Easter Festivities

Egg decorating, egg hunts, farm visits, Easter bunnies...Ethan and Eva had a good Easter!


Our family goes to Heritage Prairie Farm almost every Saturday for the farmer's market - the weekend before Easter, they had an egg decorating event as well, so we took Ethan! Ethan was very good with the dyes and following directions - he was very careful in picking just the right color :)

A little blue

A little yellow

A little green

The 3 eggs in front are my boy's!

The Wednesday before Easter, Whole Foods had an Easter egg hunt, so I took Ethan! He was a little bit confused because he kept trying to pull groceries off the shelf, but luckily mommy found a stash of eggs for him. At first I was avoiding the Easter bunny (thinking of past very bad encounters with Santa Claus, McGruff the crime dog, Curious George and various other costumed characters), but Ethan was insistent on meeting "that big bunny", so we waited our turn and it was great! Ethan hugged the bunny, gave him a high five - all without tears.

Waiting in line like a good boy

Easter bunny

Ethan and the Easter bunny

Happy boy

Since Ethan had so much fun at the farm decorating eggs, I bought a little dye kit and decorated them at home. Again, Ethan was very good about following directions and I didn't have a mess to clean up.

Sporting one of Eva's clips (put in with Chris's okay - trying to keep his hair out of his eyes!)

Very carefully putting the egg in the green dye

7 very beautifully decorated Easter eggs

For Easter this year, we went out to Grandma and Grandpa Barber's for dinner and a mini Easter egg hunt in their family room. 

Sleepy princess pre grandparents

Busy hunting eggs - once we explained the color coding (each kid had 2 colors), he was very good about giving the colored eggs to the right person!

Cousin love :)