Easter Family Style

We had Easter dinner at my brother Kurt's house.  Everyone was there except Matt's family.  We had yummy food, sang happy birthday to Berk who turned 4 and played Kurt's amazing new game- Angry Peeps!  He's so clever! It was a real life Angry Birds game but with marshmallow peeps! The kids had a blast.  Once the sun when down we hunted for Easter eggs in the dark with flashlights.  This will be a new family tradition for sure.  They loved it.  (And lets be honest.....because its dark it takes them twice as long to find eggs which helps the fun last longer!)


The kids playing Kurt's awesome homemade game of "Angry Peeps"


Kurt in his very fashionable modern day version of lederhosen. 


Glow-in-the-dark-bracelets for the kids while egg hunting in the dark.
This was the highlight of the night BTW


 Cass, Garrett, Abby, Harley, Zac, Berk, Will
Kurt, Joey and my kids. (missing Matt's kids (4 of them)

Easter Morning

Happy Easter from our house to yours!

Cassidy's Easter Basket

Abby's Easter Basket

Oh the joys of egg hunting!

Miss Cass - she is so graceful even finding eggs!

We found out with this dress that she is STUNNING in orange. Not a lot of people can look as good as she does in orange!
I love that no matter how old I am there is a tiny part (or a large part) of me that still gets excited about Easter. The pretty baskets, dying the eggs, the candy and toys. Looking for that forgotten egg that has been over looked.

This year Cassidy was in on the Easter Bunny secret. It was fun to have her excitement while we were getting ready. She didn't know that the Easter Bunny can still be sneaky even with the help of a 10 year old! There was still some surprise and magic when she woke up and that was what made me smile.♥

These pictures were taken early on Sunday morning. We actually made it to church on time and had a wonderful, peaceful Easter Sunday. Just the four of us - all day! It was perfect.

Easter Update

I am a little behind in blogging land. I just realized that I forgot my Easter Update! My brain is not quite working to it's best abilities lately so I'll just update now if that's o.k.

Easter was a little different this year. We had been in Mexico until about 6:20 Saturday night. We pulled up into our driveway just as all our neighbors were walking down the street to the greenbelt for our 2nd annual Easter Egg Hunt in the DARK!!!

We hopped out of the car, ran into the house got our baskets and flashlights and headed down the street with everyone else. truthful I didn't even look in the mirror, change clothes or check my kids to see if the looked halfway decent. (This is so unlike me) We were too excited!!

(See how lovely I look from riding in the car for 4 hours!) This is Me, Crystal and Traci - I'm telling ya, my neighbors are great!

Our Neighbors two houses away had borrowed our nativity clothes and some of the kids put on a little Easter skit they had written. (cute) While the kids were in the garage watching the skit the Dads hid all the eggs in the greenbelt and front yard.

The kids had so much fun finding eggs in the dark. This is such a great idea because it takes a looooong time to find the eggs. Someone might be walking in front of you and miss an egg that was right at their feet. It all depends where your light is shining whether you find an egg or not. Abby lucked out and spotted an egg in the front yard so she was the only one that hunted there. I think she found about 95% of her eggs (about 20) in the yard while everyone else headed for the greenbelt. Cassidy and a cute girl she met stuck together and found a lot of eggs. I think the big kids (teenagers) went around and found eggs, opened them, took the candy and then put them back. Most of the eggs Cassidy found were candy less. Abby shared her candy and all was well but we might have to bring that up for next year.

After we had such a great time visiting, hunting for eggs and eating treats we headed home to unload the car and clean up from our trip. We got the kids in bed then Mr. & Mrs. Easter bunny went to work getting things ready for the next morning. As I was filling eggs with candy and filling baskets with toys I realized we didn't have anything for Easter dinner - oops! We didn't even have any milk!!! By this time it was about midnight and I was done so I said forget it, we'll just have whatever. And to be honest everything was fine. However, next year I am going to be sure to get our traditional Honey Baked Ham. I missed it even if no one else did.

(Darn picture won't turn to save my life!!)

Easter morning the girls had fun looking for eggs and their baskets. Cassidy is onto us but made sure she didn't spill the beans for Abby's sake. She's a great big sister and so thoughtful. Abby doesn't know how good she has it! Church was very nice and the rest of the day we spent together - nothing fancy but very nice and relaxing.

Oh and one last funny thing before I end this rather long post. While Mindy and Monica and I were shopping for Easter stuff and baskets we realized that all three of us have TOTALLY different traditions for Easter. I mean so different that we were laughing out loud in Wal-mart discussing it. I then talked to my youngest brother about our family traditions later and he and I have different memories as well. So I thought I would post my little families Easter traditions and see if people will post theirs. I think that would be fun to see what we all do on Easter.

Our Easter Traditions

1. We put our Easter baskets outside the backdoor with any colored hard boiled eggs we have done inside the empty basket.

2. The Easter bunny hides the eggs along with his own plastic candy filled eggs around the yard.

3. The Easter bunny also fills the Easter baskets with grass, more candy, a chocolate bunny, toys, chalk, socks, bubbles, lots of little cute springy toys like jump ropes and stuff from the $1 section, and always a new bathing suit for summer. (However this year they got webkins because they used the new bathing suits in Mexico-this is the 1st year there were no suits in the basket)

4. The Easter bunny comes on Sunday Morning.

So what is your family's Easter traditions?

Tuesday

I'm on a roll and playing catch up. I'm a little behind in the bloggity department. I am still not feeling up to par. I am dead tired and asleep by 9pm which is so unlike me! I usually put the girls to bed, clean up the kitchen and pick up the house. Then I sit down for some nice quiet blogging /computer time or catch up on my T.V. shows. I have not felt like doing any of these things. My sickness is still lingering and sleep is winning over anything else.

However today was highly productive. I took my car in to have the emissions done then stopped off at Marshall's to see if I could find the girls some Easter dresses. We found two cute ones for Abby. She LOVES them and has worn one of them non-stop since we bought it. It even came with a matching dress for her dollie. SO CUTE! And at $14.99 how could I say no???

I then dropped Abby off at pre-school while I headed to the grocery store. I hate grocery shopping. I didn't make a list so I was going in blind - never a good idea. I spent the entire two hours Abby was at school in the store. Geez! And what's up with the prices?? The news is right -food is up by A LOT!!!

Then we headed to the $1 store for Easter stuff. That sure is a fun store! I found cute stuff like Easter socks, candy, eggs, and the cutest fly swatter EVER!!! I couldn't resist and at only $1 I bought it without thinking twice! I might go back and stock up for V.T. gifts or fun B-day bag toppers. You can have a smile on your face while swatting those darn summer flies.

Then we had another cute family over for FHE tonight since they can't do Mondays. I think we are going to meet with them once a month and rotate houses. Maybe even add some more families into the mix. I made dinner and they brought dessert. Tom gave a cute lesson out of the Friend Magazine and then we had a mini Easter egg hunt (that went with the lesson) Good food, good friends and a lot of fun!

(sorry about the pictures, blogger won't let me get them straight no matter how many times I have tried!!!)