Egg-cellent Easter

We had a great Easter time in Colorado.  This year the kids were old enough for us to focus on the true meaning behind our holiday celebrations, but some of the complexities are hard for Andrew to grasp.  Every few days he will ask, "But why did Jesus die?"  We have explained it a lot.  We are grateful that Jesus did die and grateful still that He lives.  Because of Him we may always have hope.

Sylvia in her cute bunny slippers.

For playgroup we planned a fun egg hunt at a local park.  Here are all the kids, except for Andrew because he had already started walking toward the hidden eggs.

Andrew and Sylvia are excited to find some eggs.

We hid most of the eggs in plain sight because the most of the kids are age four and under.

Sylvia did a great job! Andrew found too many eggs (the kids had 10 each) we he gave his extras to the littlest kids.

Proud kiddos

Here are some of our friends.  After the egg hunt we had a picnic lunch.

Afterwards we played on the playground.  Andrew and Blake (Andrew's best friend) dressed alike.  It made it hard to keep track of who was who while they were all running around.

Here we are coloring our eggs.  I saw a life hack that said to put eggs in a whisk to make dyeing the eggs less messy for young ones.  It worked well!

Andrew and Sylvia had lots of fun

They couldn't wait to eat their creations!

This is Sylvia's face of excitement upon discovery that the Easter Bunny had paid us a visit.

This is what she saw.

She knows there is candy in that egg!

Andrew opened a Kinder egg (the last of the eggs from when Tyler flew home from deployment and stopped over in Germany) and found a cool toy!

We did a little egg hunt in the backyard too!

The kids had fun.

Andrew loved his car paint kit he got for Easter.

Here Sylvia is working on a puzzle she got, while wearing her bib like a cape.

Our Easter Sunday family picture.  As the kids like to say, "Happy Easter everyone!"