Easter

This year we organized an Easter Egg hunt with some local friends on Saturday.  It was a huge success.  I plan on doing this every year!  It's fun to throw a party when there's no clean up (before or after) involved.  We just set a date and time, and told each family to bring 10 eggs per kid to be hidden.  We did our best to corral the kids on one side of the park while the dads hid the eggs on the other side.  I tried to get some games going, but the kids were pretty anxious to get hunting.  We managed to get a semi good game of duck duck goose (I tried calling it chick chick bunny, but I think that confused most of the kids...)

Then we let the kids go find eggs - releasing them by age (2 and under, then 4 and under, etc.) and told each kid to only find 10 eggs and then stop looking.  We had at least 50 people there, friends from work, our neighbors and church friends, and we were pretty much the only people at the park.  The weather was perfect, in the 70's and sunny, which is warm for early spring here.

Olivia with one of her best buds, Eliza.

The kids also got their Easter baskets from the Easter bunny on Saturday morning.  Levi loved his new ball.  He's pretty easy to please!

Here's some photos I took of the kids in their Easter duds.  I can't resist dressing the boys  up a like on Easter.  There's got to be something fun about dressing little boys, and Easter is one of those things.

We had a fun meal of ham, asparagus, homemade rolls and strawberry pie.  Sam helped the kids do origami lotus flower for place settings and we turned the napkins in to festive little bunnies.  Sometimes on holidays like this I envy people who have lots of family around, but at the same time, I really enjoy it being just us, and pretty laid back.