Easter!

 Easter!

Easter fell on conference weekend for our church, so it was pretty special.  We tried to not plan things that would take away time from our church services, that meant a Friday night egg dying session!

We tried a new tie die kit.  It sort of worked, but was pretty messy.  I don't think we will do that one again.  We all had stained fingers for a few days...

 We also did the traditional, good, old fashioned, food coloring method.

 Here are some of the eggs we ended up with.

 The next morning, in between conference sessions, we went to our communities egg hunt.  It was like a mosh pit gone wild.  I don't think we will go next year.  Most of my kids did ok, but my boys are used to more civilized egg hunts.  Like just our family.   They didn't understand the concept of "start running right away", "grab any egg you can find", "fight your way to the middle as fast as you can", it was madness.  Jack is pretty aggressive, so he ended up with a handful of eggs, but poor Hunter hesitated just a bit too long.  The pack got ahead of him and ravished everything in sight.  Luckily I (illegally) guarded an egg for him to find.  So he left with just one egg, but I made his sister's give him some.  Still, it was kind of sad.  I like our "just family" egg hunts much better!

 The Fire truck saved the day!

 Both boys got to sit in the drivers seat, and they even let Hunter push the siren switch.  He was so excited.  Now he wants to be "Chief Firefighter Hunter Sir" when he grows up.  He even has the fire station he wants to live at all picked out, it just happens to be up the street from our house ;)

 We went and watched the second session of Conference with our good friends.  We have known these guys for a good while now, and they have popped up here and there on my blog before I am sure.  After conference was over, we did a combined family egg hunt.  This was much more fun!  Hunter ended up with many more eggs this time!

 Our friends have a great back yard for hiding eggs in!

 Easter morning.

Our spoils!

I think they liked what they got!

Easter Sunday, we actually didn't have our official church meetings.  It was the last day of our General Conference, which we can watch on TV.  So, I took these pictures the week before, which is when we wore our new Easter clothes.  I also made my kids wear them the week after Easter too.

Some cute kiddos!

These handsome boys just can't let a beautiful, sunny afternoon pass without getting their "motorcycles" out and having a race.

Sneaky, sneaky.

good thing they are so cute!

It was a wonderful Easter!