Easter

It was a little weird having Easter in March this year, but we made the best of it! The 12 days before Easter, we started a countdown, reading about  a different part of the Easter story each night..

 The girls would both fight over who got to pick the egg for that night. It was a fun tradition and a good way to remember what Easter really is all about.

 Every holiday we make sugar cookies for Greg to take to work.

 The girls love helping frost and decorate them.

 Our town had a huge Easter egg hunt at the park, and even had the Easter Bunny. Brooklyn thought it was awesome, but Bostyn wanted to run away as fast as she could.

 This was as close as she would get to the Easter Bunny, and she was still freaking out about it.

 The girls got to go in the same age category, which was nice so we could watch both of them.

 Brooklyn took off and just kept running to the back of the field, and picked up eggs as fast as her little hands would let her.

 Bostyn on the other hand took her sweet time.

 They were so cute, and had so much fun!

 Even though Bostyn was more interested in her stick, than the eggs.

 They made out with quite the loot.

 Easter morning their dresses and baskets were waiting for them.

 Brooklyn was so excited, and Bostyn didn't really know what to think.

 They both loved finding what the Easter Bunny had hidden for them.

 We love this picture. It was pretty much impossible to get them both looking, smiling, and keeping the ears on!

 For about a week leading up to Easter, we had that big box outside the window sitting in our garage. Brooklyn kept asking and asking what was inside, and she thought it was full of tools.

 Finally on Easter we showed her the picture of what was in the box-a swing set. She was SOOO excited!

 All ready for church-Bostyn was not wanting her picture taken though.

 They were so adorable in their matching dresses.

 Thank goodness for self timers, or we would never have any family shots!

 After a couple of days we finally got the swing set put together and Brooklyn has been in heaven!

 We finally got around to dying East Eggs the day after Easter...better late than never, right?

Bostyn just wanted to eat the egg.

 She was pretty upset when I put the dye out of her reach.

 Brooklyn always loves any holiday activity.

 Brooklyn picked out the Easter Egg kit this year, and had so much fun decorating the eggs after they had dried.

 They were so funny to look at! I love the faces that we came up with.

 We couldn't look at them without laughing!

 We finally got to try a new method that I have been wanting to do! You crack the eggs and them stick them in the dye overnight in the fridge. In the morning you un-peel them and have Dino Eggs. 

 

Both of the girls loved them!

We had so much fun celebrating Easter! Not only do we love to do all of the fun holiday traditions, but we get to focus more on our Savior and his Atonement for us!