Our first real Easter

This year I felt justified in going all out for Easter, since I felt the girls would actually have fun with it. And they did. The only thing I would have changed was doing the festivities on Saturday instead of Sunday, that way we would have more time to focus on enjoying our little morning family celebration. And we could reserve Sunday for focusing on the real meaning of Easter, the Atonement and Resurrection of Jesus Christ.


We got the girls up early and we told them the Easter Bunny came, and led them out to the front room. They were both trying to figure out what was going on.

Jilly was very excited once I showed her what was inside the eggs of her easter basket. She does the best surprised face.





Evelyn just wanted to dig into the candy. I think she ate 1/3 of her candy in about 20 minutes.












Here they are pleasantly reading their new books. Jilly was excited about hers because it has a picture of a cat. She loves cats. Unfortunately, we will never own one because Ben is allergic. Evelyn's book was about shapes, and she wasn't so excited about it. I think she thought is was too educational. :)





We had an easter egg hunt after church outside our apartment building. It was a lot more fun that last year, when we hid them inside the house and Evelyn still had no clue what to do with easter eggs.








Jilly caught on really quickly as to what she was supposed to do in the Easter egg hunt. She found just as many eggs as Evelyn.
She would say, "Egg!" every time she saw one on the ground.

Sorry the pictures are placed all weird. I forgot to center them when I was adding them. The only easter tradition we did not accomplish was egg dyeing. I thought I would save that potential disaster activity until next year. Yesterday I bought an egg dyeing kit at Wal-Mart on clearance to put away so I would remember next Easter. It's a lot of fun to see my girls finally getting into the spirit of holiday celebrations.