Monday, April 4, 2016

Easter 2016


 Spring!  Easter!  Joy!  This time of year is so great.  It also means that summer is just around the corner! Our Easter this year was very nice.  Amidst the chaos and busyness of our soccer Saturday, we made the time to dye some eggs which is always a favorite at our house.  This year we attempted a new technique and it's a keeper (thank you Martha Stewart). We put various textured things like rice, beans, or corn in cups and then added a few drops of dye and swished them around.  Then we put eggs in the cups and swirled them a bit, and...magic!  Beautiful colors and patterns abound with a flick of the wrist.  I thought they were so pretty and not nearly so messy as other crazy things you can do to try to get eggs to look spectacular.  We'll do it again for sure.

 
 

Easter Sunday was both fun and spiritual.  We try hard to make sure the boys know what the holiday is REALLY for.  Celebrating the resurrection of our Savior is the reason for the eggs (I love the symbolism) and the special dinner and all the FHE lessons we do on the atonement and Jesus throughout the month.  Easter is such a wonderful holiday with so much meaning and love behind it and I love spending this day with my boys.  Church was nice and the boys all looked handsome to boot.  

 
Of course, on Easter morning, the boys found a basket (this year in the form of an outdoor butterfly net, and a new bike helmet for D) with prizes, plastic eggs filled with treats and a mound of Easter grass (that I'll still somehow find bits of 6 months from now).  Dawson had some good times with jelly beans and Easter grass.  It was hilarious to watch him and he could hardly believe his luck when the plastic eggs opened up and little jelly belly's poured out.  Yay for jelly beans!


Happy Easter 2016!

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