Anyone Still Interested in Easter???

In keeping with my tradition of posting about a holiday several weeks after it has passed, here is the run-down of our Easter Festivities, only a couple weeks late!

We started the fun this year with an Easter Egg Hunt play date with some friends from church. Our ward boundaries recently got changed and we ended up in a different ward, so it was nice getting together with some people we don't get to see on a regular basis anymore. (And honestly, I felt bad for missing our egg hunt at church because I got the dates mixed up!) Anyway, the kids had a blast and were very proud of all the eggs they collected!

Here is the gang ready to hunt for eggs. It was a chilly, but sunny day!

Going for a green egg...surprise, surprise!

So impressed with the number of eggs she found!

Checking out the goods.

Next event: Visit and Photo with the Easter Bunny

Can you tell Allison isn't a big fan? Tyler loves him, however, and was more than eager to tell him what he'd like in his Easter basket!

Easter had finally arrived and now it was time for Tyler and Allison to search for their Easter baskets!

Yay! Here they are!!!

Look what he left me! Can you believe it Tyler?!

This was the best picture I could get of the two of them with their baskets, and I made SEVERAL attempts! It's difficult to look at the camera and smile when there is a basket full of goodies sitting right next to you just screaming to be opened!

Easter Day Event #2: Easter Egg Hunt with cousins.

After church, we went over to Grandma and Pawpaw Hamby's house for dinner and another egg hunt!
Side note: At church, Tyler got to go up and sing with the Primary kids for the very first time! He worked hard practicing the song, "He Sent His Son." Everytime we were in the car, he would ask me to play "love and tenderness" on the Primary Songs CD. He did an excellent job remembering all the words that day, and this proud Mommy thought it was the most precious thing ever!

Miss Allison LOVED looking for eggs and was quite posessive over her basket (which was quite the same for her basket from the Easter Bunny too - she wanted all contents left INSIDE the basket and all hands off)!

I had to do a bit of a posed shot with Tyler because he was zooming around so quickly collecting eggs that I wasn't able to get him actually grabbing one.

He finally stopped in one place to count his eggs once the hunt was over.

After the egg hunt, we had a yummy Easter Dinner complete with ham, mashed potatoes, deviled eggs, green beans, broccoli salad, and green jello salad.
Then it was time for MORE Easter goodies, this time from all the grandparents.

First up were the Easter pails from Grandma and Grandpa Tholkes:

Then onto the goodie bags from Grandma and Pawpaw Hamby:

And last, but certainly not least, were the Easter gifts from Grandma and Grandpa Hadley:

(This gift was for the two of them together.)
What loved little kids they are!!! Thanks so much for all of the neat stuff!