Easter

I love Easter. It is my absolute favorite holiday. I love buying Easter candy and toys, I love dying boiled eggs, I love hiding plastic eggs for the kids to find, I love the look on their face as they open up an egg and find candy inside, I love spending the day with them, I love Easter dinner, and most of all I love celebrating the resurrection of my Saviour Jesus Christ. I know that Jesus Christ suffered for our sins, I know he sacrificed his very life for us, and I know that he rose glorious and triumphant on the third day. I am so grateful for this knowledge and that He opened up the way for me to return to Him and my Heavenly Father after my time on this earth is over and live with my sweet family for eternity. I am so blessed.

Adam and Caleb thoroughly enjoyed Easter. This is the first year that Adam actually understood what Easter was and he was so excited to start the festivities. Caleb had no idea what Easter was but watching him walk around and find Easter eggs filled with candy was priceless.

Adam was an expert egg dyer. He loved putting the eggs into the cups and watching them slowly change to red, yellow, blue, or green. Once Eric taught him that putting eggs in two different colors resulted in even more colors such as purple and orange we worried that we would be dying eggs all night. Look at that concentration.

Life is good as an egg dyer.

Adam with two army themed plastic eggs. Since we only have boys so far we always opt for the more manly looking eggs. I am sure that they will appreciate this later on in life.

Eating part of his chocolate bunny. He only managed to eat the ears before he got bored. Eric and I had to sacrifice and eat the rest. Poor parents.

Easter is AMAZING!

Caleb thinks his dad is AMAZING! He always runs to him when he comes home from work and he was so excited to sit on dad's lap while we dyed eggs. We tried helping him put eggs in the dye but this nearly resulted in liquid dye all over the floor so we just gave him some eggs to hold instead. He called them balls at first until he figured out that he could smash them on the table and have them crack open. We lost two of our dozen boiled eggs this way but he was so happy it didn't matter.

Life is good.

We bought these transformer candy necklaces for Adam but he, in normal Adam fashion, rejected them. Caleb thought they were wonderful and we couldn't get them off him for a long time. I don't even think he knew they were candy. He was just fascinated with the fact that they went on and off, on and off, on and off.

Caleb is at that age where if you find a plastic egg you don't put it in your basket, you sit down and eat the contents right away. I love that age. So cute. This is him with candy drooling down his face. What a happy boy!