Happy Easter!

 Happy Easter!  We had a good time celebrating this season.  To start off the day, we headed to the Hyrum City Easter Egg Hunt.  Emily and I were helping with the Hunt as part of the Hyrum Youth Council.

The youth are so fun to work with.  They liked throwing out the candy throughout the field and then policing the lines to make sure no kids were sneaking under the ropes.  When the clock hit 9:00, the horn blew and the kids were off to gather the candy.  

Charlotte and Brooklyn got a lot of candy eggs and loved all gathering everything up.  It is amazing that it took us about a half hour to scatter all of the eggs for the kids and about 2 minutes for it to get all snatched up by the kids.  

When we got home, we got to see everything the Easter Bunny left us. 

Each of the kids got some candy and a new book to read.  

Next we colored our Easter Eggs.  This is always a fun time.  The weather had been so nice lately that I decided we should color the eggs outside.

The eggs always turn out so colorful and festive. It was a good thing to do it outside too because dying eggs is always to messy.  Its a good messy though.  

After coloring eggs, we took a walk up to the park for a picnic.  Easter picnics are something I remember doing every year as a kid.   We would take a lunch and head up to Snow Canyon State Park (before it was a state park) and enjoy time together with my Morwood cousins. We would all play a fun game of baseball and roll our eggs down the hills to see whose would last the longest.  These are definitely core memories for me so when the kids said they had never rolled their Easter eggs down a hill before, I knew I had failed as a mother.  So I had to teach them the ways of egg races.

I don't know if they truly appreciated rolling an Easter Egg down the hill but I loved it.  Poor Logan, his egg did not survive and blew apart.  He was pretty mad because he really wanted to eat the egg.  Ha Ha the joys of rolling eggs.  At least it was in the grass and not the red dirt of Snow Canyon.

Then we had another Easter Egg hunt at home. 

Once again the eggs were cleaned up really quickly.  If only they will clean their rooms that fast... Anyway we had a great day.  We spent the rest of the day hanging out on the trampoline and just relaxing in the sunshine.  I like these memory filled chill days.