We had a whole weekend of family fun for Easter this year. It was soooo nice to have so much family time!
Ever since John started working out here he’s had Good Friday off, so we planned a trip to Port Discovery for the kids. It was still pretty busy because it was everyone else’s spring break, but it wasn’t too crowded and we still spent a good 4 hours there.
They still had the Thomas exhibit up, so that was really fun for the boys.
Saturday we had some Easter activities. After lunch we decorated cookies. Well, Nathan decorated cookies and Spencer ate his way steadily through his supply of frosting and sprinkles. And maybe a cookie. Or two.
After we got them all hopped up on sugar we put them down for naps and quiet time (Parenting Win – “You just go sleep all that off, buddy”). After that we got them all set up to color eggs. It was a little tricky with Spencer, I was mostly trying to make sure he didn’t spill all the colors all over the place and I only had one whisk that could fit the egg inside and into the jars we use for the color. We did come up with the idea to color on the eggs with crayons and he seemed to like that.
I’d only boiled a dozen eggs so we finished with that pretty quickly. John ended up taking the boys to the playground afterwards to get some extra energy out and so that I could work on dinner. Spencer came back looking like a chimney sweep, he’d faceplanted in the dirt so many times – good thing they were getting baths!
Easter morning the boys got to open up their “Easter presents”. They mostly got books (I really didn’t make an effort on candy – I’m hitting up the Easter clearance tomorrow, I’ve been waiting ALL YEAR for my starburst jelly beans!!) They also got matching Easter ties – because matching ties is seriously one of my most favorite things about having boys ;) John even got one too!
And I tried SO HARD to get a cute Easter picture of them matching. SO HARD friends. My kids are impossible ;)
I thought maybe adding John would help. Nope.
So we tried again later. We got some pretty hilarious ones though.
They amazingly kept their hats on at church. Nathan actually loved his and didn’t want to take his off and now that Spencer wants to be just like Nathan, well, that helped, haha.
We had a busy day at church and then we went over to some friends for an Easter egg hunt and a potluck dinner. (I forgot my camera for the egg hunt! so sad! But John strapped his GoPro to Nathan’s head for the egg hunt so we have some exclusive footage from his point of view). Then they basically had candy for dinner. And some strawberries. ;)
It has been such a fun weekend and looking at these pictures as I’ve been working on this post makes me so grateful for this crazy little family of mine. And I am so grateful for a Savior and Redeemer who made it possible to live again with our loved ones. I know He lives!
Happy Easter!
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