Easter Snapshots

Part of the fun for our kids living by both sets of grandparents is getting to do most holidays twice. It's somewhat exhausting for us parents, but our kids LOVE it! So here is easter egg hunt #1.

Piglet was so excited to look for eggs this year. This is the first egg she found. She's even telling me "Look Mom! 1 egg!"

We were watching our nephews while their parents were moving so we got to do the big hunt with them too. This cute boy didn't want to even look at the camera. He was to excited to see what was in his eggs. So cute!

The hard part about being older and doing these egg hunts with little kids is knowing when to stop hunting and let the little kids find the rest.

How awesome is his face! So much excitement over a jellybean.

And you can't have easter without dying eggs, right?! Well I suppose you can, but it's tradition!

Piglet kept trying to crack her egg on the rim of the cup. You can tell she was with us during our cooking co-op lesson on eggs! She finally figured it out though.

We used koolaid this year to dye our eggs. Some family members didn't think the colors were as bright as the little packets you get at the store, but I liked them cause they didn't stink like vinegar.

And EVERY year my dad does his token egg and EVERY year he draws a Starship Enterprise with white crayon before putting it in the dye. 

The following day we had easter egg hunt #2. Actually it was # 3.  We did a small one in the morning, but I was far too tired to take pictures and I'm pretty sure that if anyone saw what my kids looked like in the morning they would think that they were ferrel children and we would be turned into CPS. Just kidding . . . kind of! :)

This is a picture of Porkchop finding the golden egg. 

Here's Piglet shaking the eggs just to make sure there's something inside.

 Oh look! Babe found one too!

 This is the final haul! 131 eggs in all! Amazing! I can't take credit for this though. It was all my mom and sister. They even found big carrot shaped easter eggs and gave each of the kids 5 bucks! WHAT??!!!  Next year, I want in on the easter egg hunt! I'm just saying!

Aside from all the easter egg hunts, it was a great Easter with amazing food and family and a great Sunday at church reflecting on the Resurrection of our Savior, Jesus Christ who suffered all, that we might live again.

Easter Train

Today we went on a bit of a drive up north to go on an Easter Train. It's really just this SUPER old train that they do different holiday events on.

Look who's coming up the tracks! It looks like a bunny!

 The ceilings in the train cars were so incredibly tall. I mean, I'm short and all, but these were really tall.

 Aren't you glad we have the technology of air conditioning in todays day and age. Can you imaging this being the only thing to cool you down on a hot summers day trapped in a train car with tons of other people? No thank you!

 This is the conductor.  He actually owns and operates this whole train system. Pretty amazing.

 This is when the train started moving. The kids had never been on a train before so they were pretty excited.

 We were probably moving at about 5 mph, maybe, and went just a few miles to this open field. They had an Easter egg hunt for the kids.

 They did an easier one for the littles and then a more difficult one for the olders.

 Toward the back of the field and just beyond a small trail was this beautiful waterfall.

 So pretty!

 We couldn't have asked for more perfect weather. It was a little chilly, but otherwise wonderful.

 And on our train ride back this dude played his banjo while we sang along to songs like "I've Been Working on the Railroad" and "You are my sunshine." I may have embarrassed my family slightly by my enthusiasm. It's not my fault though! They just can't handle my sheer awesomeness! 

 We had a great time and now I think we need to take the kids on an Amtrak or something like that so they can see how fast a newer train goes. Anyways, I highly recommend this if you have something similar close by.