Egg Hunt

The year that Bella was blessed the Easter Bunny came on Saturday since Sunday was going to be crazy enough getting everyone ready and at church in time to sit with each other. (isn't neat that her blessing and baptism both fell on Easter week-end?) We really enjoyed having the secular part separate from Easter Sunday.  It allowed us to focus more on the true meaning of Easter.  Since then, we have asked the Easter Bunny to come on early whenever possible.  It doesn't always work- like the year we were in Nauvoo until Easter Sunday- but for the most part Easter Bunny egg and basket hunts have taken place on Saturday.  This year the Easter Bunny came while we were at the baptism.  In addition to hiding 7 baskets he also hid 22 eggs for EACH kid!  That was a lot of eggs!!!

Last year we started a testimony egg hunt also. It was great!!! The idea came from my friend Jocelyn's blog.  We grew up in the same stake and played in the band for rival schools.  If you've never had a chance to check our her blog she has a lot of great ideas for having a Christ centered home.  We asked family members to email us their testimony and placed them on word strips inside eggs (for longer testimonies just a sentence was in the egg with an asterick cueing us to read the rest).  The Spirit was very strong.  We loved it so much last year, that we did it again this year.  I re-used the testimonies people sent last year. This year was extra special because we some of the people who sent us testimonies were at our house.  It was neat to hear the testimonies in their own voice.  We did the testimony eggs after church on Sunday.

Waiting to start

 Jacob got hurt and needed some Mima hugs

 Bella loved climbing the trees to get eggs

 Sisters

 

 

 Grandma and Grandpa Reed

 Kelten really enjoyed finding eggs

 The hunt for the baskets.  The Easter Bunny usually leaves clues from spot to spot until they finally find their baskets.  The kids were disappointed this year there were no clues.  I think the Easter Bunny is running out of clues and the thought of making them for 7 kids was too overwhelming!!

 It rained Easter morning so we had to get pictures inside.  Between Bella always pouting and Jacob always making funny faces, it is very hard to get a nice picture of us all.  This one wasn't too bad