Happy Easter

We started Easter weekend with an Easter egg hunt on Friday. Some of Katie's friends from school were there; she was so excited to be with them outside of school.Katie and Ally

Nicolas, Ally and Katie

Katie and Ally with all their loot
This egg hunt was a little different then we have done before--there wasn't candy in the eggs--there was a number in each egg and to determine a winner they added all the numbers together and the highest number won. It was so funny when it started because Katie started running when all the other kids did--right past all the eggs. With a little encouragement (me pointing) she figured it out and started getting some eggs. As the last of the eggs where picked up a little girl came up with her empty basket looking pretty sad. She had missed the hunt. I asked Katie if she would give the little girl some of her eggs , Katie kindly handed over two of her eggs. I was so proud of her.

To top it off, even with giving away some of her eggs, Katie won the 3 yr old prize for most points! (She tells everyone that she won because she gave a little girl some of her eggs.)


We decided that this year we would have the Easter Bunny come on Sat morning vs Sun morning. I'm not sure if we will keep doing this but we will wanted to separate the celebration of Christ's resurrection from the Easter Bunny.

Saturday morning the kids woke up and started looking for their baskets and the eggs. All the eggs had a jelly bean in them, Addy got so distracted that she couldn't focus on anything but finding her next jelly bean.

Gift highlights: bug books--Thanks Grammy and Grandpa S

Wagon--Thanks Grandma and Grandpa D

After finding everything and eating muffins for breakfast, we headed to the park.

our little climber

Then after nap time, we had another egg hunt outside, this time we didn't put jelly beans in the eggs, but we did put a little surprise in 3 of the eggs.

looking for a jelly bean

Addy didn't want the little surprise (marshmallow chicks) she only wanted more jelly beans. She kept trying to take Marcus' eggs to see if there were any jelly beans in his eggs (she didn't have any eggs bc she got stuck on the first egg she picked up trying to find her candy). Marcus was having none of that.

Sunday morning we woke and had a specail breakfast. And Sarah, Adam, Talia and Will came over for a yummy Easter dinner.

The weekend was even more special because our church had their Semi Annual General Conference which we watched online Sat and Sun; we are so very grateful for Christ and His living prophet.