Easter 2016

I decided that we would dye eggs with just Jackson and I. So I got it all set up one day during Camden's nap.

He was very excited and we had a great time doing it together!

He colored on some of them with a wax crayon so that when he dyed them a design or words would show up.

My friend Annie Jo hosted a big egg hunt at a local playground. The boys and I went and they had so much fun!

So the way the egg hunt is designed is genius! Each kid has a different kind of egg that they choose before it starts. Then they only hunt for those eggs! So there's no race for who's fastest and who grabs the most. Each kid gets 10 eggs. Camden had the carrots. At the end you dump the candy out of the eggs and hand back the eggs so they can use them the following year.

Easter baskets the Easter Bunny left

Checking out what he got

He loves his new shark goggles

I seem to make a strawberry dessert ever year for Easter. This year I made a strawberry roll cake. It was so yummy!

Still rockin' his new goggles

Heading out for the egg hunt

Jackson was super quick gathering eggs

Camden liked to stop after each one and open it to see what he got!

Beautiful Iris's blooming in the yard :)

Easter Weekend

We have had a busy and fun weekend! We kicked it off on Friday by going to my friend Stephanie's house. Jackson hadn't been able to have a play date with Will in a while. He was so excited! They were thrilled to see each other and played so well together!

We dyed Easter eggs while we were there. They did great with them and didn't even make a huge mess. Our eggs turned out nothing like the kits though! The boys had a blast and the babies did great too. They napped, ate and played a little.

Our eggs turned out just like the pictures on the box, huh?!

On Saturday we went to an Easter egg hunt at my friend Sydnee's and then we went to Rian and Meghan's for a cookout. Rian's parents and sister were there and after a few minutes of Jackson being shy he started having fun and playing. Danny, Candice and the kids came too so Jackson and Sofia played. They had egg hunts inside. Candice hid them and then they would find them and re-hide them.

It looks like they were running in the street but its a cul-de-sac in a neighborhood. And no cars around!

Jackson didn't know most of the other kids and got a little shy

Sunday after Jackson woke up he came to see what the Easter bunny left and realized that he also left some eggs hidden in the house so he started hunting for eggs. Then we did an egg hunt outside with our neighbors and then headed to brunch with Jimmy's family. We got to see some extended family and cousins and such and had a great time. We did another egg hunt over at Jennifer's after brunch. He loves some egg hunts! He rarely gets candy so its been a special treat to be able to eat some candy! I hid bubbles, goldfish, half dollars, balloons, and fruit snacks in the ones we hid.

Books and a toy (Camden's) bubbles, gardening tools, new toothbrush and puzzles (Jackson's) were in the Easter baskets

He was excited about the egg hunt inside! Started searching right away

Camden just hung out

Time for another egg hunt outside with the neighbors

At brunch

Cousins. Camden and Evelyn meeting. She's about 3 weeks older.

Jackson, Camden, Aiden and Evelyn