Easter

We had a wonderful Easter this year! With the new baby, I wasn't up to doing a lot of activities like we have in the past. We didn't do any art projects or service activities or any of that stuff. But we did still have some fun Easter celebrating and made the holiday fun and memorable.

Friday afternoon we dyed Easter eggs! The boys really got into it this year- using multiple dyes to make rainbow eggs. Chase was even trying to come up with ways to make them even fancier next year (he wants to paint them- heaven help me!)

I didn't take any pictures to document it, but Friday night we had our friends, the Jacobs over for pizza and movie night! They are a super fun family to hang out with, their kids get along so well with our kids, and they played all night long while the grown ups actually got to visit! It was so fun! The kids were playing outside towards the end of the night when Hudson came in COVERED in dirt- I mean the kid was BROWN. I asked what happened and he said "oh, we were just playing dirt rainbows!" (Meaning throwing dirt, so it makes an arc, at each other). It was a wonderful night!

Saturday morning we met over at my parents house for our annual Easter egg hunt! Nana hides tons of eggs and toys and the kids were all spoiled! These kids are so lucky to have such a fun Nana and Papa! Afterwards we had a delicious brunch all together- I love this tradition!

 Our day was so busy- from there we went on to Chase's soccer game. We are all so happy that soccer season is up and going! Chase loves it and plays really hard.

 Easter morning we told our kids they had to stay in bed until we got them up (which didn't exactly work out). With being up so much at night with Davis we wanted to get any extra sleep that we could! The boys excitedly ran downstairs (once we gave them the okay) and found their Easter baskets! They each got a new spring outfit, some sidewalk chalk and watercolors. Davis got some onesies and wipes. Then we started making breakfast. We had Brandon and Angel's family over for breakfast. The kids had a great time running around together!

 We have 1:00 church, so we had the whole morning to do breakfast and get ready for church. We tried 100000 times to get a good photo of the boys in their darling Easter clothes. This is pretty much the best we could do. They looked so cute all together though!

 Church was wonderful! Our boys went up to sing "I wonder when He comes again" with the primary kids. Despite practicing all week, Chase mostly didn't sing. And Hudson ran right to the microphone (which is usually Chase's signature move) and then proceeded to fight with another little girl throughout the whole song about who got to hold the mic- which was thankfully OFF. Then after they were done and all the kids headed back down, Hudson went the wrong way. Which made it so Chase was yelling "HUDSON!" at him and then Hudson loudly responded "I knew what I was doing!" Someday my boys might be some of the kids who just reverently sing and then reverently return to their seats, just not today!

We ended the day having a lovely Easter dinner back at my parents house. We tried to get a picture of the fab five, in all their cute new Easter clothes. The outtakes were seriously hilarious! Hudson and Nora had this cute little hugging thing going on- which we were wary of since this type of thing tends to end with Hudson getting a little too into it and Nora crying. This is the cutest little group of cousins I've ever seen!

And the babies! I'm sure these two will be best buddies. I'm so glad they came close together.

All of these celebrations are fun, but obviously the most important part of celebrating Easter is remembering our Savior. Hudson got a little baggie from his primary teachers that was filled with little items from the Easter story (sticks, a nail, some white cloth, a rock) and Hudson kept acting out the story for us with them (although I think he took some creative liberties- he had Ben lash the sticks together to make a cross, then said that the nail was Jesus, and the remaining stick was the soldier who guarded the tomb). It was sweet and funny and maybe a little sacrilegious, but also innocent. It might be my favorite memory from Easter this year!