Easter

Easter was fun this year.  The kids are finally old enough to enjoy the excitement of the Easter Bunny and Mykelle is old enough to be interested in the Resurrection.  Adam spontaneously told the story of Easter to the kids and Mykelle hasn't let it go since.  She has several times brought up that Jesus was dead once, but he only died once and then came back to life three days later.  So now we only have to die once and then we can live forever with him and our families.  Isn't that a cute understanding?  A little side note: Mykee was upset at her Joy School teacher on Monday because she said Mykelle only had one brother.  But Mykee has TWO brothers, Evan and Jesus, as she often likes to say.  I tried to explain to her that the teacher wasn't being mean but only talking about her brother Evan.

Mykelle was scared of the bunny... Can you blame her??

The actual Easter morning and egg/basket hunt were kind of anticlimactic.  I expected my kids to be more excited when they woke up Sunday morning to find all of the eggs and their baskets we had hidden the night before.  As it was, they were excited but it passed quickly and they were only interested in how much candy they could stuff in their bellies before we decided to take the candy away and ration it out.  By the way, they ate A LOT!  They could have cared less about the clothes they received, or the coloring books.  But they did like their egg-suckers and marshmallow soccer balls.

Chocolate bunny!

I have to thank Grandma Roxie for the fun Easter package she sent (and Papa Mike too!).  The eggs with candy and money in them were a large part of the Sunday morning fun.  Plus, there were some surprises for Mom and Dad too!  Evan is really into coins and was very excited to find "treasure" in some of his eggs.

Making Easter decorations, compliments of Nana Anne

She liked to peel the back off of the stickers, stick them on the foam, and then glue the backs onto the top of the stickers.

Dyeing eggs!

Evan and Mykelle probably had more fun on Saturday at our ward Easter/Primary activity.  The Primary kids were rewarded for reading their scriptures every night- they had filled up 1/3 of the bulletin board with little fish with their names on it and for each third they earn an activity.  It started with a craft of Jesus's tomb made out of paper plates with a section that rolls away so you can place little paper people in and around it while the story is told (pasted on the back).  It was cute, but chaotic with 35 kids in one small room trying to play with scissors, glue, and markers... Then, they watched the Easter movie while eating popcorn and afterward were allowed to search the church for candy/sticker filled Easter eggs (it was raining outside).  It was a good activity- spiritual, fun, and food was involved!

Evan and his best friend Johnny