easter

i almost didn't do anything for easter this year. the easter bunny visits our house friday night, because we want to keep easter sunday about the savior.
in the last 3 moves, all of the easter baskets have disappeared. not permanently, but it's going to require going through all of the boxes and organizing them to find them all. that was part of my lack of desire to do anything. i already had all treats and things, but i didn't know if it was going to be worth it.

on thursday, i "boiled" eggs.
saturday morning, the ward had an easter egg hunt. since we couldn't find the easter baskets, and i wanted the kids to have something more than grocery bags, i ran to the dollar store to find some buckets. the hunt would have been more fun if 3 kids hadn't found the majority of the eggs. taylor, my angel, shared some of his with his little sisters. otherwise, they wouldn't have gotten any.
saturday afternoon, we decorated the eggs using these.

it was fun and fairly painless. these are the little girls' hands, and this was the worst of the damage! i had gotten 3 packages, and we only used one. i'm putting the others up for next year.

 shannon

 ashley

 all of our beautiful eggs.

 ashleys'. she had a little help with the blue and pink striped one.

 elizabeths'.

 taylors'. very minimalistic

 shannons'.

mama's. there was one extra eggs, and i decided to it.

sunday morning, elizaeth came into my bedroom first thing, and complained that the easter bunny didn't come. 

we got everyone ready for church and raced out the door. after sacrament, shaun decided that he and ashley should go back home. he wasn't feeling great and she still had a cough. when i brought them home, i put michael in bed, and put the baskets together. then i went back to church .