Our first adventure was our 2nd annual Easter egg hunt at Nelson's Grove with some cousins and friends- we hid and found one hundred eggs!
For Young Women's I made little birds nests because they are the cutest treats. The girls mostly just ate the skittles out of the nests... :)
For some reason, this picture just wants to be sideways but these are my glitter eggs that match our kitchen decor... so sparkly and beautiful!
Of course, we decorated boiled eggs too- sometimes we do a little tie dye, sometimes the rubber band thing, but this year our favorite was the wax crayon...
Easter (Saturday) morning was the best though! Weston found his basket in the bathtub- including a new tennis racket! (This is reminiscent of my Easter mornings growing up- Pa always made sure we had good tennis rackets and if we didn't, we got them for Easter! This is one of the reasons we do Easter baskets on Saturday, you know, we want to play with our toys!)
After getting our baskets, Weston and I went to the Orem city Egg hunt in the cold wind to see about getting some prizes. Just for being there, they hand you a bag of coupons for all kinds of free stuff (which makes it totally worth it for me:) We stood around the field and spotted out some good eggs, I gave Weston some pointers on how to run straight for the eggs and ignore the rest and then they said "Go!" Weston casually strolled over to the side to get a bag which someone else got first. Then he strolled over to an egg (not the ones we'd talked about) which someone else got. After about 3 minutes when the field is almost bare, I find him with one sack of extra coupons and that was it... Not even one piece of candy! Silly boy!
Hyrum found his in the pantry and he ate a LiTtLe too much candy because he was bouncing off the walls the whole rest of the day. When I told him to calm down, he said "Well, it's your fault, Mommy, because you let me eat so much candy!" Hmm, what should I do next year, do you think?
Jag even got his own pile of treats- new kitty litter, soft treats, soft food, and his new favorite toys: pipe cleaners! I have a package of them downstairs in the storage room, in a bag, in a rubber made bin. Somehow, he manages to move the lid and sneak the pipe cleaner out of the bag during the night and then he leaves them all over the house- naughty kitty! He was very excited for Easter morning and even bit a hole in the bottom of his favorite treat bag... Good thing he is such a cute kitty!
All week, we have been following the story of Easter as it progressed, from the Triumphant entry on Sunday, to the crucifixion last night. It's been a great chance to really focus on what Easter is about and another good reason why we do Easter baskets on Saturday and not Sunday- nothing happens on Saturday because it was in between the death and the resurrection. Sunday morning, though, we can focus purely on the Resurrection. How grateful I am for the great Plan of Salvation and especially for the Atonement of my Saviour! Happy Easter!
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