Easter 2012

Ok everyone here is OUR Easter post.  I know you are probably tired of seeing everyones kids dressed in their Easter best, finding eggs and opening Easter baskets, but here is one more :)  We had a really nice Easter this year.  It is so nice to not have to travel (even if it was only a couple of hours) to be with family on holidays.  We get to do all the big family stuff, but we still get a lot of time together as our family.

This is just a random cute picture of Max and Owen at the park.  I'm sure someday they will be great friends.

This is how I found Ollie watching a movie the other day...silly kid.

 Saturday we headed to our primary Easter egg hunt.  My kids aren't old enough for me to want to brave community egg hunts yet so we keep it simple.  Right when we got there Ollie started finding eggs and putting them in his basket, he wasn't too happy when I made him put them back and wait for it to start.

 Max and Anderson looking for eggs.

 Jason has been working at least a 1/2 day most Saturdays, so he met us over there when he was done.  It was a gorgeous day.

That night we dyed eggs with my parents and then left the kids while Jason and I went to dinner with some friends.

 We have 9am church right now so we held off on finding eggs and baskets until after church.  Plus, I liked the idea of talking about the real reason for the holiday before celebrating the commercial side of it.  Church was really, really good.  We had amazing speakers and really beautiful musical numbers.  We also attended a musical Easter fireside a couple of weeks ago that really got me in the spirit of Easter. I really hope with everything we did, something got through to my kids :)  The Easter bunny hid their baskets, and with a little help Ollie found them right away (I swear I am more excited than they are).

Max got right to work opening this Cadbury egg.  This kid has a MAJOR sweet tooth.  After he opened it, he put the entire thing in his mouth.

 I didn't get a cute picture of the boys together but you can see their matching outfits.  I got a little carried away with the eggs this year.  I think I hid about 60 around our house, so needless to say Ollie had a good time.  Max would set his basket down, walk around, find one, bring it back to his basket and repeat.  It was cute.  He didn't make it long though before he had to go down for a nap.

Ollie and Grandma checking out his loot.  The eggs mostly had fruit snacks and money.  I figured I could confiscate the fruit snacks and put them in his lunches for preschool.

 After a very nice and relaxing afternoon we headed to my aunt and uncles house for Easter dinner and another egg hunt for the kids.  I love going to their house, they have great deck to sit on and enjoy the nice weather and they have a nice big yard for the kids to play.  

A lot of my cousins weren't there this year so Ollie was the oldest of the four kids, so he got a LOT of eggs, again.  Max enjoyed his more appropriately sized basket :)

We did get a family picture.  And lest you think we take ourselves too seriously, a ugly face picture as well (your welcome).

My boys LOVED this wagon.  They had all four of their grandparents there and convinced each of them, along with their parents, to give multiple rides around the yard.  When they ran out of adults to ask, we found Ollie pulling Max around.  It was really sweet.  I love my boys.

 One of the best things the Easter bunny brought was and extra 40 pack of darts for the nerf guns.  The boys have loved playing with the darts.  Yesterday they lined them all up on the entertainment center and then knocked them all down.  It was good fun. 

I hope everyone had a very happy Easter!!!