Easter Saturday was crazy this year! We had so much going on. Our ward did a sunrise breakfast/devotional and Steve and the kids went to that while I was finishing making orange rolls for a baptism. They got home and everyone got cleaned up and the girls and I headed out the door to the baptism while waving goodbye to the boys who were headed off to a soccer game. After the baptism we went to the luncheon for a minute and then rushed home in time to do our little Easter Egg Hunt. I really didn't know how we were going to get it all in because we had to be up to a wedding luncheon an hour later and then Steve would be late getting to the temple after the luncheon. So to make it all work out we had to dash a few dreams.
I was telling the kids a few days before not to expect the Easter Bunny to bring them a little present because they just got new tennis shoes and church shoes instead. Seth winked at me and said he already knew. I asked him what he knew and he said Dad had already told him that the easter bunny and tooth fairy and all that weren't real. Truthfully he has questioned it since he was 2. But Damen is a boy full of faith and still believed. In fact he said "there's no way the Easter Bunny isn't real. He came last year when we were all working out front." Oh I love his loyal faith. Well I put Steve in charge of putting all the stuff out before they went to their game and he ended up recruiting help. Damen wanted to just keep reading, hoping for all hope that if he didn't help then it wouldn't make the Easter Bunny a thing of the past. But Steve sat him down and told him there's a time and place to be excited for finding but there's and excitement that comes in hiding the eggs and watching as others are excited to find what you hid for them. So they all went to hide eggs. Steve did take 10 eggs and hid them in really hard places for the boys to find and they enjoyed that just as much. But I loved watching their excitement in helping the girls find their eggs. It was a lot of fun and yet a little bittersweet knowing they have now outgrown that stage of their lives. Here's a few pictures of the hunt.
I was telling the kids a few days before not to expect the Easter Bunny to bring them a little present because they just got new tennis shoes and church shoes instead. Seth winked at me and said he already knew. I asked him what he knew and he said Dad had already told him that the easter bunny and tooth fairy and all that weren't real. Truthfully he has questioned it since he was 2. But Damen is a boy full of faith and still believed. In fact he said "there's no way the Easter Bunny isn't real. He came last year when we were all working out front." Oh I love his loyal faith. Well I put Steve in charge of putting all the stuff out before they went to their game and he ended up recruiting help. Damen wanted to just keep reading, hoping for all hope that if he didn't help then it wouldn't make the Easter Bunny a thing of the past. But Steve sat him down and told him there's a time and place to be excited for finding but there's and excitement that comes in hiding the eggs and watching as others are excited to find what you hid for them. So they all went to hide eggs. Steve did take 10 eggs and hid them in really hard places for the boys to find and they enjoyed that just as much. But I loved watching their excitement in helping the girls find their eggs. It was a lot of fun and yet a little bittersweet knowing they have now outgrown that stage of their lives. Here's a few pictures of the hunt.
Doesn't this face tell it all.
The big boys after just finding the last of their hidden eggs
Seth was so cute and excited to help the girls find more and more eggs. He's such a great kid.
We had a great hunt and the kids didn't even have all their candy gone before we got back from the luncheon a few hours later.
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