Easter

What a good Easter we had at our house. We started out on Saturday night dying Easter Eggs. Jared boiled up about 2 dozen, which we end up going through pretty fast when you have 4 kids.
The egg kit we got this year was a lot of fun. After you dyed the egg you smeared a little glue onto the egg. Then we pretty much put on gold leafing, but all different colors. They turned out so pretty, and the kids had a ton of fun.
Phoenix showing off his pink, blue, gold and silver leafing that he added to make his favorite egg.
Easter morning we kind of run it like Christmas. They're allowed to check out their baskets and the 1 or 2 presents the Easter Bunny brought them. But then they have to wait for Mom and Dad before they can't start their egg hunt.

The Easter Bunny brought Phoenix this ever so cool plush football....
That is actually a pillow with a sleeping bag stuffed inside. He LOVES it, and sleeps with it every night.
The Bunny knew Aspen pretty well, and since she's not old enough to get her ears pierced he brought her some clip on and magnetic earrings. You can only guess how long it took for her to remove those from the paper and put them on her ears. And of course she wore the flashiest most dangly ones to church that morning.
London lucked out and got a new CD player. He's able to plug his MP3 into too, so that was a winner hands down.
Sicily, our little princess, got a Rapunzel (Tangled) dolly. She has long hair, clips, mirror, brush and a crown that just made Sicily's day.
I do have a video of our Egg Hunt this year, but if you watch it for too long you get a bit sick. I was following the kids around with the camera as they hunted, and though you do get to hear all their shouts of joy, it does make one a bit nauseous.

So here's the aftermath. The Easter Bunny hides all of our dyed eggs and a bunch of candy filled plastic ones too. We had to keep counting up the dyed ones to make sure we'd found them all. The Bunny finds it hard to remember where he/she hid them all.
One of my favorite traditions as a child was cracking our eggs. We would chase each other around the house and whack them on each others heads. Way more fun than whacking it on your own.

So this year I snuck up behind London and gave him a good whack. He retaliated of course. Phoenix wanted to jump in and get Dad, so before Jared realized what was going on I asked him ever so sweetly if he could get something for me that was on the floor in the front room and bring it to me in the Kitchen. This of course was just a rouse so he would bend over so Phoenix could reach his head. It worked perfectly. Then all chaos broke out. In the end I grabbed Phoenix's little face and was kissing him all over to distract him from the egg in his hand. This didn't work at all because he reached right around my arms and whacked me on the head as I was kissing him...the little stinker. :)

So we ended up with a bunch of cracked, and marble looking, eggs to turn into Deviled Eggs for dinner.
All in all it was a good Easter. I'm always happy for these traditions, but what makes me more happy is knowing the true meaning of Easter. I am so grateful for an Eternal Father who was willing to sacrifice his son so we can return to him someday.