Easter weekend

I've decided Easter is my new favorite holiday. It doesn't have all the stress associated with the Thanksgiving/Christmas/New Year's season, the weather is gorgeous, there's still a religious aspect to it (though the things we do to celebrate aren't really related), and kids love it!

We started Saturday morning by having a neighborhood Easter-egg hunt. There are only 9 houses in our "neighborhood", but we had 10 kids, which was perfect. They came to our house to decorate baskets while some of the adults hid eggs at the houses down the street. I contributed 2 dozen eggs, thinking that would be perfect, but some of the other women went a little overboard and we had over 500 eggs for 10 kids.

I tried to get some pictures of Ethan, but I couldn't keep up with him. He had a blast. Colin was very hesitant at first, then totally got into it. After a while he would wander off on his own into the wooded areas, bring back eggs and drop them in the basket Jason was carrying. He was so cute. Then he discovered that there was candy inside, and he would bring each egg to us to open for him. Easter morning started with a hunt to find the eggs we had dyed earlier in the week, easter baskets, then breakfast before rushing off to 9 am church. After church Jason and I made dinner while the kids played. We had my family over and our friend Anna with her two kids. Dinner was yummy and relaxing and fun. It was a perfect, gorgeous, fun weekend. Everyone was healthy and happy, which we needed after March!