Easter Festivities

All of the Easter festivities were really fun this year. The kids seemed to be at this magical age wherein they really appreciated every aspect of it. In the years past I remember the egg dying and cookie decorating to be this big headache that was hardly worth the mess. This year each kid was really involved in the process and it made it super fun!

Annual Easter Egg Dye

Eden's "ladybug" egg

Zi loved this brown egg he made on the right. Seriously, he was so incredibly proud of it. Showing it to me over and over.

When I ask Eden what her favorite thing to do in the world is, her answer is..."Hang out with Tara", and you can see that here - it's written all over her face.

Zion (inspired by Tara) perfected this drip art form of cookie decorating. Seriously it worked so well and he had so much fun doing it!

Zi took the cookie decorating very seriously.

Tracy's eggs

Tracy made water balloons! The kids were in heaven!

The kids' cookies with zero help from me. (:

Zi got to do more egg dying while Eden was at school at his friends' house.

SC Sports Park "Eggstravaganza"

Eden impatiently waiting for the city Easter egg hunt to begin. She was so excited for this that it literally stressed her out.

This may have been the first year that Jon was off work for this event. He was super excited to go, and very serious about giving both the kids pep-talks on how to get the most eggs.

A rare family photo courtesy of Tracy (:

Easter Day

We always have a morning egg-hunt in our courtyard - this year it was super early because we wanted to do it before Jon left for work at 6:30.

These are supposed to be bunny prints, I suppose they look a lot more like bear prints but the kids don't seem to notice and are captivated by the fact that the Easter bunny leaves tracks.

I was packing the car and came outside to find klamath like this - with his head stuck in the basket munching on the yogurt covered cookies that we in Zion's eggs.

Eden came to his rescue...

And then fed him some of her own eggs.

More in-door and out-door egg hunts at the Wallas after church on Easter morning.

Eden and her "bestie"

Appently Zion turned on the game and had all the boys watching for a bit.

Meanwhile the girls were drawing.

Grammy & Grampy's House

We had a really nice afternoon with Grammy & Grampy and Jen and her boys. We haven't seen Jen and the boys for a long long time...maybe Christmas?? It was amazing to see how much they had both grown!