Easter

Easter was a little spread out this year!  Casey and Blake had plans to go to Smith Center on the actual holiday, so we decided to celebrate with my family on April 1st.  We all showed up at mom and dad's after the kids woke up from naps (so about 4ish) and then started the Easter egg hunt.  

The kids found their baskets first...

And the hunt for the eggs began!  Katy caught on pretty quick and easily found as many as Lane did.  They had to check out how many the other one found!

Once Katy discovered that there was candy in the plastic eggs, there was no stopping her.  She opened the candy as fast as she could and stuffed it all in her mouth!  I let her have a little bit of fun before taking the rest away.

What is it about hard-boiled eggs and needing to throw them?  Years ago, us kids got in trouble at Grandma Jost's house for throwing hard-boiled eggs all over the attic (we think Bailey was the instigator!) and again, we just couldn't help ourselves (but at least we were outside this time!).  Katy thought it was pretty neat to throw the eggs and watch them explode.

We spent a little more time outside before going in for supper - ham steaks and lots of other yummy food!

Yesterday we celebrated with the Farralls at Brent and Christi's.  After a filling lunch of bbq'd ribs, we had another egg hunt where Katy ate even more candy and basically just hung out all afternoon.  The highlight for the kids was the trampoline:

I tried to get Katy to lay down in her pack and play for a nap, but she just kept saying "hop, hop, hop."  She just wanted to go outside and "hop."

Other activities for the week included me being room mother for Lane's preschool party and participating in the Henderson egg hunt (Katy got a TON of candy at that!).  We also did a few Easter crafts/activities to incorporate the true meaning of Easter.  Lane really liked the Resurrection eggs and making crosses to put in the window.  However, he still asked more questions about the Easter bunny than he did about Jesus/the cross, so we still have some work to do ;)