Egg Hunt and Home Depot

 Before leaving on our trip to Goblin Valley, the boys had the opportunity to go to the Millcreek Park for an Egg Hunt over Easter Weekend.  In the first and second pictures, you can see Brigs (white & blue T-shirt) and Nathan (red sweatshirt) ducking under the barrier and going after the eggs.

 And here is Preston in the white T-shirt and his hat.

 They got quite the hall of eggs, and Preston even got a larger egg that allowed him to win an Easter-themed music box.

From there, we headed to Home Depot where the older boys paired up with a younger boy to work on the Kid's Craft. It was a planter box craft. Will helped Brig's, Tyler helped Preston, Jackson helped Nathan and Gavin worked on his project all by himself. They all turned out cute. The rest of the day was spent cleaning the house, packing and then playing with neighbor friends. 

Easter 2013

On Easter morning, we ate Ebelskivers with homemade strawberry syrup and looked for our hidden baskets. The little kids took about 10 minutes to find theirs. The middle kids took a little longer, with a few hints and poor Will took over an hour! We, I mean, the Easter Bunny sure hid them well this year!!

That is one of our family traditions, is to have the Easter Bunny hide the actual basket for the kids to find.

I took Will's and Jackson's out of their baskets and put all their treats in a bag. It was much easier to hide that way! Jackson's basket was inside the piano.

The baskets were filled with candy, money and more candy!

Church starts at 1pm, so before we left, I made a batch of delicious Easter sugar cookies. The kids loved helping me cut them out and decorate them. Oh yeah, and eat them!
Scott had to leave shortly after to got to work but the boys and I were joined for dinner by the Boyce cousins. It was a real treat to have them spend the evening with us.

The meal was slightly different than I normally make. I wanted to try a bunch of new recipes this year. Thanks Pinterest!
I made crock pot ham with pineapple and brown sugar, twice baked potatoes, pastel colored deviled eggs (I placed the white part of the egg [after it was hard boiled and de-shelled] in a cup with food coloring. They turned out great! Pink, yellow, green and blue eggs!), Bunny rolls (they really looked like rats, but they tasted delicious!), Asian pasta salad with spinach, jello salad and our new favorite drink, limeade with Canada Dry.

 After we ate dinner, we hid a bunch of eggs all over the yard for the boys to find. I was telling Brynnlee, Kelsey and Aleigh that I use to come to Easter dinner when they were my kids age. Now, they're coming to my house. So cool.

I had a wonderful Easter filled with family, food, fun and of course the spirit.

Easter Sunday

 After church on Sunday the boys changed their clothes and hunted to find their baskets. After the boys all found them, we went to the backyard for our annual Easter Egg Hunt Extravaganza. There were tons of eggs hidden in the yard, all over the yard. All with candy, except 3. Two silver eggs and $2.00 and a golden egg had $5.00 inside. I let the little ones out a few minutes ahead of the big boys, but the big boys still found them all!

 All the boys got candy in their baskets with a few eggs that held some change in them. Each of them received a small gift from the bunny. Nathan and Brigham received bubbles and chalk. Gavin and Tyler received a DVD they both wanted. Jackson received this cool hat he;s been asking for. And will wanted new shades (because he's cool like that!)

 This picture of Will gets me, bad. He looks like a teenager! Almost a missionary! Crazy how times flies!

Sweet Nathan wanted nothing to do with the egg hunt. He was too busy eating all his candy out f his basket. And Brigham could care less about the silver and gold eggs, all he wanted was the candy. He found 3x as many eggs as the other boys!
Earlier that morning 5 of the boys sang in church with the other Primary kids. They sang beautifully!  After all the egg hunts we ate ham, twice baked potatoes, veggies, homemade rolls... Delicious!

Easter Egg hunt

 We were invited to attend a neighborhood egg hunt this morning. followed by a pot luck lunch. The hunt was held at the Towers backyard. It's a nice large spacious area, perfect for an Easter egg hunt! There were 20 kids and 12 adults. It was a lot of fun.

 They let out the kids that were under 3 years old first. Naters and Brigs were in that group and were so excited to collect eggs and place them in their bags.

 Two minutes later ages 4-6 were let out. Gavin ran full steam ahead and found some "lucky" eggs.

 By the time the bog boys made it out Nathan had already found his 10, was sitting at the kids table eating his candy. So dang cute!

 There were 2 huge eggs found and Will found one of them. He was thrilled!

The eggs had candy, silly bands, poppers and other small toys. They kids LOVED it! And it was fun to watch! We then all ate a yummy lunch together!

Easter Eggs

Happy Easter to all! I know it was a few weeks ago...but I'm behind! So here it goes. It was a great weekend! We dyed eggs, which is always a blast with so many kids. We colored some with a white crayon to make hidden messages....added stickers to others...put rubber bands around some to make a tye dyed look...And some eggs never even saw the water (they were eaten!)

On Easter morning the Easter Bunny usually hides each basket somewhere in the house. The younger boys usually find their baskets first, because they're not hidden too hard. Well, this year was a little tricky because I had most of the hose packed in boxes. The Easter bunny was very clever and hid ALL the baskets under an empty box. It too the children forever to find them. We were laughing the whole time. We even gave them several hints to the special location...

All the boys also received bats, mitts, gloves and baseballs. It was awesome!

HAPPY EASTER TO ALL!!

Fabric Easter Egg

I was busy crafting last night while the movie 2012 was on in the back ground. (LAME movie!) I came across this cute idea for a fabric egg from Make it Love it.
Isn't this cute? Super, super easy and I didn't buy a single thing! I had it all in my craft closet! I can take the picture out and change it to another one to fit the next holiday! How fun!

What do you think?