Easter Weekend: Sunday

 The boys woke up Easter morning to a trail of Easter eggs left by the Easter bunny, they followed it down the stairs out to the front porch to where their baskets were. They got the Octonauts submarine to share. They always have a treat, book, and new shirt in their Easter baskets and a new movie to share. This year their new movie was Ponyo, one of their favorites lately.

After finding their baskets we had our traditional breakfast of scones. 

We usually do a big Easter family dinner at Mason's parents but since they were out of town this year we decided to be fun and take the kids to dinner and a movie. We saw Mr. Peabody And Sherman, which was better then I thought it would be and the kids sat through the whole thing and were really into it.

It ended up being such a fun fmaily weekend.

 My belly! I am almost 32 weeks along

 Playing with there new Easter play dough the next morning

 Max wanted a Indiana Jones made out of play dough and Mason delivered

Easter weekend: Saturday

 We started off our Easter weekend early with our city's Easter egg hunt. They had 6 different sections for different age groups so that made it really nice for the little kids. Max and Jack got plenty of little candy and we got to meet the Easter Bunny. Mason's sister and her husband met up with us at the egg hunt and then we killed some time on a near by playground before heading to lunch at Cafe Rio.
Max had his first soccer game after lunch. He was so excited but once the game started he said he was nervous and didn't want to play. We didn't want to push him so we just talked to him about why he was nervous and said he could go in to play whenever  he wanted. He finally let his Aunt Tresa go in with him holding his hand and he was so cute kicking the ball. He sat back down but went in for the last kick.

For dinner we went up Millcreek Canyon to do a camp fire and tin foil dinners. We went up with Tresa and Eric and the three dogs(Mason's parents two little ones and Tresa's big golden retriever). Max and Jack thought it was the coolest thing, having a fire, cooking their own hot dogs, and roasting marshmallows. After we finished eating and hanging around the fire we went over to the river to throw rocks in. It was such a nice evening and we decided we needed to do more outdoor stuff like that as a family.

 my boys

 Tresa and Eric

 practice before the game

Up the canyon!

 cooking their own dinner

Jack makes the craziest faces lately when I tell him to smile,

the one below he is making is his classic cross eyed crazy kid face.

Super smokey but the only family picture from that night.

 Max was more interested in roasting the marshmallows then actually eating the s'mores

 

Easter Morning

 

 

 

Our Easter morning tradition we have started is the kids waking up to a trail of candy filled eggs left by the Easter Bunny, leading to their Easter baskets. We The Easter Bunny always puts a chocolate bunny, a new book to read at bedtime, a little toy and a shirt. This year he also left Wreck it Ralph for both the boys. While the boys sat looking through their Easter baskets I put on a record of classical music while Mason made scones (We are making the tradition of doing either scones or some kind of pastry on Easter morning). I set the table with our fancy dessert plates and french table cloth, when the kids are older I will set out our crystal glasses.
After breakfast we relaxed and then did baths and got everyone ready in their Easter best, one of my favorite parts is dressing up my family.

Easter 2012

Easter morning "the Easter Bunny" left a trail of Easter eggs leading to Max and Jack's Easter baskets! Max loved following the eggs, down the stairs, out the front door where his Easter basket was waiting.
We had such a nice morning and I was SO glad the weather was so beautiful. After nap time we headed over to Mason's parents for a wonderful dinner with lots of his family, there was around 18 people. It turned out so fun thanks to Mason's mom for making such an delicious meal.
The kids played outside in the awesome weather and Max was determined to try and ride a bike that was much to big for him.

Later in the evening I got THEE worst tooth ache ever...So that didn't make for the best night.
But I was lucky enough to get it taken care of the next morning.
Tooth pain is the worst.