Easter 2010

I love Spring! I love Easter!

This year Easter fell on General Conference Sunday.

Twice a year we're lucky enough to get to stay home and watch "church" on TV!!

No waking up cranky kids at 6am, throwing them in church clothes, shoving breakfast down their throats and racing out the door for our 20 minute drive to church; that starts at 8am.

Instead it was a day of relaxation. No schedules. No responsibilities.

Easter Morning

After the morning session of conference, the Easter Bunny finally came and hid eggs in the backyard! Anden had impatiently been asking, since the moment he awoke, WHY the Easter Bunny hadn't come yet. We told him he was at church.

The Egg Hunt

This year, Anden was more concerned about the actual "hunt".

Whereas Taylee only cared about the contents within the eggs while loving carrying her basket.

Did you say there's MORE candy??!

Hee hee I ate Anden's candy too!

After the hunt, we broke out the bouncy house. Anden carefully removed Taylee's shoes.

So that he could use her for target practice.

I even got talked into joining the fun.

After lunch and naps, we had our friends the Mortensens over to play.

We had another Egg Hunt.

Anden capitalized on his previous experience and scored 90% of the eggs.

While the kids were examining the contents of their baskets, we watched in horror as the Mortensens puppy was poking at something (ok more like eating and coughing it up). Sweet, now the adults had something to examine too. After much debate, we realized it was a newborn bunny!! Wow, how appropriate that their dog found a poor dead newborn bunny during our Easter Egg Hunt!! Sadly, this is the 2nd one we've found! I'm so glad to know there's a bunny maternity ward in our backyard.

So after that festive addition to our day,
we had a yummy dinner and then walked over to the park.

What a great Easter!!

One more thing, I would like to apologize to our family and friends that spent Easter in the cold and snow!! If that isn't a reason to move to sunny Arizona...then I don't know what is!

But hey at least you didn't have to deal with this?
(I know, hardly a consolation prize! lol)



I joked with my brother in Idaho about the melted chocolates.
He kindly reminded me they had to remember not to put jelly beans in their eggs...because they'll freeze and break their teeth. Ouch! I'll take the melted mess!