Easter!

This year the kids were actually old enough to take part in some of the traditional Easter activities like dyeing eggs, Easter egg hunts, and helping me make Easter-themed cupcakes.  Saturday our church had an Easter carnival with puppet shows, bouncy houses, a hot dog lunch, and an egg hunt.  Which turned out to be more like an egg stampede, haha.  There wasn't a whole lotta huntin' goin on. :)

After the kids naps on Saturday, I boiled a dozen eggs and we bravely decided to let the kids help dye them.  Although, we realized that they, especially Hunter, were probably going to make a mess, so we took all our supplies out to the driveway and dyed the eggs there.  They had a blast, until they realized there were no more eggs, so they took to re-dyeing the ones they had already done. :)

Notice there are only 10 "finished" eggs.  I'm sure you can imagine how we managed to have a couple casualties along the way. :)

Once the eggs dried, Marcus took them upstairs to the playroom and we hid them and let the kids hunt them four different times.  Don't worry, we made sure to count the eggs each time so we didn't wind up with a stink bomb in a few days!

After dinner Saturday night, Taylor helped me bake cupcakes and I made a big batch of butter frosting that I  colored four different colors.  

I put the frosting in Ziploc bags and snipped the corner to do the base color.  Then I used alternating colors to draw designs and Easter eggs.  I think they turned out pretty cute (and yummy!).

On Easter Sunday, we got up and the Easter bunny had come to our house to visit!

After breakfast, we got dressed and went to church. 

Don't they look so precious? Little blondies  :)  Here's Marcus with the kids:

So handsome! :)  And here's me with the munchkins:

I hope ya'lls Easter was as fun-filled and blessed as ours! He is risen!