Foster Family: Easter

We love Easter. We love celebrating Easter for religious reasons, and we also love celebrating the coming of spring.
The kids always enjoy coloring eggs and I have finally learned how to take a deep breath and worry less about the mess. In the spirit of relaxed motherhood, I even hard boiled more eggs this year so we could enjoy even more.

Dying eggs turned out to be really fun and they turned out great. Matthew was much more careful about colors and designs. His eggs were colorful and detailed. Most of Rachel's eggs ended up purpley-gray. She loved the colors -- a little too much.

On Saturday morning some of our neighbors had an egg hunt for the kids. It was a lot of fun. Rachel was sooo excited and ended up with a good haul. Matthew helped with the hunt and took pictures of the whole thing. He's quite the photographer and got some really good shots of some of the neighbor kids.

That evening we headed to Ogden to my brother and sister in law's house for Easter dinner and another egg hunt for the kids. Dinner was wonderful! The kids all had a blast playing together, and yes, getting more candy.

Easter morning the kids were up fairly early to have the official Easter Bunny egg hunt and to find their baskets. They got some fun outdoor toys - bubbles, a soccer ball, a playground ball, sidewalk chalk, etc. Steve had to work, so he got to watch the hunt, then had to head out. Bummer.

This picture of the kids in their Easter duds was taken after church so they look a bit bedraggled. They looked darling, though, in their new clothes. Church itself was another story, but at least the kids looked good. I won't go into detail about our church experience, but we'll just say that one of our finer moments involved Rachel lying on the chair during singing time while the other reverent Easter clothed children sang the "Hello" song to the new children. Rachel sang too... her song went a little something like this, "I'm not having fun. I don't like Primary. This isn't fun for me..." Yah. I don't know why I would even hope to think that just because it was Easter that my Sunday would be any different than any other.