Easter

We colored eggs last Saturday. I made the Easter dye from normal food coloring for the first time. It turned out pretty well, but seemed a little harder to get off their hands than normal. But maybe they just just got messier this year.

Jackson excited to color eggs.

Jordan

Kenzie and Doug

Kenzie drawing on an egg. She didn't color too much on it. She just kept trying to eat the crayons.

Jackson, Jordan, and Doug with the eggs they wrote their names on.

Jordan coloring an egg. He loved doing it. And didn't get as messy as I expected him to. He had the cleanest hands of the 3. He liked using the spoon instead of his hands.

Jackson coloring an egg.

Kenzie coloring an egg. She loved doing it. I thought she would make a bigger mess, but other than her hands, she didn't make much of a mess. She put the eggs in carefully and didn't splash at all.

More Kenzie

Isn't she cute?

Finally looking at the camera.

Cute Jordan.

Jack showing off an egg.

More of Mackenzie.

Kenzie's dirty hands.

Doug with his Mexico egg.

Jack's dirty hands. I was worried they would be stained for a couple days, but after soaking them in the bath for awhile they came pretty clean.

The finished eggs. They turned out to have too soft of shells and cracked pretty easily.

Every time I sit on one a stool I have at least one kid that wants to sit on my lap. I decided to be nice Saturday and let 2 sit on my lap. Aren't they cute? I love how Kenzie is hugging Jordan.

Cute kids again.

That evening we met up with my sisters at Ashlee's house and cooked desserts for Sunday's Easter dinner. Since it was the first good weather day we've had this spring the kids played at the park and in the backyard most of the time. My boys were so excited to finally be able to wear shorts. They've been disappointed that they can't continue to wear them outside of the house because it's been cold since that one day of warmth. We can't wait for spring to really come, if it ever does...

On Sunday morning the kids looked for eggs and their Easter baskets. Since we have 9:00 church we made them get dressed before the hunt so that we wouldn't be late for church.

Jack

Kenzie loved finding the eggs.

Jordan with his basket.

Kenzie

Jack and his basket.

Kenzie with some of her candy. She didn't care too much about her basket. At first she kept pulling out the egg candy and saying "egg" since she knew that's what they were looking for. Then she found the other candy and kept pulling it out saying "candy." She loves candy.

That afternoon we went to my parents' house for dinner and a big egg hunt outside. Besides us, there were my parents, both sisters and their families, and 4 families from my parents' ward there. My dad hid a little less than 300 eggs filled with money for the kids to find. And for the first time we found them all pretty quickly. The kids had a blast finding them.

Jordan

Kenzie looking for an egg.

She found one!

Jack

Kenzie loved carrying around her bag and walking around looking for eggs. She didn't really care that she didn't find too many. She was mostly happy to be outside I think.

We really had a great Easter. We are so grateful for the reason we celebrate Easter. This year I was feeling even more grateful for the resurrection of Christ. My sister's baby passed away when she was 35 weeks pregnant, back in March, and all throughout the day I kept thinking of him and how grateful I am that Christ died and was resurrected for all of us, including my nephew. I am so thankful we can all be resurrected and be together again with our families forever.