Easter Weekend…

 We’ve had a great Easter-filled weekend around here.  We had Friday off and relaxed most of the day and then went to the Good Friday service.

On Saturday, we finally dyed eggs . I decided to try tie-dyeing eggs this year. It was so easy and the kids loved it. The boys may or may not have been too impatient to let their colors set. J

I followed the instructions at Family Fun.

The boys went to a friend’s house Saturday night for a Flashlight Easter Egg Hunt. They had such a wonderful time!!

It’s our favorite Egg Hunt of the year. It is so different and the dark and flashlights add such fun elements!

This was Luke’s first year and he needed no instructions. He zoomed right out there with his flashlight and grabbed a bunch of eggs!

The kids woke up Sunday super excited to see what the Easter Bunny had brought. They spent the morning playing and sneaking too much candy and then we got dressed for church.

The sun was super bright for them! I thought they looked so cute and grown up. I got a glimpse of Daniel at 18 I think. A lady at church said Luke looked like a little Frat boy. Ha! He really kind of does.

We came home and ate a yummy ham lunch. The boys went on and on about how yummy it was. That makes a mommy feel good… even if Honey Baked Ham cooked 3 of the 6 items. J

And as not to be a hypocrite, since I have not one but 2 “Cute Easter desserts” posts, I tried to make cute Easter cupcakes.

I got the recipe for these bird’s nest cupcakes from Picky Palate. Hers are so much cuter, but these were festive enough for us!

After lunch I took a mega nap, which was awesome! I love a good nap and rarely get one these days.

It’s been a great Easter weekend around here and we still have one more day of it! We’re off for Easter Monday. I see laundry and mopping in my future.

Fun Birthday, I mean Easter Egg Hunt…

Luke had his school Easter Egg Hunt this week and, as usual, had a blast. He thought he was at a birthday party the whole time. Ha! He had been to a birthday party/egg hunt a couple of weeks earlier, so I guess he just thought he was at a really big birthday party. J

The Easter Egg Hunt was at the home of one of our students. Gorgeous!!

We had a little picnic….

Hunted for eggs…

Played, played, played….

And Luke got his face painted. He waited so long in line and was SO proud of his snake.

After the egg hunt, Luke just HAD to go show Daddy and Daniel his cool snake.

I think it was one of the best “birthday parties” he’s been to. J

{more} Cute Easter Desserts…

Last year I compiled a list of Cute Easter Desserts and have found some super cute ones again this year. There are all sorts of goodies out there in the world wide web. I’m not sure which of these I will make for our Easter dessert, but there are some very cute choices! Just click on the picture to be taken to the recipe.

Birds in a nest:

Nesting Birds Cupcakes

Butterflies:

Easter Chick Cupcakes:

Easter Bunny cupcakes:

Rice Krispie Hidden surprise eggs:

And what may or may not be an actual Easter cupcake, but is darn cute:

There are such creative folks out there! Love these cute little desserts!

Professional Egg Hunters…

I think the boys may soon become professional egg hunters. Especially Luke. Luke had an Easter Egg Hunt Birthday party on Saturday and then the church Easter egg hunt Sunday.

Here are the boys and some of their church friends ready to hunt some eggs.

The kids were way into running around and grabbing eggs, so only a back view of Luke and I couldn’t even catch up to Daniel.

Showing off his loot:

The only picture I got of Daniel was in the car on the way home. He was much too busy playing with friends and hunting eggs to be bothered any earlier.

Next up for Luke: the school Easter Egg Hunt. And lets not forget actual Easter. I think we might have a steady stream of candy for a while!

Wonderful Easter Weekend and the Camera Challenge…

We had a wonderful Easter weekend! The temperature was wonderful and we stayed busy!

I, however, don’t have the best selection of pictures. I was quite camera challenged this weekend.

Saturday we ran a few errand and finally dyed Easter Eggs.

Luke dyed his eggs using a whisk. I got that great idea from Family Fun. It keeps his fingers- or whole hand- from getting in the dye. I just put the egg inside the whisk and he put it in the cup himself.

Saturday night Daniel went to a Flashlight Easter Egg Hunt.

I forgot my camera that night! I really wanted to get some pictures, because it was such a cute, fun egg hunt. The kids played and ate dinner and when it got dark out, the adults hid the eggs and then the kids went out to hunt the eggs with their flashlights.

It was the most peaceful egg hunt I’ve ever seen! The kids had a ball.

I continued with the trend of bad pictures on Easter Sunday as well. I didn’t take any before pictures of the Easter baskets…

only the aftermath.

Then there was the pressure of the family picture… I’m not sure how I got talked into that one.

There is the ‘sun is way too bright’ version:

And the ‘one member of the family crying because Mommy got onto him for constantly making faces because the sun is too bright’ version:

Then we tried to get pictures of the boys together.

Daniel picked out his clothes this year for Easter. The boy loves to dress up.

We went to a great morning of worship and then headed back home for an Easter lunch. There was also a mega nap thrown in there too. Can’t beat that kind of day…or weekend!

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