Easter Fun

This picture sums up our fantastic Easter this year, a relaxing day in the sun!

For the first year in a long time we celebrated just Easter.  We didn't have a themed Easter this year, probably because it wasn't suppose to be an event but ended up turning into one.  With both sets of Grandparents otherwise occupied by visitors in Chelan and Hawaiian vacations it was going to be a low key year.  In the end the sun came out and so did the family to pull together a simple little get together.  The sun shine really made the day, we played outside until it was dark.

The kids remembered it was Easter first thing and begged to go downstairs then they ran around finding eggs and eventually remembered to look for their baskets which were hidden well this year.

Easter Baskets full of fun and goodies!

Ben got a big blue egg!

McKenzie with silly putty - never again Easter Bunny!

As you can see in the picture above the Easter Bunny brought the kids Silly Putty this year.  What fun right?  You remember it as a kid and how fun it was to lift the print on a newspaper and play with.  What you don't remember was you Mom up late at night trying to get it out of multitudes of different types of fabric.  At least I wasn't alone in my misery, there are entire user forms online devoted to the best techniques for removing the stuff.

In the throws of the hunt for eggs and baskets!

Comparing their loot!  So much excitement over the baskets.

Releasing the cousins for the hunt.

I need to remember to take more pictures of the actual hunt but by that time I'm usually glad to sit and watch the kids running around hunting eggs in the yard.  This year our hiders did a better job then our hunters since we've found five eggs leftover out in the yard - all with money in them!  Another great Easter in the books.