Easter!

Easter wore me out this year.  Literally.  I wasn't the same for several days after, but I did survive.  I woke up early to start making bunny buns and getting dinner ready.  We have church at 1pm and it sort of messes up my dinner plans a lot.  The kids got up early with me and found their Easter baskets.  They were excited!

 Anna liked a bunny she got.

I made bunny buns for a sort of breakfast using the breadmaker to make the dough this year and they turned out good.  I got the ham in the oven and started to get the potatoes ready ahead of time.  Then is was time for an Easter egg hunt.  Here are the kids ready to hunt for eggs.

 

It's hard to get a good Easter egg hunt picture.  I'm always getting them from the back as they run away from me.  :)  Here are a bunch of egg hunt pictures.  You can see our grass is starting to get slightly greener thanks mostly to Scott's vigilance. 

 

Matthew was very sweet to help Anna find eggs and he even gave her a few of his to even things out at the end.  He's such a nice brother!

And we all survived the egg hunt too!  We dyed a few Easter eggs earlier in the week (and by a few I mean 18) and we had a nice Easter dinner.  I didn't buy matching Easter outfits this year.  I bought Anna an Easter dress last year and she refused to wear it so I didn't bother this year.  Plus she still fits in last years Easter dress...which she didn't wear.  :)  We had our usual tangerine glazed ham, scalloped potatoes, and strawberry spinach salad for Easter dinner.  It all turned out good.  But between making the goodies and dinner, overseeing festivities, surviving church (which involved singing with the choir and going early for choir practice, watching Grant and helping Scott teaching his primary class which also involved wrangling one particularly unruly 4 year old and chasing her down the hallways at one point) I was one exhausted pregnant lady.  I seriously overdid it and was sorry for the next two days.  Tuesday night I got a good night sleep and felt more like my old self by Wednesday.  But I tried to do too much on Easter and I paid for it.  I'm taking it easier now or at least leaving plenty of time to rest.  At the end of the day on Easter we watched a short church video about Christ and Easter so that helped bring things into focus a little more.  And I got to sit down for that part.  :)  Hope everyone had a nice relaxing holiday!