Easter

We've had lots of fun Easter festivities over the past few weeks.  Last week there was a church primary Easter party.  We donated lots of filled eggs for it.  Here are John and Emma playing one of the games.

The bigger kids can manage things on there own, so I was with John and Emma for most of the activities.  Here they are trying to cross the cultural hall with a balloon between their legs.

Tricky!

There was a giant piñata shaped like an egg, filled with smaller eggs filled with candy.  :). Here John has a go at it.

And Emma!

Grant used his charm to go without a blindfold.  :)

Matthew and Anna got a few swings at it too.

It was a fun party.

The day before Easter a few ladies on our block arranged a block Easter egg hunt.  Each family donated some eggs and hid them in their yard or somewhere on the street.  The kids had a great time but it didn't take them long to find everything.

Later on in the day we dyed Easter eggs.  We have lots of soccer and tennis practices this past week so there hasn't been a lot of free time.  We had lots of eggs and lots of dye.

Anna liked the color impressions the eggs left on her paper towel

She told me the names of all her eggs

Quite a lot of eggs!

Matthew the alchemist wanted to mix all the dye colors after we were done

He game all his new colors gemstone names like sapphire, ruby, emerald, amber etc.

Easter morning the kids had their Easter baskets filled with goodies and also found a bunch of Easter eggs in the back yard.

It was pretty misty that morning

I made bunny buns while we watched general conference.

The bunny buns are always very popular!

I wasn't feeling that good so I didn't do so well on dinner making.

We had ham and scalloped potatoes and it was fine but not my best work.

The table ready for dinner.  Scott made his famous baked beans and buttermilk rolls

It was a nice Easter dinner but a bit of a crazy day.  It turns out if you feed five young kids a bunch of sugar and then try to make them sit and watch general conference for several hours things could get crazy.  Scott and I were feeling a little frazzled by the end of the day.