Easter Fun

This Easter was really nice. We stayed home this year, and had a relaxed family celebration. Saturday the Hubby and I finished the week long painting job we started in our living room, dining room & hallway. My father-in-law came over on Wednesday to help, too and we are ever so thankful! We wouldn't have finished by this weekend if he hadn't come to share his expert painting skills for the day! It looks great, and I've been talking about getting it done since we moved in 7 years ago!
Anyway, we worked all day on Saturday to paint and get the house back in order. We took a break to go to the church easter egg hunt that's always fun-filled. They always have a massive community wide event that is huge! This year, they "hid" 50,000 eggs!!!


After the Eggstravaganza, we met some friends for dinner and had a fun time catching up with them! Our kids loved each other, too. It was so cute to see them running around and playing, I wish I had taken pictures, can you believe I didn't?!

Easter morning we woke the little one up and I told her "Happy Easter!" She was so tired and sleepy but immediately perked up and said "It's EASTER Mommy, Yay!!!" She went through her Easter basket to see what the Easter Bunny brought her, and then it was time to get ready for church. She's starting to really know what the holidays mean, and I'm so thankful. We had a big talk about how we are so thankful to Jesus for dying on the cross for our sins on Good Friday and she says "and on Easter he came out of the tomb, right?!"

After church we came home and started getting lunch together. My parents and brother-in-law came over to have a wonderful meal with us, and of course the little one got 2 more Easter baskets! Her uncle is taking her to see Mary Poppins in May, and he put the tickets along with the Mary Poppins DVD in her adorable Easter bucket. She is SO excited!

We then dyed eggs, and she iced a couple of cupcakes and put "grass" (green coconut) and jelly beans on them, too. They were too cute :) My mom was being all Martha Stewart for Easter! It was finally egg hunting time...well, the first egg hunt of many I should say. We've been hunting eggs every day since Easter, several times a day. Obviously we had a busy, but fun weekend! We were all completely worn out at the end of the day on Sunday, but loved having part of our family over to share in such a meaningful holiday.

I know this is complete picture overload, just wanted to include the whole day! Hope you had a fantastic Easter as well :)