Easter

Easter

Easter 2016

Easter this year did not go to plan.  I was so excited for the kids to do their Easter hunt outside.  And then it snowed.  So there goes that plan.  Then on Easter morning, Evy woke up with a fever of 103.  Luckily after some Advil, Evy's fever came down a bit and she was a mostly happy baby.  The nice thing was that they didn't care that the Easter egg hunt was inside or that Evy was sick, they just enjoyed finding eggs and playing with their Easter goodies.  Nate loved that we put popcorn in the eggs.  He doesn't really like sweets, except sometimes chocolate, but he absolutely devours popcorn.  And Evy got some teddy grahams in hers.  The big hit from the Easter baskets was the bubble machine.  Nathan loves holding it and Evy loves trying to get the bubbles.  So at the end of day, we still had a great Easter together.

Dyeing Easter Eggs

We tried something new this year with our Easter eggs.  We used food dye instead of buying a kit and the colors were so much more vibrant.  Nate loved pulling out the eggs and seeing them change color.    I was a little worried about Nate making a big mess or knocking something over, but he was actually very careful.  Nate's favorite part was using qtips to make polka dots on the eggs.

Happy Easter

Nathan & Evy were spoiled with their Easter basket.  Both Grandmas sent them Easter packages and they loved their gifts.

Nathan had been practicing finding eggs all week in preparation for the real deal and loved finding eggs.  When we had our real egg hunt outside, Nathan was ecstatic.  He loved running around to find the eggs.

Later that afternoon we had our friends, the Murphy's, come over.  We "watched" the last session of General Conference together, but really we ended up watching the kids a lot of the time.  Nathan was having so much fun playing with their 7 month old, Aubrey, which makes me really excited for when Evy gets a little older and can interact more with her brother.  After conference we had a big easter feast.  It was nice having an evening with the Murphy's to catch up.  Both of our families are graduating and moving on to new things.  We are going to miss them a lot!

Happy Easter!

Easter Eggs

Nathan was so excited to color easter eggs.  He wanted to help with everything.  He was in awe when we dropped in the color tablets and seeing the vinegar change color.  Nathan loves to color with white crayons, but gets so frustrated when he can't see it on his white paper.  So he loved coloring on the eggs and being able to see what he was drawing.  I loved watching his face when we'd pull out an egg out of the dye.  He was so proud of himself.