Easter Fun

We had a lot of fun with our Easter celebrations this year!  Evie was WAY into the Easter egg hunts and Addie added another element of sweetness to everything.

We started with a family Easter party on my side of the family.  Everyone was able to make it . . . even my sister's family from Idaho came.  We always do a huge Easter egg hunt, filled by a very yummy lunch.  Afterwards, the kids just play and play.  

Here are all the younger cousins right before the hunt.
(The older cousins are "too cool" to get in the photo these days.)

Evie found lots of eggs and loaded up on the candy that was scattered all over the yard.
We had a blast following her around the yard.  It was hard to keep up with her . . . she is so fast!

Here I am with my little Sweet Pea.  She is so darn cute!

We spent Easter morning just with our little family.  Evie made her way into our room where we all snuggled together on our bed for a while.  

We watched a video about Jesus because we want our girls to know that Easter is more than about eggs containing candy.  Evie is definitely at an age where she is starting to understand more and more and we want her to know Jesus and follow his example.  If you want to watch what we watched . . .   This is the video we watched.  It's only two minutes long.  Evie was actually VERY engaged and when it came to the part where Jesus wasn't in the tomb she asked, "Where did Jesus go?"  We continued to watch and when he showed up in white she said very excitedly, "There He is!"  I tell you . . . these little kids KNOW and they feel of the truth and the love that Jesus has to offer us!  

After that, we asked Evie if she wanted to see if the Easter bunny left her a surprise?  We told her that the Easter bunny brings surprises and he always includes one about Jesus since Easter is about Him.  She was excited to go see.  

She loved going through her basket.  She got an Easter book called "Easter Walk" where a couple of kids go on a treasure hunt with grandpa and find things that resemble the Easter story.  She also got a new Pez dispenser of a baby chick, a new train for her train set (Emily), a new dress, and the "Penguins of Madagascar" movie.  There were a couple of "healthy" treats in there too.

Addie clearly loves her basket too!  She got a little board book entitled, "My Heavenly Father Loves Me."  She also got a bunny rabbit Pez, a hide-n-seek book, a new dress, and baby lotion.  

The Easter bunny hid a few eggs for Evie to find too.

We then just hung out and read their new books and snuggled with our girls.  We're so incredibly grateful for them!

We had Easter dinner with Beau's family.  We enjoyed being with them.  Evie loves playing with HaLee . . . they are only 9 months different in age and they have so much fun together.  

Their aunt Amber surprised the girls with this motorized car!  They were truly surprised and VERY delighted!  I'm sure that car will get plenty of use!

The girls also got to go on a little Easter egg hunt in Nana and Papa's backyard.

We had so much fun with family this weekend!  We're so grateful for the reason behind Easter . . . that our Savior died for us, that he rose, and that he lives.  His atonement is real and allows us to live forever with our families.  

We hope you had a beautiful Easter weekend!  Happy Easter from all four of us in the Hunter clan!