Easter

This year we decided to go to the Good Friday Easter service at church, instead of attending a service on Easter Sunday.  We met Grams, Papa and Aunt Jamie and attended the service together, which rarely happens these days.  On Saturday morning we headed to Papa and Grams' house for a cousins Easter egg hunt.  On Easter morning, we read the Easter story together in big Sister's Jesus Storybook Bible after the kids opened their Easter baskets.  John and Big Sister went to brunch at John's aunt and uncle's house on Sunday afternoon, but Little Bud and I stayed home because he was having some "people overload" issues and was seriously in need of a nap after all of the weekend festivities.

Big Sister and I had fun making our own egg dyes this year.

The dyes didn't work as well as we'd hoped, but it was an interesting process,

and Big Sister was excited to see the colors develop as the vegetables cooked down.

Easter baskets from Papa and Grams

It's not often all of the cousins get together,

they so enjoyed playing together :)

egg hunt!!

Easter baskets!

(notice Little Bud has the Ariel water bottle in his basket-

when I saw it at the store, I knew I had to get it for him; the kid loves the Little Mermaid!)