Happy Easter

We had such a nice Easter!

We don't usually do a whole lot for Easter. Well not the big hurrah that you'd think of anyways. We go to church and then get together with family and have a nice dinner and just hang out. And it's always been perfect.

This year was no different. We went to church, and then went to Grandpa and Grandma's for a delicious Easter dinner. It was a beautiful day so afterwards we went and sat outside while the kids all played. I even got a few tan lines! Snapped a few pictures of the kids for Grandpa and Grandma to plaster all over their house ;)

But this year we were also really excited to do a few more of the typical Easter festivities with Noah. People definitely go overboard with Easter - it isn't Christmas! - so we did it in a much more low key way and it was perfect. We had a little Easter egg hunt for him in the front yard and he had a blast once he figured out that his eggs had m&m's and packs of his favorite fruit snacks in them! No visiting the Easter bunny because that is just creepy. Nope. 

We also put together a little basket for him. I don't know how much we'll keep up with this kinda thing, I never really understood why people get huge presents for Easter. But it was fun to put together a few things for him. I've seen a few things on Pinterest about doing like a family basket, with stuff in it to enjoy outside since it's the beginning of the nice weather. Stuff like chalk and bubbles and that sort of thing. I thought that was a good idea, so I might do something like that in the future. We'll see. But for his first 'real' Easter, we had to get him some loot :)

Time for a picture overload! 

My boys. This picture... I love it. 

Naps after dinner and playing outside at Grandma and Grandpa's

And now for the Easter egg hunt! 

Why did they put trash all over the yard and make me clean it up?

Oh, there's chocolate inside? Okay. Let's find more!

Wait, that's it? No more chocolate?

Gosh I love him so much it hurts. Chocolate face and all ;) 

Noah's first Easter basket! 

Thomas whistle that also blows bubbles, Leap Frog remote, Thomas eating set, Thomas sippy cup, and a Thomas hat. (Missing a Thomas sweatshirt because it's up in his room and he's napping, and a Crayola dry erase crayon portfolio thing. Oh and some Peeps, but those he has to share with Dad!) The basket is just a regular basket that I'm going to use for his books, more practical than an Easter basket.

Look at all this Thomas stuff! 

I didn't mean to have it all be Thomas but it just kind of worked out that way haha

I had a couple videos of him doing the egg hunt and laughing at the Thomas whistle that blows bubbles, but I can't figure out how to get them in here without uploading to Youtube first. And I don't really want to do that. Bummer! 

All in all we had an awesome day! Next year I'm excited to dive into coloring eggs with Noah. I thought about it this year, but it never really worked out when Josh could be home do help and do it with us too, so we'll save that for next year. He probably wouldn't have gotten into it much anyways, he'd just want to put his hands in the cups and dye himself! 

Happy Easter!