Easter Celebrations

This year Easter coincided with our Spring Break and so we were able to have a few different Easter activity.  We got together with some friends at the church for a spring/Easter on Thursday and had a good time.  The kids made pinwheels, decorated eggs, made candy necklaces, made their own pizzas, went on an Easter Bunny Hop (cake walk), some of the girls made flowers for their hair and we ended it all with an Easter Egg hunt and snow cones.  I wish I had more pictures of the day but it is always hard to get out the big camera and still chase kids and the little camera is so slow.  I guys this means I need a new small camera for activities like this. 

Waiting for snow cones.

It is so hard to wait.

Lucas's close-up.

I had a picture of Chloe with her cute hair flower but it won't upload correctly.  Technology is not my friend.

Saturday we went out looking for Easter clothes but we couldn't find any.  Apparently waiting till the last minute was not a good plan.  Later that night we dyed eggs and ate treats, thank you Grandma.  Guss and Owen were really slow in joining in because they decided to take a really long time to clean up their toys but they joined in at the end.

We had to keep things out of Lucas's reach.

Mr. Mischevious

Eating his Bunny Money from Grandma.

Sunday morning the boys woke up early to see what the Easter Bunny hide around the house.  We made them shower and get dressed while they waited for the two little ones who were still asleep.  After Chloe and Lucas woke up everyone got to go and find their baskets and the eggs that were hidden all over the house.

Lucas was off to a quick start

but that was only because we let him downstairs first.

Ready to roll.

No pillow is going to keep Guss from a piece of candy.

I am not sure what this face means.

Caught in the act.

Owen with his pile of eggs.

Success!!!

Lucas only needed a little help from Mom to find his basket.

The spoils of the hunt.

The kids got Hex Bugs in their baskets and they played with them most of the day.

Our little bucket head.

We enjoyed a good Easter dinner with friends and then finished out the night by reading the end of the Easter story.  The Friend magazine had scriptures from the life of Christ for the 8 days leading up to the ressurection and we had been reading them each night through out the week.  It was a really nice way to present the reason for Easter to kids.  We had a really good week celebrating Easter and I am really grateful for all that Jesus Christ did for us.