Easter Weekend 2016

March 27, 2016

We had a fun and full weekend celebrating one of our very favorite and most important holidays of the year- Easter!!!

We started on Saturday morning by going to an egg hunt at the boys' new school, HOPE.

They started with story time...

And then they sang Easter songs... LJ is hopping like a bunny here! haha! Not many people got into it so I was proud he did!

And then they did an egg hunt for each age group. Ellie and Barrett took off first...

And then Evan ran to his group before I could stand up. So I went with LJ first... He was Fast!!

Then I went to find Evan- he was just leaning nervously on a wall! Poor guy! So when I got there we went to find eggs together! Then we went to find Ellie and Barrett!

Since he was late to start at his hunt, there weren't many eggs left. LJ was so sweet and wait they could share all he found!
Sorting through their prizes! Evan was excited for this chocolate egg!

Saturday night Aunt Alexa and Finn came over for a visit! Yay!!

And she brought us Easter Advent Calendars! We are a little late starting... but we decided we will have chocolates celebrating that HE has risen for 10 days!!!

Sadly, the kids' Easter baskets are in the POD...and we don't have the POD at our new house yet. :(

So I had to make due with a couple random baskets I had around the house... luckily, the kids didn't seem to mind or really even notice!! Not our most exciting Easter baskets, but it's been a crazy few months!

Evan came down stairs on Easter morning dressed and excited to see what the bunny brought him!!!

LJ came down a little later, and he was super excited too! They both seemed the most excited for the new shorts (gray with yellow stripe)

the bunny left them! Silly boys!

Ellie was very excited about her new water bottle! She has been stealing the boys' like this for a couple months!

Then we joined our friends, the Averys, for Easter service at their church. They recently helped to plant a church, and we had a lovely time!

It was a fight, but I got to pick the boys' outfits!!

After the service, the church had an egg hunt. The kids have these things down now- Ellie too!!!

Since I had the boys in a non-athletic outfit, we decided to attempt a quick picture in the bluebonnets...

Ellie would NOT participate though :(

We went home to rest before heading to rest before dinner, and went through all the Easter crafts the boys had made at school and church.

These hats were my favorite!

Easter Dinner at the Robinson's:

After rest time, we headed to the Robinson's house for a family egg hunt and dinner!
As usual, Queenie had wonderful Easter baskets out for each grand-kid! They were all so excited to find theirs and sort through their stuff!!

Then we got ready for the kids' Easter egg hunt. The older girls (Kate and Lauren) hid all the eggs for the younger cousins!

Off they went!

Boys used their nets for the egg hunt!

LJ found the big winner egg!!!! He is on fire!

Ellie has this hunting stuff down!!! She's hard to stop! Hah!

Ellie reaching for a high egg!

Best I got of the cousin group... missing Locke and MacKenzie (and Ellie is not looking!).

Then it was time to go inside for dinner! I LOVE this picture of Barrett and Ellie!

Ellie hoarding all the Easter baskets!!

Time for dinner! Kids' table!!

How precious are the boys holding hands for the blessing!?

Beauties!

She likes BBQ!

Fun wasn't over- next we got to head outside for the Easter piñata!

Notice that Ellie always has something in her hands!

Uncle E was the designated 'holder'! Locke went first...

Then Evan...

LJ's turn...

Ellie enjoying the excitement but keeping her distance!

It took the older cousins one whack and the candy was everywhere!

And Easter can't be over until we have one more night with cascarones (confetti eggs). I am not sure what I saying here, but my face is pretty funny! Haha!