Easter Fun

I was going to make these into two different posts, but since they are both about Easter, I decided to just make it one big post.
Warning: lots of pictures--what did you expect?

We spent Saturday evening dying eggs. I always think a dozen will be enough (mostly because no one ever eats the hard boiled eggs after we're done), but it never seems to be. And the kids seem to be done in less than 15 minutes. Oh well. They had fun while it lasted.

I love how long her lashes are in this picture.

I love this face--it's borderline crazy.
She's totally got the crazy eyes going on.

The finished product.
You can see some of them got dropped into the bowls pretty hard.

I absolutely love how excited the kids were in the morning to see that the Easter Bunny had eaten the carrots they left out for him--and to find all the candy that was in their baskets. Yum.

Helene was a little obsessed with it too...

Those eyes are amazing.

Since it was Conference Weekend, we didn't have our regular church service, so we quickly got ready and headed over to Grandma and Grandpa's house for some more fun.

They had eggs all ready to be dyed and
Hannah was all ready to go at it again.

Sammy was far more interested in
showing Ira the basketball game.

Then it was out to the backyard for an Easter Egg Hunt. Yes, I know that Hannah doesn't match. At all. She and Helene had coordinating outfits on, but when we got to my parents' house it was freezing and super windy and all Hannah had on was a short sleeved shirt. I meant to check the weather before I left...but got distracted and forgot.

Luckily I had a sweater in the van for her, but it was striped. It seriously almost killed me to put her in a striped sweater and polka dotted skirt, but I managed to cope okay. Just explaining why she is wearing the sweater in these pictures--you know how I am.
(And if you didn't before...you do now.)

Even the dog got in on the actionI just love big Ira's basket is.
Checking out all their loot
Helene managed to find a few treats...
...and a few more.
Emma found a ton of eggs.
And I just had to throw this one in because
sometimes I just can't get enough of her curls
Me and Helene
Me and Hannah
The boys decided to break out the Monopoly game.
While Hannah and Emma put on (pretend) make-up.
And then played around in the playroom
Hannah told me she couldn't look at the camera
because she was too busy doing laundry.
Ummm...if you want to do laundry sweetie,
I can put you to work at home.
Emma is too cute in those ponytails.
Sean was adorable as always.
And Helene tried to play along...
but then changed her mind.
She decided to have a snack and play with the big girls.
And found a little chair just her size.
So thrilled to be eating dinner.
She was actually totally exhausted from missing her nap.
The girls were inseparable.
We had a great visit with family and the kids have such a great time together. It's so nice to have family close by.
Happy Easter!!