Easter 2015

Our Easter is pretty much the same every year...party in Plain City on Saturday, the day before Easter.  Hunt for baskets and chocolate eggs on Sunday morning at our house.  Dinner and another hunt in Sandy after church.  Not much changed this year, except Easter fell on General Conference so we enjoyed that instead of going to church.

My mom had set up a scavenger hunt with clues for the kids to find their baskets.  Chloe helped Brynn with finding all of hers.

I passed Ivy off to Grandpa so I could take pictures.  He had her asleep in no time!

Excited kids checking out their goods...a new book and jammies for each of them, and new summer outfit, plus a new outside toy.

They played a few games, including an egg toss game.  They each picked a partner and tossed the egg (not hard-boiled) back and forth.  Every time it was successfully caught, they took a step apart.

Justin and Bryce were the winners.  They went incredibly far apart and continued to catch it without it breaking.  We spectators were very impressed and I think they were a little surprised themselves.

Christopher and Erin got pretty far until it cracked on Erin's leg.

They played more games and played outside the rest of the afternoon.  Ivy and I hung out in the house.  I enjoyed dressing her up in some cute clothes...we hadn't left the house much so she mostly had been hanging out in her jammies.

Easter morning.  The kids woke up and hunted for their baskets which is usually filled with candy, a notepad, and another little fun thing.  Then they looked for the chocolate eggs.

We had to rush a little bit to get dressed and ready and all cleaned up before Conference started.  Justin had been working with the missionaries giving a single mom the discussions for the past couple months and had invited the elders and the Regalla family over for breakfast (Shannon and her four kids).  I had prepared all the food the night before so it wouldn't be too much that morning.  We had sticky buns, an egg casserole, strawberries, and milk and enjoyed the Sunday morning session of conference.

We headed to Sandy after the first session and finished the day there.  After the afternoon session, the kids dyed eggs. 

Then they had another hunt in the yard.

Molly and Tiana

Grandma hid the eggs and then took care of the babies.

with Ivy and Eli

 I dressed the kids in their Easter clothes the following week.  They wore them for pictures back in March and then I made them wait to wear them again until Easter.