Easter Weekend

We had some fun Easter activities. This is the first ward we've been in where they don't do an Easter egg hunt activity, which was pretty disappointing. So instead, I decided to put together a little egg hunt with some friends from our play group...

Easton & Gavin with our little friend Weston

Checking out their loot... Everyone got to find 12 eggs (trying to make it fair). Gavin actually did better at finding the eggs than I thought he would. I let Easton do his own thing and followed Gavin around to help him.. Much to my surprise when I caught with Easton up after Gavin found all his, Easton only had 4 eggs in his basket. So turns out Easton was the one who needed the most help...

Then of course we had some fun dying the Easter eggs. He mostly just wanted to make them all blue, but I tried to encourage some other colors as well.

Easter morning- The Easter bunny (and Grandma) went a little over board. They got books, bubbles, a soccer ball, and Easton got a giant stuffed Mario! (Yes he is still obsessed!)

A new Mario shirt from Grandma (which he wants to wear everyday)

The Easter bunny also got Easton some fun little Mario-Kart toys. After he got those we went outside to find the eggs, but Easton was far more interested in playing with his cars-leaving Gavin to find them all!

We also did a cute little idea that I got from a friend here where you bury Jelly beans the night before the Easter bunny comes and the next morning the Easter bunny turns them into suckers (You can see one in the ground on the picture above). Easton thought that was pretty awesome!

Showing off his Mario-Kart cars

"Easter Sunday best" pictures

I love these boys!!

Oh and the Saturday before Easter we got a new puppy. Her name is Lucy and she is the best dog EVER! She is an Australian Shepard/Lab mix. She looks like a lab, but is the size of a Shepard and has no tail like the Australian Shepard's. I really didn't want another dog anytime soon, but Jameson did. He hardly ever asks for anything and I feel bad that he doesn't really have any friends here- so I said yes!

She was free and already crate trained. She listens great. We don't have a fence, but we can let her out to go to the bathroom and she'll come right back. Her previous owner had a daughter Gavin's age so she is also great with kids. Easton tries to ride her and jump on her and she just lets him. She also likes to lay by the boy's bedroom doors til we put her in her kennel for the night, which is super sweet. So I guess even though I didn't want her- she makes a great new addition to the family!