Eggcellent

Some of our Easter traditions include: Dying the eggs, Egg-Hunts, and Egg Jousting

Colors and Candy

Here's the kids with their baskets of cavity makers- oops I mean candy. Plus us dying Easter eggs. James was thrilled to see the eggs change colors (last year he was too little to include in the egg-dying activity). His squeals of delight made me feel happy even when cleaning up all the colored dye drops on my kitchen floor.

A hunting we will go...

We got to hunt for Easter eggs twice this year- at our friends the Hatch's on Saturday and at home in our side yard on Sunday. We also found some real eggs beneath our outgrown grass this month too much to our surprise. I didn't know birds laid eggs on the ground. Seems risky to me- espacially in our yard!

Colored Eggs with Cheesy Pizza- YUM

We didn't set up the card table to do the eggs this year so I was disgruntled when clean up time came around and there was colored dye all over the countertops. But besides my grumpiness afterward we had fun dipping and decorating eggs. Grant's eggs kept jumping off the spoon spontaneously (kinda like Grant himself). Madison came in late to the egg-dying because she had been at a fireside with Jeremy so she kept her eggs simple this year. Carter dunked his eggs in almost every color he could (he seems to use this same decorating technique every year).


Later in the week we went to Carter's choir performance at school. He is a natural ham. He sang the songs with lots of expression and made me smile. One of the songs he sang went like this... Pizza, I like pizza, pepperoni pizza... with cheeeeeeeese!

Easy egg hunt? I Don't Think So!

I went a bit crazy hiding the eggs and the kids had to spend about 30 minutes to find all the tricky spots I hid the eggs in. Hey- my brother, sister, and I used to have pretend egg hunts at my Grandma's house for weeks after Easter with the empty plastic eggs. Hiding them is more fun then hunting for them (right Joe & Hollie?). I hide things from myself in my own house on a daily basis. Of course it's unintentional then...

"HOT Maggots"

Easter morning arrived and the bunny brought goodies AND snuggly sleeping bags. We stayed in them and listened to General Conference and were as cozy as could be. Carter was running around in his bag (yes you can run in a sleeping bag) for so long that he claimed he felt like a HOT maggot. We all laughed hysterically at this comment for way too long due to the amount of sugar we had been eating. I want to hug the person that came up with the Cadbury Egg. Thank goodness I can only buy them at Easter time. Since it was a GC day Jeremy also made Cinnamon Rolls (part of the reason our kids cheer when they find out we're having a GC weekend).

Jamesy didn't get his own sleeping bag because we knew he would burrow into one of ours and be happy. He does love a good snuggle, our little snuggle-bean.

Dying to dye?

It's a tradition for our family to dye Easter eggs every year. Not very original I'll admit, but I get some serious grumbling from my kids if I try to skip out on dying eggs. They don't even like to eat hard boiled eggs, but they sure have a blast decorating them. I think Carter dunked his eggs in every color dye we had this year. Madison's favorite egg was the Pepsi dyed one. And Grant thought we should let James dye some eggs, despite the mess that would make! When Jeremy got home from work the kids flocked aroud him to show off their egg-citing creations.