Easter!

For Family Home Evening the week before Easter we were of course talking about Christ's last days and the Resurrection. It was all going quite well and the kids were participating up until the part about the Resurrection when Rylee shut down and didn't want anything to do with our discussion. She finally, through clenched teeth, stated, "I DO NOT WANT TO BE RESURRECTED." What do you say to that??? It finally seemed a bit better when I told her that "yes, Hannah will be resurrected too". You can't go to Heaven without friends you know.

The Saturday before Easter we went to my parents for our annual Easter Brunch and egg hunts. Mom does three hunts: the traditional egg hunt and each kid gets their own color of egg so as to make it completely fair.

Here they are ready to go. Austin wasn't quite up to the task this year.


Aren't they cute munchkins!
The second hunt is a treasure hunt which mom did around the neighborhood this year and ends with a huge basket full of goodies that they kids all get to divide and share. The last egg hunt is the one egg for adults and one egg for kids with $$$ in it. This year the Gray's swept the big money egg. I found the adult egg and Rylee found the kid egg. Wahoo! It's about time, those Nelson cousins usually take it all!

Sunday Rylee refused to wear her Easter dress and at the last minute decided to wear this cute number.

It's awfully sweet because it was MINE when I was four or five!

After church the kids found that the Easter bunny did make a visit to our home. Thank goodness!

Mommy realized the Easter Bunny picked matchy outfits. That really was a coincidence.