Easter Celebration

We enjoyed celebrating Easter and filled it with lots of fun activities. There was a Ward Easter Picnic and Egg Hunt a few weeks before Easter and the kids really enjoyed it. We loved having Easter and Conference on the same weekend. It was a very relaxing and fun weekend. We dyed eggs and had an egg hunt in our backyard on Saturday morning. Tucker helped color 2 eggs and then he was done. Luckily Talia had fun coloring eggs and helped me to the end. We decorated some of the eggs with glue and colored foil paper and they turned out great. Since we are avoiding desserts and candy we put money in the eggs for the egg hunt and Talia and Tucker loved that. They were spoiled by both sets of grandparents as usual. They loved getting their cards and packages from their grandmas and grandpas. The Easter bunny brought a little bit of candy and more money in their eggs. We had a yummy Easter dinner with homemade oatmeal rolls, ham, mashed potatoes and vegetables. We had a chocolate pudding cake with vanilla ice cream for dessert. This was our day to splurge and we did just that. Talia planned an Easter Olympics with bunny hops, bunny skips and egg tosses and Tucker and I were on a team and Talia and Trent were on a team. Luckily we tied. That could have created some problems. It was such a nice day and so nice to spend it together. We ended the day by having an Easter Egg hunt with eggs that told the story of Easter. We do this every year and it is one of my favorite Easter traditions. It was a great way to end the day.