Easter 2012

Easter was fabulous! Here's a bunch of photos and videos...

Becca was so excited to get a bag stuffed full of Easter goodies from her preschool teacher on Wednesday- and Becca is so sweet about sharing... as she examined everything in her bag of treats, she kept setting aside special items for each of her siblings :)

I threw together some little Easter bags for the girls I visit teach - inside I put plastic Easter eggs filled with little candies and Easter quotes from the Prophets

We had family movie night on Friday- Ben put out the inflatable mattress and the kids got extra comfy. We watched Tin Tin and ate rice krispie treats with Easter m&m's. Family movie night is definitely our favorite family tradition - Ben couldn't resist sticking his fingers in Emma's face when I took a picture...


On Saturday, our community did a Easter egg hunt - it was supposed to start at 10:30 and we arrived at 10:32, and we missed it. But the kids weren't as disappointed as I feared they'd be because they were quickly appeased by donuts, soda, bouncy houses, and face painting :)



The kids going down the inflatable slide... from my perspective :)






That afternoon we went to the water park... again. It's our new favorite hangout...



Look at that cute bum



Now that we've been several times to the water park, Emma's comfortable waiting in lines and going on the bigger slides on her own (which is helpful especially when I'm there without Ben and I have to stay with the smaller kids who can't ride)...





Water park induced exhaustion

Easter day was really fun and really busy. As breakfast was being prepared, the kids discovered that the Easter bunny had left them goodies in the backyard...






The kids dyed Easter eggs as Ben finished up making Easter egg pancakes :)





Claire loves jelly beans




Easter family picture at church...


Later we had an egg hunt at Grandma's and more pictures...














I thought it would be fun to do an "egg drop" on Easter - so we set some rules and designed some egg contraptions. Emma and Ben really enjoyed this project. Emma designed her own!





Ready to drop!








Ben always seems to have children climbing on him...


Happy Easter!