Happy Easter, 2009!

This Easter was a bit different. We actually had Stake Conference fall on Easter Sunday this year, and it didn't start until 3pm. We had all morning to relax, have an Easter breakfast, egg hunt and just spend time together as a family. Then we all got dressed and headed down to the Ogden Tabernacle for Stake Conference. Let's just say, for future reference, Jeff and I have decided to swap babysitting between us for the adult session and main session of Stake Conference in the upcoming few years. The kids were pretty good for about the first half hour. After all, the Easter Bunny had left them some colored pencils and cute coloring books with their names and favorite things to color for church that day. But after that, the last hour and a half were pretty interesting... and we'll leave it at that. Here's how the morning went:

The Goods:

This face says it all:

Trying on his new hat:Now the funny part about this, is that the hats actually don't fit! Apparently, my boys have really big heads. These were sold in the toy section of Walmart, along with fireman hats, policeman hats, construction hats, etc. They're made for little kids, right? I guess my boys aren't little! Whatever. They can smoosh them on, and they're perfectly happy with that.

Breakfast. With toast, jam, milk and bananas. The kids had a lot more fun coloring these eggs a few nights before than they did actually eating them. Audrey really liked them, though. The boys liked the white parts. Sarah wouldn't touch it after she peeled it. But she had fun coloring and peeling!

And they're off!

On the hunt.

The handsome videographer (yes, we're all still in our pj's).

Can you guess what Lucas's favorite color is?

Audrey's catch. She kept getting distracted with what she could find inside the eggs...

Divvying up the loot. We had them all open up all their eggs and put the candy in a ziplock bag. Then, I sneakily snatched up all the eggs to put away for next year! I've learned in years past that the empty eggs are fun for a while, then they end up broken and underfoot about 100 times a day. So we left out the ones that they got from the city's egg hunt the day before. In all, there are probably a dozen of those eggs out right now instead of about 5 dozen. Much less mess...

Candy happy.

Here are the girls in their cute Easter skirts. They've been their cute Easter skirts for 3 years! Sarah's still fits from the first year (she's still super skinny!), and I had enough extra fabric to make Audrey one last year. Hers fit perfectly this year. I didn't take very many pictures of this outfit because I have tons in the same outfits already. They actually had their little white hats to go with. But those were put back in the closet as soon as we got home so they can be modified for next week's "real" Easter dresses. (I'm making their 2009 Easter dresses to wear to our ward meetings next week.)


After Stake Conference, the boys went straight to bed. Audrey and Sarah hung around for a bit while I made dinner for Jeff and I. Sarah worked on her reading with some help from Papa and her flashcards. She also impressed Jeff with how much she knew about all the different states, and who lived in each one. She's becoming quite the proficient little reader lately.

The dinner. Roast and mashed potatoes with homemade rolls, peas and gravy. Mmmm...

My favorite part of Easter Sunday this year. We didn't plan this nice candlelight dinner. It really just happened to work out this way. But Jeff and I put on some Jazz music, sat alone in the twilight and watched the sunset behind the distant mountains through our kitchen window while we enjoyed a quiet meal together. It was like we were on a date in our own home! All the kids were in bed, and nothing interrupted. Ahhhhhh... Happy Easter.


Here are a few of my favorites from the city's Easter Egg hunt. We went when we lived in Laveen, and it was a very enjoyable, fun time. So when we heard Pleasant View was putting one on, we had to participate! We even saw a few friends there.