Easter 2015

We celebrated Easter all weekend long. 

We started Saturday morning with just our little family at our house.  We made resurrection rolls for breakfast, hunted for resurrection eggs, then sent the kids on a treasure hunt for their baskets.

Resurrection eggs.  Joshua opened the first one up which had a palm branch in it and he immediately

started waving it and saying, "hosanna!"  My heart was so happy to see that he had retained the information we had been learning the weeks leading up to Easter. 

 

Next up was a treasure hunt to find their baskets.  We should have explained this better to Joshua.  He was expecting the eggs to have treats in them not paper clues.  He was a little disappointed.  Meanwhile, Kayla happened to see the baskets before the hunt even started so she was crying, "treat, treat" the whole time.  But they both pulled themselves together and all was more than okay once their baskets were found.

This pictures cracks me up.  The final clue was, "Where does Mommy bake muffins?"  Joshua ran to the oven, looked on top, looked on the counter on the left, then the right.  Meanwhile Kayla is looking at the baskets. 

He finally owns his own copy of the Land Before Time. Right when he saw it he picked it up and hugged it.  I think it was his favorite item. 

Kayla's favorite thing was her chap stick.   

 

 

Then we got ready for the day and headed out to Aunt Diane's house for lots of fun with the extended family.  Joshua was beyond excited to see his cousins.  The night before he joyfully told us, "it's bedtime!!!!"  It wasn't quite bedtime yet and he couldn't have been that tired since he took a 3 hour nap and had only been up for about 2 hours.  We tell him that time goes by faster when you sleep so he just wanted to get to sleep so the next day would come!

 

Joshua sure does love his big cousins.  He has even named two

of his stuffed animals after them.

 

They love wrestling and the older kids are so good with the little kids.  Here they are letting the littles tackle them.  

 

Kayla really enjoyed dying eggs.  She kept stirring and checking her egg.  She tried tasting the water a few times.  When we would tell her no she would say, "Tend?" (pretend).  By the end her hands were all pink from sticking them both in the dye.

 

 The hunt is on!

Love his face! 

 

 

 

After their egg hunt the kids wanted to hide the eggs for the adults to find. 

Daddy on his egg hunt.

Kayla sharing and Easter Egg with Great Grandpa Lutze.

 

Both kids missed their naps in order to be able to partake in all the festivities.  Around 3:30 Joshua told me, "I am ready for a nap now."  Then he cried because he couldn't take one since we were getting ready to leave.  When I told Kayla we were going to go home she said, "night night!"  I love that we have kids who love their sleep.

She passed out before we were even out of the neighborhood.

 

We spent the next day at my Mom's house with more food, egg dying and Easter egg hunts.   

 

Here are my two cute little helpers helping me make whip cream for Easter dessert.

 

We gotta taste test everything to make sure it is good.

 

My best attempt at getting some cute Easter Pictures.  Everyone was much more interested in eating the jelly beans I bribed them with. 

 

 

Coloring eggs with Aunt Brooke.

 

 Hunting for eggs.

 

Easter always reminds me of these two memories....

Kayla's first Easter, only 3 days only.

And the Easter Joshua decided to go hiking in Omah and Papa's backyard and when we went to check on him he was no where to be found.  After several minutes of panicking (which felt like hours) we found him watching an old black and white movie with G.G. 

 

Such a fun time celebrating this special holiday and all that Jesus accomplished for us on the cross!