Easter 2013

We had such a great Easter weekend.  We had great weather which made it the perfect spring Easter we were hoping for.  The girls got 2 Easter dresses this year.  We bought them one and their Aunt Margene bought them the other ones.  They wore this one a week early when we celebrated with my family and went to dinner at my parents with an Easter Egg hunt with candy and money.

Friday night I decided we needed to have a practice Egg Hunt since we were going to our neighborhood one the next morning.  I had them watch me put little cookie bites in the egg and then would take it across the room and put it somewhere.  Well this worked once until I took the eggs back to put more cookies in them and they were so mad at me for taking their eggs and we had lots of tears/protesting/mad girls.

But it worked because the next morning we went to our neighborhood Easter Egg Hunt and let me tell you we have an awesome neighborhood.  We had over 12 houses that all had over 100 eggs on each lawn.  I would've been happy if the girls got 1 egg each but it ended up they got about 8.  They loved getting them and putting them in.  Although a few times Aria would take one out of the basket and put it back on the grass.  I did have to kind of get after a boy who scooped up an egg right as Siena was bending down to pick it up.  She was literally inches from it and he just scooped it up and kept going.  After telling him that was not very nice of him, he looked at me apologized and put it back,which was very nice of him.  Siena really didn't need another egg but seriously, I couldn't keep my mouth shut either.  At least he was really nice about it and I thanked him.

 The egg hunt must have wore Siena out because I literally turned around and she was sound asleep.  It was so hard to wake her back up, talking to her right in her face and nothing.

That afternoon we went and walked around a little pond here in Draper and fed some ducks.  The girls liked walking around and I'm pretty sure would have gotten into the green yucky water if I hadn't stopped them.  But they were fascinated by the ducks and how close they were when we would throw bread to them.

The Easter bunny brought them some PJ's, a rubber duck, a little toy truck (which seems random but they love wheeling cars around whenever they see them and we have NO cars in our house) and a maget doll board to use with dress up clothes magnets to play with at church.  This was all they were going to get and then the Easter bunny found a sale through her sister for buy one get one free Barbie laptops.  The girls, espeically Siena are obsessed with laptops.  So they got their own laptop and are in love.  So far they only hit the on/off button and it's soooo annoying but it does come with games that hopefully they will learn to play one day.  Siena's face was priceless when she saw her laptop and she looked up at us like...are you serious, this is mine??  We got it on video and it's pretty cute.  She of course then had to check out Aria's just to make sure she didn't have a better/different one.

Sunday we went to church and although I would like to say Sacrament was really nice, it was not.  Our usual 'trap them on a bench they can't get out' seats were gone by the time we got there due to meltdowns before we even left the house which was due to the fact they did NOT want their hair in pig tails...sheesh.  So they thought they were free to run around wherever they wanted, so we ended up pacing the hallway for most of the hour.  I was a little nervous that when we dropped them off at Nursery (in their Easter dresses) that the nursery leaders were setting up to dye eggs with them...seriously?  18 month olds in Easter dresses.  I was a little nervous but we really do have fabulous nursery leaders and they either didn't let my girls touch the dye or they had some good coverups because their dresses stayed clean.  Phew...

That afternoon we had Shane's sister over for dinner and we had our own little Easter Egg hunt.  They loved running around with their baskets and collecting the eggs and even though they only had about 3 M&Ms in each egg, they really didn't care about the candy, just getting the eggs.

 So as you can see from the ton of pictures...we had a great weekend and it was fun celebrating with our girls now that they kind of get what is going on. 

Even though our girls may not understand the true meaning of Easter, I do and I'm so grateful to celebrate Easter and the resurrection and His Atonement for me.  I think of the true meaning of eternal families at times like these and whenever I look into my daughters eyes and am especially grateful we will be a family forever.  I also think about the many people who have gone before me and what a glorious day it will be to be reunited with them one day all because of Jesus' sacrifice and resurrection.