Easter Weekend 2011

This Easter, Leah had 2 pretty new dresses: one from Nana and one from Aunt Karen, given to us before she was even born! She wore Nana's last week on Palm Sunday and she thought she was such a princess!!

We decided to attempt dyeing eggs this year with Leah, and she really loved it. She was very careful in choosing her colors, carefully put the egg in the dye, and then took her time stirring it all around with the spoon. She only managed to get a little dye on her shirt and break only one egg.

We also decorated sugar cookies. I wasn't really sure what tools one should use for something like that with kids, so we just used our fingers. Of course, the sprinkles were Leah's favorite.




Even Andrew had a taste of the frosting!!

And the finished products:

Friday night we had our Easter dinner as a family, since the rest of the weekend was going to be busy.

Saturday we had an Easter Egg Hunt at church. What a great turn-out!! It was so well-run and a lot of visitors showed up! They had crafts tables set out for the kids to work on when they first arrived. (Leah loves pasting!)

Then Brett used the Resurrection Eggs to tell the story of Easter. I really want to get some of these for our family next year!

Then came the hunting! Leah did not run around gathering them like crazy as I thought she would. She carefully picked up a few, and I had to encourage her to get more. I think she was more excited about the book she got after the Bible time than she was about the eggs. She did enjoy the chocolate candy inside the eggs, even though it was so hot outside everything was really melted!

Andrew didn't care what was inside the egg. He just wanted to hold it!

And of course, today we dressed in our Easter best. The bunny came and brought Easter baskets while we were at church. Leah was so excited, especially since her basket had Princess things inside! She really didn't go too crazy over the candy. She daintily ate her chocolate bunny over the course of an hour or so, and a couple jelly beans. I have hidden away the rest, of course, to dole out modestly, but she hasn't even asked! Later, we had an Easter egg hunt in our backyard, and Leah even wanted to "hide" them again on her own!