Happy Easter!!

 Happy Easter from us!  We had a great and very busy day on Easter!

We started out waking up at 6am to get up, shower and have Easter baskets.  

We attended the 7:30am Easter service at church together as a family and then working the 9am service. 

 Dan brought along our Resurrection Eggs and he worked through all 12 eggs with our class - having a kid come up and open the next one, having them take a stab at explaining what was inside and reading the corresponding verse that goes along with it - then Dan talked a little bit about each one!  It was great and he did a great job - and it's a really good way to walk through the highlights of the Passover/Good Friday/Easter stories!

 The Thursday before Easter we had Sarah, Max, Grammy and Grandad over to decorate Easter Eggs!  Our kids had never decorated them overseas - I don't think.  The eggs in Thailand were brown (so no decorating them) and in Kuwait they were white, but still had chicken poop and feathers on them, so I didn't really want to hard boil them!

 They turned out so pretty!

 Our sweet kiddos ready for church!

 Our Family after church on the hillside

Me and my Easter Tweeter

We ran home to finish making things for Easter lunch and then went to Tasha and Todd's home to celebrate!  They are so kind to host this group for the last couple of years and this year we were able to join them!  We had lots of delicious food, lots of great conversation and lots of extended families!

I made homemade hummus and veggies and then lemon bars and chocolate chip shortbread cookies for dessert!

Our Family

 Megan and Mary Kate

 Dan had to head out from there to a week of training!  In his awesome truck!

 The kids and I stayed to enjoy the traditional Easter Egg hunt :)  Sharon and Dick were so kind to fill all the eggs for all the kiddos!  They had the little boys go first (the 3 and under crowd) and then the big kids got to hunt (the 5-13 year olds)!  Todd hid them WELL!  They were HARD to find!

The big kids got to find 4 and then come back and when everyone had found 4, then they could all go find 4 more and then more if they could find them!  There was one "golden egg" and it was found by Porter for the 2nd year in a row!

 Me and Megan

 Me and Jack

 Me and Kylie

Getting instructions from Dick on where the golden egg could be!

 Then I came inside and found these two sound asleep on the sofa :)  Just for a couple of minutes, but I'm sure it was much needed!

 These 4 cute boys play well together - and play hard together!  Jack LOVED being over at Stone and Porter's - playing hockey in the basement, playing outside on the playground, shooting hoops - so fun!

And these cute girls posted this later that day - yay for cousins!!!