Easter Saturday

We try to get all the secular Easter activities taken care of on Saturday so we can leave Sunday open for a nice, calm day of church and family. It seems to work out well, except this year we had to bump the egg hunt to Sunday because the weather was so poor on Saturday.

I know I have mentioned this before, but there is no Easter bunny at our house. I just don't see the point. We do have Easter baskets though (so don't feel bad for the kiddos) and this year we decided to hide D's basket and have him go on a treasure hunt to find it. He absolutely LOVED it. Since D doesn't like most candy (are you surprised?) our baskets are a little more, er, unconventional. We threw a couple little things in D's basket for Snacks too, but as you can see in the picture below, he didn't care. He was completely content playing with D's first treasure hunt clue. Babies are so weird!

Here is Snacks, stoked on a piece of paper (pay no attention to the cute little book or stuffed toy...).

D on the other hand was very excited to get some new little readers. (Notice Snacks in the background - after about five minutes of intense paper shaking, he got bored and was just rolling around the family room haphazardly.)

D also got a cool kite! Hopefully we can try it out very soon!

After the baskets, breakfast, and brother in bed (Snacks), it was time to move on to egg coloring - a highly anticipated activity for D. I didn't make the connection until later, but D came into my room earlier in the morning with his bag of markers and asked me when we were going to color the eggs. The whole time he thought that we were going to actually color the eggs with markers. When we were done dyeing the eggs he asked me again when we were going to color the eggs and that's when I realized what he thought was going to happen. It was pretty cute.

D waiting for the eggs to pretty up

I don't remember what was going on in this picture. D probably said something silly.

This is Paul's favorite picture from the activity. He thinks it looks like it could be a movie poster...or the front page of a newspaper - "Unimpressed boy colors dazzling yellow Easter egg while equally unimpressed father observes in the background". Sounds like a headliner to me!

This is my favorite picture. Happy Easter indeed!

And lastly, this is what your eggs will look like if you buy an 18-pack of BROWN EGGS. Whoops!!!!! Chartreuse anyone??