggs and box. They had a blast. I had Eden on my lap and she wanted to grab the eggs so bad! She snatched one as I was helping Kael for just a half a second and of course that was the one egg I had crack. This will definately be a yearly tradition until the kids outgrow it. I loved doing this with them and it was fun that Kael was old enough to help too!

How an egg becomes an Easter egg

Kael was being so cheasy. It took about 20 shots of Kael say cheese and look at mom to get one shot. Somedays he is just a nut. He couldn't stop laughing for about 10 minutes!

An Egg Hunt

Our courtyard had an Easter egg hunt. It was fun. It lasted 5 minutes. Eden sat in the stroller because I simply can't chase two kids in opposite directions. Kael loved it. He got all his eggs in about 2 minutes and then had to enjoy some of the loot. We then played outside for 2 hours where the kids faces got red and my arms got pink. The sun felt amazing! I am in love with spring.

We are going to have our egg hunt this next Sunday before church. I believe the Easter bunny will hit our apartment then. We are going to dye eggs on Saturday too because I love deviled eggs. Happy Easter next Sunday to all and to all a good night tonight! :)

Easter Sunday

It is so hard to get Kael to look at the camera now! Very frustrating. Derek is so much better at it than me. He just has so many more interesting things to do than to look at Mom. Kael and the Easter Bunny.

We had to keep asking him to give us eggs for him to look at the camera. It was too funny and he got so frustrated that we wouldn't take the eggs after we asked for them. Half the pictures had a really disgruntled look. What a trooper putting up with us.

Easter was so much fun this year. It lasted a total of 15 minutes, but those 15 minutes were well worth it! We decided to have Kael look for his eggs after his morning nap because that is when he is the happiest. Well he got up and knew exactly what to do! It was awesome! He just started grabbing the eggs. The video shows it all. He was too fun. I can't help but love this kid. He is getting so smart and too big way too fast. We definately enjoyed our Easter and hope you all enjoyed yours. We don't have cable, so we weren't able to watch conference. It was always on during nap time and well lets face it I'm not getting much sleep at night, so I took naps during conference. Derek's and my goal for family home evening is to listen to one session once a week. I'll let you know how it goes. I'm really actually looking forward to listening to conference and I can't wait to get started.

Enjoy the videos.