Easter

This year, with Chris working and General Conference, Easter was a little strange for us. The Easter dresses were a little bit of a waste this year since they had to wear them the week before Easter. Oh well, I can't ever complain about fancy new dresses!


The Monday before Easter we had an Easter-themed Family Home Evening. As I was getting ready to explain the Easter story to the kids, I happened to ask if either of them could tell me anything about it. Molly proceeded to regurgitate the entire Easter story, complete with death on the cross and resurrection. Not only was I impressed that she knew it, I was impressed that her attention span in primary was long enough to pick up all the details! Our activity that night was dyeing eggs. Luckily the kit came with stickers and crayons in addition to the dye because Claire had to have many dye "time-outs." She had to have her hands constantly in the dye, and I think at one point I caught her drinking it. We also went to the Easter Pageant at the temple that week, and Molly was totally mesmerized. Claire mostly entertained the people in the row behind us. The kids really were troopers though, considering the pageant didn't even start until an hour past bedtime. After the pageant we were able to get over to the Visitor's Center to catch up with Chris's old mission president, President White. He has just been called to be the Visitor's Center president.




Molly's preschool had an Easter party, and I had to take this picture because Gunner, the boy who is madly in love with Molly, is sitting just to the right of her. Last week he told Molly he was going to marry her. I told Molly to tell him to back off and wait a few years, and she stomped her foot and said "Yeah! I'm just a KID! I'm telling him that TOMORROW!"




Claire got to be involved in the Easter Egg hunt, too. My mother-in-law Kathy made the awesome skirts the girls are wearing. Molly decided to pair the skirt with the Puma's, not me.


Once again, Gunner sitting next to Molly. He and Claire actually had a little altercation over who would get to sit there, and Gunner obviously won.


Molly is definitely the tallest in her class. She just had a well check a couple of weeks ago and she is in the 90th percentile for height!

The Easter Bunny brought our baskets Saturday morning since Chris would be gone Sunday morning. Molly expressed quite a bit of concern about the Easter Bunny coming into the house, so we decided to leave the baskets outside the front door for him to fill so he wouldn't have to come in.


Molly took her eyes off her basket for a minute and Claire shoveled in as many jelly beans as she could before she got caught.


We spent Easter at my parent's. It was such a lazy day that the kids never got out of their jammies (neither did I, but that's pretty typical for me these days). But we definitely had some incredible food; my mom made cinnamon rolls and orange rolls for breakfast and my dad smoked ribs for dinner.


My poor dad trying to keep the kids occupied during conference.


The annual Easter Egg Hunt!