Easter Bunny

The Easter Bunny has done it again.

He somehow snuck into our house in the middle of the night and strategically placed plastic eggs filled with candy all over the house. Oddly enough, those same plastic eggs looks quite similar to the ones I stuffed with candy late Saturday night. Yes, as always, I procrastinated. Don't judge, you do it too.

The kids were up early out of pure excitement for what the Easter Bunny may have left them. They literally dragged us downstairs to start their hunt. I think the Easter Bunny was a little easy on them this year, they found all their eggs before I could even get the camera!

We went with the whole two-birds-with-one-stone thing and got $1 buckets and shovels from Michaels. They worked as their Easter baskets and a toy for playing with outside.

Roman got lots of candy (aka sugar) and a Lego man. It was a cute little fisherman, complete with white bushy beard, yellow overalls, and a fisherman's hat. And pole and fish.


Hayden's Lego man was a baseball player. Perfect since he starts t-ball soon! And, yes, all he wants for Christmas is his two front teeth.

Aubrey got a Dora purse. She loves it and carries it around with her everywhere she goes. However, she feels that her purse needs to always have food in it. Toys and such aren't enough, and we've found a variety of her snacks stuffed into her purse.

For Easter, we went up to Snoqualmie and had dinner with Jeremiah's family. His sisters Amy and Sophie and their families were there. Josette was up there, and it gave us one last time to see her before she headed back to Utah.

Aubrey loves to lock herself up in the toy area because it keeps the dogs out of her face.

The kids in their Easter attire.

Aubrey and I hanging out with the books. One of the (less wild of the two) dogs in the background. That's Loki. The other dog, Bailey, wants to marry Aubrey.

All of the cousins. Spencer, Roman, Hayden, Cecile, Aubrey, and Josie. Edmund is asleep on the chair. They had to surround him in order to get him in the picture. Cecile is getting married in August. Makes me feel old because she was still pretty young when Jeremiah and I got married!

Josie is a great babysitter. Too bad she doesn't live closer. The kids adore her!

We left around 4pm from Snoqualmie and went back to Mom and Dad's house for our second Easter meal of the day. This one, however was untraditional but still tons of fun and delish. Carissa and Adam made homemade egg rolls and Celeste made fried rice. My contribution? Cream puffs because I love them.

This year, as usual, we tried to help the kids understand the true reason behind Easter. While the boys could tell you that it's to celebrate Jesus' resurrection after being crucified, I don't know that they really understand it. Jeremiah and I understand the eternal and wonderful consequences of that event and we try to instill that knowledge in our children. We will continue to share with our kids our love of the Savior and all that he has done, and continues to do, for us, and I know that one day it will just make sense to them and they will have that same appreciation that we do for our beloved Savior and Heavenly Father.