Easter Festivities

Our Easter weekend was crammed with activities to keep us busy!  We participated in a neighborhood Easter Egg Hunt on Friday, which the kids loved.  Saturday was busy with LOTS of shopping for Easter dresses, Easter treats, and Easter dinner, as well as baseball games, meeting for lunch, yard work, and dying eggs.  

We decided that we needed to use several packages of egg dye this year... look at all those cups!

Matt always comes up with some of the best eggs!

Cooper being cute and enjoying coloring eggs

Sydney checking on her purple egg

All of our eggs!

Sunday morning the kids woke up to find eggs scattered throughout the house.  Sydney was so excited to tell Cooper that the Easter Bunny had come!  They had to look for their baskets, which both of them loved doing.  Cooper kept finding more and more eggs to carry around.  "Egg" and "bunny" have become a permanent part of his vocabulary now!  After Easter baskets and breakfast, Sydney and Cooper watched a church movie about Christ visiting the Americas after His resurrection.  Then we enjoyed a wonderful Easter Sunday at church.  It was nice to have all of the meetings entirely focused on Christ.

"Egg!"

After church, we went over to my family's house for some Easter dinner and another egg hunt.  We had a lot of fun with the egg hunt this year.  Only a few of the eggs had candy in them.  Most of them had pieces of paper inside, with either a prize, a question, or a challenge written on it.  We had fun opening the eggs to find out what we had to do!  Some of the challenges were arm wrestling, hopping on one foot, doing the "skip it" and other things.  Some of the questions were, "what did you learn in church today," "tell us a favorite memory of Tim, " and "if you could go anywhere in the world where would you go," things like that.  Sydney got an egg with a "favorite memory of Tim" and she said "that he thinks of me and that we have friendship bracelets."

Egg hunt participants

One of Cooper's prizes.

The epic arm wrestle!

Singing a song in her new microphone...

Taking a turn on the skip-it

Brett struggled with the skip-it... he was trying out a new way to use it

Bunnies!

We had a lot of fun this year with our Easter activities.  It was nice to be able to enjoy each other's company and have some fun!