We had a great Easter (and week prior). Holidays are so much fun with kids and I'm loving that Brooklyn gets excited about them now and I can plan fun things to do.
I love our ward, for many reasons, but one of them being all the fun things they do for moms and kids. Play group the Wednesday before Easter was an Easter egg hunt at the park. We combined with another ward, so there were lots of kids and eggs! Brooklyn loved caring her basket around and finding the eggs. I had to tell her to keep going and find more eggs because once she discovered there was candy in the egg she wanted to stop and eat it. Every kid got to find 10 eggs.
The Friday before Easter we had another Easter egg hunt, but this time it wasn't for candy, but for lunch. My friend Missy saw this idea on Pinterest and it was so fun! Each mom brought 8 eggs (for 8 kids) with a lunch item in it...I took pretzels...then we hid the eggs and the kids got to find them! There was 2 sandwiches, carrots, fish crackers, cheese, grapes, and a mini muffin in the eggs. We sat on blankets at the park in the shade and ate our lunch.
That afternoon we made and decorated Easter sugar cookies with my friend Jen. Brooklyn loved frosting and decorating her cookie (and eating lots of frosting/candy too).
Saturday morning there was a big Easter egg hunt, crafts, a bounce house, and the Easter bunny at John's school. I love that the University is so family oriented and does family-friendly things like this throughout the year.
Brooklyn thought it was pretty neat to stir the egg in her cup and Jake destroyed the egg I gave him and tried to shove it in his mouth, shells and all, as fast as he could before I cleaned him up.
Brooklyn and Jake found new pajamas from the Easter bunny on their beds that night. Brooklyn kept saying, "the Easter bunny brought me pajamas....that's so nice!"
We went to our friend's baby blessing, Nate and Kayla's little boy Nixon that morning. It was a really sweet blessing and afterwards they had everyone over for a yummy brunch.
Brooklyn's friends...
I'm so grateful for such great friends! I love these girls and their kids. It makes being away from family, especially on holidays, so much easier.
I love our ward, for many reasons, but one of them being all the fun things they do for moms and kids. Play group the Wednesday before Easter was an Easter egg hunt at the park. We combined with another ward, so there were lots of kids and eggs! Brooklyn loved caring her basket around and finding the eggs. I had to tell her to keep going and find more eggs because once she discovered there was candy in the egg she wanted to stop and eat it. Every kid got to find 10 eggs.
The Friday before Easter we had another Easter egg hunt, but this time it wasn't for candy, but for lunch. My friend Missy saw this idea on Pinterest and it was so fun! Each mom brought 8 eggs (for 8 kids) with a lunch item in it...I took pretzels...then we hid the eggs and the kids got to find them! There was 2 sandwiches, carrots, fish crackers, cheese, grapes, and a mini muffin in the eggs. We sat on blankets at the park in the shade and ate our lunch.
That afternoon we made and decorated Easter sugar cookies with my friend Jen. Brooklyn loved frosting and decorating her cookie (and eating lots of frosting/candy too).
Saturday morning there was a big Easter egg hunt, crafts, a bounce house, and the Easter bunny at John's school. I love that the University is so family oriented and does family-friendly things like this throughout the year.
lots of kids and lots of eggs!
Brooklyn and her buddy Parker
That night, after John got home from studying, we dyed our Easter eggs.
Brooklyn thought it was pretty neat to stir the egg in her cup and Jake destroyed the egg I gave him and tried to shove it in his mouth, shells and all, as fast as he could before I cleaned him up.
Brooklyn and Jake found new pajamas from the Easter bunny on their beds that night. Brooklyn kept saying, "the Easter bunny brought me pajamas....that's so nice!"
fresh and clean in their new jammies :)
John did an egg for each of us
The kids woke up on Easter to new outfits and basekts with candy, coloring books, crayons, an Easter book, and a truck and soccer ball for Jake.
We went to our friend's baby blessing, Nate and Kayla's little boy Nixon that morning. It was a really sweet blessing and afterwards they had everyone over for a yummy brunch.
Brooklyn and Lexi
Reese, Landon, and Brooklyn
Brooklyn's friends...
Seran, Nixon, Lexi, Parker, Reese, Brooklyn, Landon, and Carter (Jake was asleep)
I'm so grateful for such great friends! I love these girls and their kids. It makes being away from family, especially on holidays, so much easier.
Kiya, Kayla, Mandy, me, Kayla's cousin Emily, and Kandas
For Easter dinner we met some friends at the park by our house. Everyone brought something and it was so nice not to have to prepare a whole meal. The weather was perfect and we enjoyed everyone's company and ate great food!
I made deviled eggs....idea from Pinterest.
We also had ham, homemade rolls, salad, baked potatoes, cheese ball, and dessert.
Tal, Alison, and Brooklyn
Jackie, Austin, Owen, Blayre, Ryan, Ryan, and Kali
...and cute Paxton.
Wow Becky! What a fun Easter. You guys did so many awesome things. The outfits are adorable and the PJ's are a cute idea too.
ReplyDeleteThat is awesome Becky! I love their cute Easter outfits. I love B saying 'That's so nice.." Haha. You guys did a lot-it's nice to have so much support and activities to go to.
ReplyDeleteWhat a fun Easter Beck!! You did a lot of fun stuff! AZ reminds me a lot of Utah. Nice that you have such a big ward with lots of fun students. I LOVE the Pjs and the easter outfit. Really cute family picture. So fun. B's hair is so cute in her bed head photos LOL!
ReplyDeleteSOOO much fun! You inspire me to be a better mommy! I pull the "she's too little" card too often. I need to start those fun family traditions soon!!!
ReplyDeleteI am excited to join your fun ward soon!!! :) I love that we do have so many great friends and people around to share Holidays and our cute kids growing up with! Makes life away from family easier.
Looks like you had a really fun Easter weekend. Their church outfits are SO cute. And those pajamas...I have to go get some now. Where did you get those? Can you text me and let me know? I love those.
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