Easter Fun

Wow, we sure packed a lot into Easter weekend! There was all kinds of fun to be had. We started things off Saturday morning with a wet, rainy egg hunt down at the park. Unfortunately, our kids were in three different age groups and there were only two of us so Tucker missed out on his first chance to get in on the action. Jeff and Duncan were over on the other side without the camera, so no shots of him, but here's Dayton primed and ready.

I tried to get Tucker to go and snag a few, but he wasn't having any part of the craziness.

Next up: egg dyeing. Tucker was napping for most of this part, thank goodness. Almost two-year-olds and egg dye are not the best combination. We were staying at my mom's house while she was up in Boise finishing up tax season, and she has these awesome smocks for the grandkids to use while doing messy art projects. They were perfect!

Tucker eventually woke up and wanted to do it too, of course. He was extremely cranky...I don't know if you can see the tears on his cheeks, but he wanted to do everything and didn't want help. Yeah, right.

Then came making Easter cookies. The kids love making sugar cookies with this giant set of cookie cutters I have. Tucker thought this part was great. Although he kept messing up the shapes the boys were making so eventually I just gave him his own little section of dough and he went to town.

That did it for Saturday...we put the kids in bed early in hopes of not having any grouchies the next day. We have early church on Sunday so we told the kids that the Easter Bunny would be bringing their baskets while we were at church instead of overnight. After church I made them wait just a few more minutes so take a family pic. I know, I'm mean!

Don't they look so handsome?!

Finally, after they had gone through their baskets and changed clothes they had their egg hunt in my mom's backyard. Tucker caught on pretty quickly and he even found this one in the car all by himself.

My mom has the coolest backyard with all kinds of great hiding spots. The boys love to go explore up in this part and I found some great places to stash the eggs. We had a great time for Easter and I'm amazed we had time to fit it all in. Now we need to eat all our eggs!