Where Did Our Easter Go

At our house, we ask the Easter Bunny to come on Saturday instead of Sunday so that the kids aren't quite so wound up for church (Especially because stake conference is usually on Easter, and it is hard enough to sit reverently for 2 hours without a sugar high.) That way we can focus on Christ on Sunday, and not on the Easter Bunny and candy.

So Friday night after we got home from hunting, we colored the Easter eggs. The kids had so much fun being creative and making their own special eggs.

Here are some of their creations a little closer up!

The kids went to bed, and I got out their Easter baskets, grass, plastic eggs, etc. in preparation for the Easter Bunny to come in the night. When the kids woke up on Saturday morning, they waited for each other to all be awake and then asked permission to look for their baskets and eggs as usual. Much to their dismay and almost horror, there was nothing. No eggs, no baskets, nothing. Even the real eggs that were in the fridge were gone. The kids were in complete shock. And SO disappointed. Not only had the Easter Bunny not hidden all of the fun for them to find, he had completely taken it away....it was just plain gone.

We had several places that we needed to be on this morning, one of which was the city Easter Egg hunt, so off we went, hoping there had been some terrible mistake, and that it would all be back when we got home.

The city egg hunt here is usually AWESOME. There is always plenty of toys and eggs for each kid to be totally thrilled with the stash that they are returning home with. This year was a disaster, much to the dismay of the poor girl in charge. She got on the loud speaker to let everyone know that there would be 3 minutes until the egg hunt began. Well, some of the kids thought she had said you have 3 minutes to find the eggs, and they all took off running. The poor girl then started to yell NO, NO, NO, and the kids who weren't already running thought she said Go, Go, Go. So off went most of the rest of the kids. Those of you who know my kids know that they are usually very good at obeying when it comes to these kind of things. All my kids held back and didn't run. When they each finally decided that they better go or they wouldn't get anything, it was nearly too late.

Zak was among the older kids in his group, so he did pretty well, but Les and Amber got almost nothing. I felt awful. Not because they needed any of that stuff, but because Easter had now been a complete bomb, twice, for them.

After the egg hunt, we went over to the University. Greg's wife, Marsha is starting to train and compete with the possibility of competing in the 2012 Olympics in London. Since she competed in Sydney, Australia, and Athens, Greece, she has had 2 kids. In those Olympics, she did the Heptathlon. Right now, she is just working for the long jump and javelin. She wants to see how well she can come back in her best and favorite sports before she decides to go for all 7 events again (we tease her that she is like a grandma to those other girls that she is competing against!)
It was fun to watch her, she is an amazing athlete. She didn't have a very good day, but she is just starting out again after 4 years. Thanks for inviting us Auntie Marsha.

Me and Ty! He kept trying to get on the long jump track when Mama was going!

Mark doing his funny dance...2 year olds can be so cute!

Finally, we arrived back home, and guess what we found....
The Easter Bunny had come, and he had a hole in his pocket. He left a trail of jelly beans everywhere!! and not only did he bring everything back.....

but he filled all our eggs with spending money for our trip!

Thank You Easter Bunny!