Easter Fun!!

Hippity, Hoppity Easter is here and gone!! My girls love all the fun activities that come along with Easter. They scope out all the places in our house that the Easter Bunny might hide their baskets, love picking out their new Sunday dresses, can't wait for the egg hunts, and live for Monkey Bread. This year was another fun Easter despite the cold weather for our Neighborhood Egg Hunt. We had it the weekend before Easter and we woke up to a massive snow storm! We thought for sure they would cancel it but no, our good neighbors shoveled their lawns and went forth with the egg hunt. We bundled the kids up and off we went searching for eggs. It was cccccoooollllldddd!!

Easter weekend was better weather (sort of). Instead of snow we had rain and wind, but again that didn't stop us from enjoying our Easter traditions. Saturday we made our favorite Monkey Bread. We started this tradition while living in Oregon. We had some cute neighbors up there that made it for their family egg hunt and invited us each year. It is so yummy!! Then it was time for egg dying. Brinley giggled the entire time dying eggs. She thinks it's so cool that they can change colors.

After dying the eggs, it was off to Grandpa Dowdle's for dinner and another egg hunt. We finished the hunt just in the nick of time. The last couple minutes it started raining. We're not sure we found all the eggs, we think there may still be eggs in Grandpa's gardens. I'm sure he'll find them sooner or later!

After this egg hunt it was time to see what everyone got. It was a competition with the cousins to see who got the most money and candy. Guess who always wins...Baylee.

Finally it was time for Easter morning. The girls searched our house up and down for their baskets. Rylee's was in the shower (that's where she hides to mess her pants), Brinley's was where the garbage is, and Baylee's was hidden deep in the coat closet. Silly Bunny (those are Ry Ry's words).

It was then time to get dressed up like a "Ballabina" (again Ry Ry's words) that would be a ballerina. The girls loved their new dresses. However it was almost impossible to get a good picture of these 3. Baylee smiled perfectly, Brinley kept pulling faces and Rylee wanted to sing the ABC's instead of holding still for her picture. O-well, they're still cute anyway!!

After attending church we went to dinner and yes another egg hunt at Aunt Judy's house with my side of the family. Dinner was delicious and can I say that we had so much food that we could have fed everyone on the block--twice! It was sooooo very good though. This family loves deviled eggs. We fight over who gets them and how many we can have. Baylee has caught on to this quickly. She would eat a whole plate herself!!

Rylee likes them too!!

YUMMY!!

After stuffing ourselves with so much yummy food we headed outside for our final egg hunt. There was over $100.00 in these eggs, so the competition was on. Baylee kicked off her new dress shoes and was ready to go. She wanted to win this hunt too. Her older cousin Ryan walked away with the most this time. He did not want to be beat again by a 7 year old like last year when he walked away with only .12 cents! Baylee did OK though. She came home with $12.00. Go Bay!!

We had a fun week and a wonderful Easter. It's a great blessing to be so close to family. We are really lucky to have such special people in our lives and great examples. Even with all the fun and games at Easter time, we can't forget the most important example to us, our Savior Jesus Christ. I am thankful for the sacrifices He has made for us!! We hope you had a great Easter also.