Easter Morning

This year was the first morning we have had easter in our home since every year there seems to be something keeping us from having a normal easter. So we had to blend family traditions. We will have to continue to change things a little bit until we get to right but for this year it worked out great.

Tradition 1: The easter bunny hides the baskets for the kids. We asked Mr. Bunny to hold off on this until the girls are a bit older that way they don't think that he just didn't come. Plus our apartment doesn't leave many hiding spots at the moment.

Tradition 2: The hidden eggs. In Brian's family they hid real eggs... in mine that was not allowed. We lost a few too many real eggs and decided to stick to the plastic. Now this is a bonus for the girls that Brian is enjoying. We always had about 60 plastic eggs for the 4 kids. That means that this year we had about the same for our two and of course the parents. I loved having each egg stuffed with candy to find. it made the hunt so fun because you tried to find not just more eggs but the "right" eggs with your kind of candy.

Tradition 3: What is in the basket.... a present, some clothes whether socks, underwear, pj's, or a bow we love it all. Brian got pj's and the girls got socks. Then you get candy just for you of course. I know it sounds like a lot of candy but if my dad the dentist let it happen then it is fine with me.

Tradition 4: The big egg. In our house my dad always got a giant egg full of m&m's each year. Sometimes he even got a fancy candy machine. But we carried on the tradition and brian got his peanut m&m egg.

Tradition 5: Breakfast. Since we colored eggs and I would not allow us to hide the real eggs.... it makes the house smell, then we used them for his breakfast. Creamed eggs on toast. Even though we haven't spend easter always together I have always made this for him sometime easter week. It is good but I think I might be hard pressed to convince the world of that. But we like it and that is what matters. The girls even ate some this year.

Anyways all in all it was a great easter. We spend the morning at home watching conference coloring a million pictures of baptism, the prophet, temples, and Jesus. And then watched the second half at my parents. Followed by a nice quiet easter dinner with family. It was perfect and we had a good spiritual uplifting holiday!

Such a good easter we just didn't make it through the movie during clean up.