Easter Weekend

East weekend was great! Saturday afternoon we colored our eggs. We tried to do it while the twins were sleeping, because two crazy boys and die didn't sound like a good combination, but Trey refused to nap. I think he sensed there was something fun going on without him. So we stuck him in his chair.

That evening we went over to my parents for dinner and they had an Easter egg hunt for the boys. This was Tate and Trey's first Easter egg hunt. They were just learning how to walk last year. They loved it! They thought the eggs were "balls". They were unaware that they contained candy at the time of the hunt. So it made it all the more exciting when we opened the eggs at the end.

Tate with his loot and his spoon

Trey

Beck finding all the candy

Tate was so thrilled that there was chocolate in the eggs that he would let anyone come near the bag of chocolate and insisted on carrying it the whole night.

And yes that is a cardboard wall that my parents have created to keep the twins from jumping off their fireplace. They never had to worry about Beck, but Tate and Trey are crazy! I'm grateful their heads are still intact!

Sunday morning we were visited by the Easter Bunny who hid eggs all over the front room. I put a gate up in the hallway so the kids couldn't sneak out and get into the candy ahead of time

This time Tate and Trey knew there was candy in the eggs. So after picking up each egg they wanted to open it and eat it. Our hunt took a very very long time. Following the hunt Randy made a nice breakfast for us all.

We then went to church with my in-laws. We survived another Sunday. I dread sacrament meeting, but we somehow always make it. We made it through this sacrament thanks to the wonderful people sitting behind us and their donation of fruit loops! The twins took a short nap after church and then off to Grandma and Grandpa Coy's for Easter dinner and their amazing egg hunt.

My mother-in-law always out does herself on holidays and this was no exception. The food was amazing and Kara made amazing chocolate strawberries. I won't say how many of those I ate. I'm trying to repress that.

The kids are released in order of age. So they get a head start from the older kids. When the twins were released Tate ran right for one of the kid cars to play in. There were eggs hidden on the seat of the car. The quickly threw them out and played in his car. Thus ending his egg hunt.

Trey ran to another of the cars, where eggs were also hidden. But once he saw the egg on his seat he got into the egg hunting mode and did quite well.

Beck was an animal! We had prepped him and told him that his older cousins were a lot faster than him and he better run as fast as he can to get all the eggs. He did just that! He made out with 3 prizes and $47! I don't have any pictures of the hunt becuase I was trying to coax Tate out of the car the whole time, but here are some pics of all the grandkids at the hunt.

This is probably the worst picture of all the other kids, but I love that Tate is hugging Trrey. They are all getting antsy because they are being forced to wait in the front room while Grandpa hid the eggs.

This is after the hunt and I love this picture because Tate and Trey are fighting over a plastic egg. We are missing 4 grandkids from these pictures. Ish, Sam, Savana and Thomas. Thomas was at the hunt but he is one of our two new additions being just over a month old. He was sleeping in the first pic and eating in the second.

Easter was such a great day! We watched movies about Christ and the resurrection that night and spent lots of time with family all weekend. I wish every weekend could be Easter weekend.