Easter

This post is coming so late that I am having a hard time remembering all the details, but what I do know is that we DID have a wonderful Easter celebration at our house!  We started the festivities with the town egg hunt at Lion's Park on Saturday morning.  It was chaotic.  There were tons of people there and the space where they had Caden's age egg hunt was pretty small.  I think that there was a mis-fire/jump start on the behalf of a few over-anxious parents, which really put the egg hunt off to a bad start.  Regardless, Caden did happen to round up 3 eggs for his basket and ended up completely overwhelmed, from looking at the pictures, it was warranted.  He did amazingly well with the large characters that were wondering around the park, and had his picture taken with many of them.

Since my mom was in town for a visit, I took advantage of the extra hands and we prepared a HUGE Easter feast for Saturday dinner.  We figured that trying to get that large and delicious of a meal out on Sunday lunch would be a little crazy, and it would have been.  We had Brad's co-worker, who is Canadian and doesn't have family around, over to join us... known around here as Uncle Kevin.  He's great with kids and likes to drink Brad's beer, so our door is always open to him.  :)

Sunday we woke up to Easter Baskets and eggs hidden in the yard, yes, even though we live in the Midwest, they were IN THE YARD!  I really do despise indoor egg hunts.  It was chilly, probably in the 40's, and damp with dew, but we got out there and hunted eggs.  Caden unfortunately returned to his old egg hunting ways (don't get me started on that story.... again) and it took him a good 20 minutes to find 15 OBVIOUS eggs.  The reason is that he stops and opens every egg, sometimes insisting on eating what is in them, before continuing on with the search. (Thanks AGAIN Mom!). :p

We then headed out to church, which was pretty eventful being that the Fire Truck AND Police Car showed up.  Turns out someone accidentally activated the fire alarm.  We headed home for the leftovers from the feast the night before and a nap, which we ALL needed!

We ended up dying eggs the Monday after Easter, but it was still a lot of fun and TOTALLY messy!

Carsten's 1st Easter!

Pre egg hunt, see the eggs in the back, AND all the people waiting?

During the egg hunt, doesn't it seem chaotic?!?

How Carsten spent his time at Lion's Park

New swim trunks from the Easter Basket

EGGS!!!!!!!!!!

How Carsten spent his time during the egg hunt

I tried to get a picture of the 2 boys together, BUT, Caden really resisted which then spurred a 5 minute session of tickling himself with the evergreen (it was pretty entertaining).

Another shot at a pic of the boys

Yes, it was hard to get all the dye off his hand!