Easter 2012

We had a lot of fun this Easter season. We dyed eggs on Saturday night (Maddox was very excited about this since he looooooves eggs), and the kids all really liked staying up late to coloring them (since we might have had to make an emergency Target run to get more food coloring...whoops!)

The next morning we woke up and had a family devotional on the true meaning of Easter and watched a great video together on the last week of our Savior's life. It was a good reminder that the candy and egg hunts aren't the true reason for Easter, and it was nice to focus on Jesus Christ before getting all the Easter traditions started. The kids were very good and listened well, so we followed up our little devotional time by letting them each find their Easter Baskets before we went and got ready for church. McKinley was glad she got the movie Hugo, Kennedy loved all her fashion stuff, and Maddox was very happy with his Star Wars Transformer.

After church, we came home and hid the Easter eggs in the yard for the kids to hunt for, and we followed that up with a nice little family dinner. It was a great day, full of what is most important on life, along with fun family time.  We sure love these kids, especially the fact that Kennedy managed to wear just about everything from her Easter basket for the day (the scarf, necklace, bracelet, dress, shoes, etc) and Maddox now thinks that Angry Birds are an essential part of Easter (eggs & birds I guess?).  And Milt had a little too much fun hiding McKinley's eggs places she could never reach.  Aaaah, the beauty of messing with your kids just never gets old, I guess.  Hope you had a Happy Easter!