Easter

I LOVE Easter.  My parents did a great job making awesome holiday traditions and Easter is in my top 5... no 2 easy.  This year was a little different because we didn't have a big group of friends.  We just had family.  It was a nice change but we still love when we have people joining in the fun with us.

At church I taught my little primary class (5 year old kids). We did a Easter Egg hunt.  In each egg was a little something that helped tell the Resurrection story.  The kids loved it and so did I.  It was a great way tell the story of the resurrection and it is something that I will be doing with my kids.

After church Morgan and Brice came over with their kids and we did our traditional egg hunt...You know the one where the kids look for their eggs for 5 min then the adults spend and hour looking for their eggs.  This year my dad changed things up and the kid eggs were in the front yard and the adults were in the pasture...(about 2 acres).  It was a little intimidating.  I also think our neighbors might think we are a bit crazy.  Us adults are all wondering around the pasture with our little bags looking for little plastic eggs. HAHA I love it.

Alaina taking advantage of the big kids looking for eggs so she could have some time on the trampoline by herself.

She is getting so brave and she is knows she is really cute. 

Ryker looking for eggs.

It's getting really fun with the kids getting older.  My dad can get creative with their eggs.

Someone always ends up in a tree.

The two boys hangin out together.  

My dad took the picture before this one and you can see Morgan taking a picture of them so I thought you should see the picture she took.

Alaina looking for her eggs.

The boy looking for the lost egg.  Some of the eggs were in the sprinkler boxes.  

Brice found a salamander in one of them.  Raelin was the first one there begging to hold it and take it home.  I love her.  She is frearless.

I love that she is posing with it like she is in love.  This girl loves all creatures.  She is great.  I love you Raelin!

Raelin was a big help with the adult hunt.

My dad put a big swing up in the tree in the pasture.

It is my favorite.  I love swings...just like Raelin.

Girls won. Boys are still looking for their eggs.

She doesn't ride the scooter she just drags it around everywhere.

Ryker can ride a big kid bike.  That doesn't mean no training wheels (he has been able to do that for a while) it means that he can barley reach the ground when he is on it.  And turning is tricky.  He crashed a lot but he is tough and determined to get it down.

This is the Easter outfit Toby picked out for Russell. Yes that is a superman shirt.

I LOVE my parents property.  It is so beautiful and peaceful.  

Easter usually has a lot of candy but Morgan and I were in charge of candy this year and we decided to just do a little candy and only the good stuff.  So we had a lot less eggs, most of them were filled with change. It turned out good.  There was still one egg that we couldn't find.  Maybe the horses will have a nice treat some day this year.  HAHA.

  I feel like this year we really concentrated on Christ.  After the egg hunt and dinner my mom told us the story of the Resurrection.  She had spend 6 months in Europe during college so she was able to tell us about her time in Gethsemane and the spirit that was there.  It was amazing how clear her memory was and the picture she was able to paint for us.  With her story and my teaching my class I feel like Easter this year was all about what it really should be about, Christ.  I loved what I learned and what I was able to teach Russell.  Being a mom has changed so much of my general thinking.  In high school all I cared about was candy and now I LOVE that I was able to celebrate Christ and all he has done for us!  Thank you to all who helped make this Easter so wonderful.