Our Easter celebrations began Monday night when we dyed eggs for Family Home Evening. Craig returned from a trip to the states Sunday and brought back an egg dying kit - perfect timing.
The kids were a little miffed to have to dye brown eggs (what they have here) but soon realized that as long as you didn't do yellow or orange, they worked fine. It actually made the dye quite vibrant!
We had to do it in two rounds since Ashlyn and Breann had basketball practice. They came home and dyed eggs later.
The came up with some beautiful, creative eggs.
Oh - how did that get in there!! Dying eggs really wore Craig out! He has meetings most every night - I think he was still trying to get over jet lag. Hopefully it wasn't important!
Saturday evening we participated in a little neighborhood egg hunt. Some friends invited us to dinner and we ended up egg hunting with a whole crew. The kids had tons of fun running all over the street finding eggs. Felt a little strange not being in a grassy park or something, but it worked. The teenagers all hid the eggs for the younger kids.
Sunday morning the kids came down to find that the Easter bunny had indeed come. Nothing like a whole load of candy. It was a special treat though because it was real, US candy! (Ashlyn is still in bed - she'd rather sleep and doesn't eat candy anyway. I'm really bad at getting pictures of her). We have 9:00 church so we didn't have much time in the morning. We had my sister Anna and her family over for dinner that evening. It's so nice to have family around to share the holidays with.
