Easter

We had a great Easter this year! It began 12 days before Easter with the opening of a single egg. We received an Easter countdown gift from my sister Michelle. For the past few years she has expressed her gratitude for having a Christ centered Easter countdown that she enjoys each year and this year she shared that gift with our family! We were all so excited. Did you  know that 12 is evenly divided by 3, which means that every child had the same number of opportunities to open a Easter egg. It was fun to read scriptures about Christ and talk about what happened to Christ leading up to Easter morning. 

Then a week before Easter we were invited over to my first cousin once removed (for ease sake I call him Uncle) Keith's house for a hunt with their kids and other cousins. I felt super loved that they thought to include us in this tradition that they have. Tucker successfully found all of his permitted number of eggs before I made it up the stairs and got my shoes and Brylee's shoes on. He was FAST! Hunter was then coming in from outside as I headed out with Brylee and would not pause long enough for a picture. He had eggs to open! :)

Brylee figured out what to look for and that she didn't have to open them right after finding them. It is interesting how when kids are small they want to open their eggs as soon as they are found and when they get older the understand that they should find as many eggs as possible before they stop to open them :)

Gunnar just had lots of fun with everyone's empty eggs. He loved that he could crawl around and get whatever he wanted and no one tried to stop him :P

The following week we had our ward Easter egg hunt with a breakfast, the children thought it was fun to wear their baskets on their heads like hats. 

This time I succeeded in getting a picture of the boys "hunting" for the eggs. 

After the ward party we went to a community hunt. As my experience with community hunts has been, they are not worth all the wait and heat. Tucker and Hunter did enjoy getting their faces painted. Hunter refused a picture but Tucker's spiderman face matches his shirt so well. He was super excited, and did not want to wash it off in the tub for Sunday.

For Easter, the children got new clothes :) We bought the boys' suits at JCPenny while they were on sale. Tucker didn't really want the white shirt, he wanted one that was colored like Hunter's but Bryant convinced him otherwise. We were pleasantly surprised when Tucker's suit rang up for $3, apparently it was on a super sale :) 

And these pictures of Hunter show his wonderful personality. He loves to pose like this for almost all pictures these days, I'm just glad he didn't feel the need to cover his face with his hands. I sure love his craziness!