Saturday, April 21, 2012

Easter Day

ImageOn Easter we woke up and had a very quick Easter egg/basket hunt and then got ready to go to church. I was able to get a few pictures of them in their cute outfits.
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We arrived early at church so we took a few more pictures in front of this gorgeous fountain.Image
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After church we had to wait in line to take a little bus to our car, and the kids waited so patiently! They thought it was fun riding on the bus.Image
After church we went to Gma and Gpa's house for another Easter egg hunt! Image
Gma and Gpa with the kids.Image
The kids made resurrection rolls with Gma.Image
He thought it would be better to put his head in the basket, rather than eggs! He changed his mind quickly once he saw his eggs lying around. Image
Cooper is showing Ben where his egg was. They each had to find about 24 eggs. The grown-ups also had an Easter egg hunt that was VERY competitive. We'll have to video-tape that next time :).Image
Jackson enjoyed checking out his eggs.Image
Comparing eggs was a fun activity!
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It was a fun Easter!

Thursday, April 19, 2012

Easter Eggs

ImageI thought this was so cute how Jackson is laying on Cooper while he's reading to them!


We had fun dying Easter Eggs this year. We didn't do it last year so I was happy to finally do it this year.

ImageWoops, I had to reach into a too-small cup to get the egg out and my hand was dyed like this for quite awhile-this was after I washed my hands multiple times!Image


Jackson had some difficulties holding the eggs so we put them in this whisk. It worked great!ImageCooper made some beautiful eggs! He had his own ideas-had me draw a cross on one of them and wanted me to draw a picture of Jesus on one of them! He wrote "Jesus" on one of the eggs.
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That blue one was the one where he wrote Jesus. You can only see a few of the letters there.Image
A random funny picture of Jackson- he got a sheet of stickers as a gift and put every single one of them on his shirt! Hilarious.Image

Saturday, April 14, 2012

Palm Sunday

ImageOn Palm Sunday we always go to church and then go to my parents' afterward for the kids to find their easter baskets. We of course get pictures of all the kids together!

Then my two cutie pies.
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My parents had company this weekend, our long-time family friends Robin and Jim, so they were nice enough to take a few pictures for us. Image
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The kids were of course excited to find their Easter baskets!Image

Wow, look at all that loot!Image
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Robin was playing with Jackson, he takes a little while to warm up to new people, but then he loves playing with them.Image
We always get silly string in the Easter baskets- one of their favorite activities (and mine too! :))Image
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Woops, I got some in his mouth.Image
This was the best picture I could get of my family.Image
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It didn't end that way.Image

Friday, April 13, 2012

Easter Activities

ImageWe went to our local egg hunt before Easter and the boys had a blast! Cooper met the Easter bunny-Jackson was not a fan.

They split the kids by ages so I walked with Jackson so I didn't get a picture of Cooper doing the hunt.Image
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And he's off!Image
ImageLook mom, an egg!
ImageThey also had some fun games and a bounce house. Here the boys are watching a puppet show!
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Cooper's school also had an Easter party. I'm one of the room moms so we were in charge of planning the party. They first had an egg hunt...Image
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then we did a group picture of the class. (I cut a few kids off, oops!) Image
Then we had a few activities planned...they put on bunny ears and had to hop and find easter eggs...Image
then they did an egg spoon race.Image
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Last, we had some extra time so we played "hot eggs" (instead of hot potato).ImageThis was just the start of our Easter activities!