Easter Events

We started our celebration by coloring eggs and decorating sugar cookies at the Gealtas. Thanks Rebecca for all the prepping.

Then we had our annual neighborhood Easter Egg Hunt that I am in charge of. We had about 25 kids from the neighborhood split into three age groups. We filled over 400 eggs for them and had 9 prizes for those who found a penny in their egg. It had rained over night and was still raining at 7am, but by 10am it had stopped and the kids had fun. We had hot chocolate, cookies and doughnuts afterward, to make the event last longer than 10 minutes! It's a great way to meet new neighbors.

Paige hung out in her carseat in the car while the kids hunted!

Afterwards, we went down to Kent Station where Kate got to do another hunt (limit of 5 eggs) and the boys did a scavenger hunt around some of the businesses.

Then we got our picture taken with the Easter Bunny.The kids favorite part was after the event, when a guy found 2 boxes of eggs they hadn't put out for the hunt and he dumped them right in front of about 10 kids and let them go to town. They ended up getting a ton of eggs (with amazingly good chocolate). They were thrilled.

I had a few things for the kids so we had another small hunt at home on Saturday night (after their baths). Because even though Bradley had said it was the best day ever (again), he still said we needed a hunt at home, like we always do.

Kate got princess dress-ups.

The boys got a nerf football/basketball set. Even Bradley thought Kate's new earrings were great.

Sunday we were able to focus on the real meaning of Easter, the Atonement of our Savior, Jesus Christ. It was nice to be able to go to church, have dinner with the Hatchs' and have a spiritual lesson (thanks Emily) the end the evening. A few pictures of us in our new duds (which are actually last years' clearance of course).