Easter

The kids got to celebrate Easter a few times this month with egg hunts and the Easter bunny coming in Arizona and again at home on the actual day. The Easter bunny was tricky this year and left silly poems about having to find their baskets hidden in the house.




We also had a fun week doing activities all week long learning about the Savior's last week. Hopefully it helped the kids to remember what Easter is really about. Here they are watching "The Testament" with Jim.



We attempted to take some pictures of them in their Sunday clothes but this was as good as we could get and a shot of the girls in their outfits they got from the Easter bunny.

Happy Birthday Jonas!

Little man we love all your crazy antics and glad you keep us on our toes every minute of each day! He loves balls right now so we made him a basketball cake made from cupcakes.

A new kind of Easter egg hunt

All our kids have known up to this point has been great spring weather come Easter time with egg hunts usually taking place in warm weather attire. Well this year was a different story. Our neighbors and myself decided to put on a neighborhood Easter egg hunt this year to get to know more of the kids in the area. We chose to do it two weeks before Easter as Spring Break preceded the week before Easter and many families would be out of town for that. We had planned to do it rain or shine as there really wasn't any other good days to move it to in case of inclement weather. The weather report had shown a chance of snow but with no accumulation.




Well snow it did for three days and it all stuck. There was 6+ inches on the ground and more was falling. We really hadn't planned on the weather being what it was but the kids all enjoyed it nonetheless. They came dressed in their snow clothes, participated in a few activities in the warmth and dry conditions of the garage while waiting for all to arrive, and then it was a mad dash to find the eggs hidden in the adjoining yards.




We did move the 0-2 age group indoors for their initial hunt but the rest were not slowed by the conditions. It made it easy to hide some of the eggs as we'd just drop them in the snow. I'm sure we'll find a few once all the snow melts. We had 40-50 kids show up and I'm sure there would've been more if the weather was better. Maybe it will have to be a new neighborhood tradition.

This is how you get all the marshmallows...

Jonas found that somebody left a box of Lucky Charms out on the table and decided to take advantage of the situation and fix his own breakfast. He did great at pouring it into the bowl but just didn't stop once it was full. I think he thought he hit the jackpot with easy access to so many marshmallows. He was happily picking them out of the mound of cereal when caught.