Our festivities began the night before with egg decorating and cookie making. I found this fun easter cookie recipe online (see it here) where you read the scriptures as you use different ingredients to tell the story of Christ's final days on the earth. It was a neat experience especially when the next morning we got to open the tomb (oven) to find our cookies with cracks in them and a hollow inside (sharing that the tomb was empty and Christ had risen).
On Easter morning we got up very early (6:30 am to be exact), got dressed and went downstairs to see if the Easter Bunny had come to see us. He did find us and the boys loved their little treasures.
Just as I was taking this picture Carter took out his binki so he could...
...dive into the peeps!
I thought at this point that we would make and eat breakfast but Braden was anxious and wanted to get outside as soon as possible. He had his nose pressed to the window, exclaiming that he could see the eggs, so we went out and went on our hunt.
Braden Found the First Egg
Carter Found Some Too!*
*Here he is trying to figure out how to pick up another egg without dropping the ones he already had in his hands. He didn't want to give them up by putting them in his basket. After a while he decided that collecting the eggs in his basket would be okay.
After hunting all the eggs we came inside, Daddy made us yummy creamed egg on toast for breakfast, and we played with all the new treasures left by the Easter Bunny.
The Bubbles were our Favorite!
The rest of our day was filled with yummy candy and a spiritual feeding from Conference. We watched conference via the live stream on the internet on our laptop. The boys were both very well behaved during both sessions (it helped that each took turns taking a nap during sessions.) The end of of day brought a feast of Funeral Potatoes and Ham as well as a family walk and more bubble fun before going to bed.
We really did have a great Easter. We only wish that we could have spent it with our families. We really missed them very much and all agreed that the holidays, big or small, are always much better when we are with those we love. At least we have "chuver!"
1 comment:
what a good mother you are. the weather and my fatigue really made it lack luster for us. the kids didn't even have to hunt for anything. i am committed to being much more fun next year.
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