Hippity Hop

An update!...A fast one...

Easter isn't a huge holiday around here, but we do love us some competitive egg hunting and chocolate bunnies. So Saturday morning the City of Killdeer did an Easter egg hunt for the kids, and we had to go. They split them up into two groups, one for the older kids, and one for the younger kids. Matt went with Bennett to the park for his hunt, and I took Patton and Kennedy to the nursing home for theirs. And holy cow. These eggs were the big ones, and each big egg had like, four good chocolate candy bars inside. And each child got like, seventeen eggs. You do the math. It was a morning well spent.

Patton, getting after it.

Kennedy, getting in on the action.

"What are these things?"

Because Matt was with Bennett we didn't get as many pictures of his hunt. But he made a pretty good haul himself.

That same day it was Conference, so we headed straight home from the egg hunt to eat our candy and be spiritually fed as well. I love Conference. And I actually heard quite a bit this year as well. Our kids must be getting better at causing chaos quietly. This is Bennett and Patton sitting on my lap during the Saturday afternoon session and making each other laugh. They are such good friends and such good little boys.

That night, the kids and I went over to our friends' home to eat dinner and dye Easter eggs while the men went to the Priesthood session of Conference.

We discovered that if you use a wire whisk to hold the eggs while they are dyeing it works a lot better and with a lot less mess. Which is good, considering the crowd we were working with. Exhibit A pictured above.

Exhibit B

The finished eggs. Patton's are on the top, Bennett's are on the bottom.

 Cute eggs I decoupaged with the kit my parents sent us in our Easter package. Thanks, Mom and Dad!

The next day was Easter Sunday, so the kids woke up to find their baskets the Easter Bunny had hid (why there are no pictures of this, I'm not sure) and then we had friends over for the traditional Conference Morning Brunch. It was delicious and a good time was had by all.

Happy Easter!...one month late...