Easter 2018

Easter Prep
I made a couple of tweaks to our egg-dying routine...turns out dye-free dye doesn't work worth a hoot for dying eggs. Thankfully my other new idea wasn't a total flop. The Eggmazing turned out to be a fun creative egg decorating idea that both old and young creative minds enjoyed. :) The machine spins the egg while you hold a marker to decorate. Still missed my classic eggs, so will likely go for a combo again next year.

We enjoyed one of our favorite lunches of the year...egg carton picnic lunch. :) We also made resurrection rolls for part of our Sunday breakfast.

We recycled our plastic eggs again this year. The Easter Bunny also got a note, along with a snack in the shape of a bunny (carrot ears, raisins to make a mouth and eyes, and a candy for a nose).

One more little tradition we started a couple of years ago was hiding the sugar egg. Brad is usually in charge but this year the kids wanted to hide it as well. He (hopefully) hides the egg after they go to bed and then they look for it the next morning.

If I remember correctly I saw this egg in a store and thought it was so cute but didn't know what we would use it for...and Brad came up with this idea.


Easter Day
The kids always love hunting for their baskets of goodies.

They each got a Geode and were counting down the minutes until we deemed it an acceptable hour for hammering a rock in the backyard on a Sunday morning...

We enjoyed a special breakfast.

All dolled up...

Lorelei had to have her tooth pulled in the parking lot just after lunch...
So thankful Brad gets that job.

After church we decided to go out to eat. I'm still torn about this. I love having the time off from cooking, but it doesn't quite feel like Easter without "the usual" meal. Everybody did enjoy it though, and I enjoyed not cooking and cleaning up! :) Then we had to head home to bundle up, as the temps dropped a lot more than we had anticipated. After a quick change, we headed to putt putt golf. We always have such a fun time when we do this and wish we could go every week. :) Both kids improved quite a bit from last year.

Spring!
(A bush at the golf course!)

We finished off the day with the kids playing with bubbles in the backyard. (With me wrapped up in a blanket...but can't compare to the cold they had further north!!!)

Happy Easter!!!