Easter

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Easter weekend was so much fun! The kids woke up on Saturday to eggs in their grass pots. (Aside: my mom planted cat grass in these baskets with the kids and it has grown like crazy. JT and I measured and charted the growth every day and it was growing an inch a day for a whole week!) We read the book The First Easter over breakfast and got ready to go to an egg hunt.

We met our friends the Bonnells and the Schmalzes at the egg hunt. Don’t the kids look excited? 🙂

It was Haley’s first egg hunt so I focused mostly on taking pictures of her in action. JT only wanted to pick up one egg (seriously) so there wasn’t much action there. Haley really got the hang of it and ended up with a pretty full bucket.

Afterward, Carl helped the kids look at their loot.

Then we all went over to the play structures and played in the sunshine.

We walked down to the lake with the kids and took some pictures by the river.

The older kids played in the river too. Notice where JT is standing: I said, “JT, keep your shoes out of the water.” Minutes later, the other two children were in tears, with soggy wet pants and cold wet shoes. You can see Brady crying in the second picture. 😦 JT was glad he listened to his mom!
Then we drove down to Grandpa and Grandma Cole’s house. The kids napped while I took my first spring run in the sunshine – hooray – and finished seven miles. Woohoo! I may work up to a half marathon someday. JT helped make dinner while Haley played Old Maid with Grandpa. She lasted for one card. 🙂

Oops, a couple random made it in here… snuggling under a blanket together and getting ready to leave with shades on.

Okay, back to it. Easter morning the kids got their Easter baskets from us and we enjoyed the Gymboree bubbles that float and don’t pop easily. If you haven’t tried them, it’s a must. They stay around for hours and you can stack them up on your fingers. So fun!

We got dressed and ready for breakfast and service at my parents’ church. I was lucky enough to find this dress for Haley in our hand-me-down pile a few weeks ago. I’m so glad I found it. It fit perfectly and I borrowed shoes from a friend that fit perfectly too! She felt like a princess in her floofy dress and picked out the “ink bow” all by herself.

After church we had an amazing dinner with Grandpa and Grandma Keene and Great Grandma Christensen there as well. Then the kids hunted eggs outside.

They also got to play with more bubbles from Grandma Keene…

… and eat frozen lemon yogurt pie from Grandma Cole.

We spent some time in the yard with JT’s black truck. Somehow I got conned into pushing it all over, but it was good exercise.

We went for a long walk and played at the park, and came back to eat up some leftovers, put on our pajamas (“jammies,” says Haley) and drive home. Both kids were asleep in the car within minutes!

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