Easter Festivities

Easter is my absolute favorite holiday EVER! It is just such an emotional week where you go from sadness and despair at the crucifixion to absolute JOY on Easter Sunday when Christ is risen from the grave! I love it, and I love celebrating it :)

Our Easter celebrating started pretty early on April 12th at preschool. Every year, the kids get to dress up for the school Easter parade. The little guys put on their dads' dress shirts and ties, and the girls get to put on their fancy dress up clothes. They are absolutely precious, and I just adore this tradition!

The following week (during spring break), the boys and I dyed Easter eggs here at the house. It was a rainy day outside, and i figured it was the perfect activity! Both boys did a great job of not making a big mess, and they loved getting to decorate the eggs with Toy Story stickers once they dried. I thought they turned out really nicely :)

The next day, Saturday, was the Easter egg hunt at church. We got to do the Bunny Hop, sing some songs, and do some really neat crafts. After that, we went out to the playground where the boys racked up the eggs! They both filled up their buckets and had a lot of fun. After that, we ate lunch and then went home to relax for a little while before heading over to mimi-mama and grandaddy's house for some more Easter fun!

On Saturday afternoon, we made the short trip to my mom's house to do some more Easter activities. The boys got to dye eggs again with A.J. (because, apparently, I did not let them dye enough eggs!), and we got to make Resurrection Cookies which is something I hope to do every year and something I recommend all of you do with your kids. It's an activity I found to be very meaningful, and Kaden still talks about it now. After all that fun, we headed up to get ready for the Easter Bunny to come and for Easter Sunday!

Easter Sunday was a fabulous day! The boys woke up nice and early to see the goodies that were left for them by the Easter Bunny. We, of course, let them have some candy as an appetizer, but I did make breakfast before we got ready to go to church. Easter service was amazing, as it always is, and afterward we got some family pictures in front of the cross at church. After our busy morning, we got to enjoy lunch at my Grandaddy John's house where we ate ourselves silly and enjoyed another Easter egg hunt in his yard. My boys were pretty much experts by this point and were happy to find that these eggs for filled with candy and money :) Later that afternoon we headed home and lounged around the house in our food-induced comas for the rest of the evening.

I hope that you all had a wonderful, blessed Easter holiday!