We had a fun Easter weekend! Saturday was fairly warm and sunny. Nick had to work that morning, so me and the kids started out with an egg hunt at the school. There were a lot of kids there and I wondered how on earth there would be enough eggs for everyone, but then we figured out that there were only a small amount of eggs and the rest was candy spread all over the playground. The kids LOVED it! And they got sooooooo much candy. It was a lot of fun and we enjoyed the weather while we were out.
The rest of the day turned out to be a big day for Nick. He's been wanting a tractor for the longest time. He's been looking and looking for a good deal and FINALLY found a tractor that looked good and was a fair price! So we loaded up and drove to Newton so he could check it out.
Once we got there, it was super windy and got really chilly, so I ended up staying in the car the whole time. The kids were so excited about maybe getting a tractor and were running all over the land we were on! Nick got to test drive the tractor and spent a good deal of time talking to the owner and decided to go forward with buying it.
He was SO. EXCITED. And I'm not gonna lie....I think his tractor's sexy, so I was excited too ;)
He spent the rest of Saturday
Saturday night, we dyed some Easter eggs and got the house cleaned up (too bad his tractor couldn't help with that) and ready to host Easter lunch for both of our families the next day.
Easter morning we got up and around and headed to church. I told the kids the Easter bunny wasn't real this year. I'd been debating it anyways and then Tommy asked me if it was real and I just couldn't say yes. Why do we put so much time and effort into these fake characters? I still gave them baskets, but they were minimal and the kids were just as excited to get them as they were when they believed the bunny was real!
I didn't manage to get a picture of our whole family, but got one of the kids!
We enjoyed a wonderful sermon and then both of our families came for a lunch and an Easter egg hunt. It turned out to be FREEZING cold that day. Like....30 degrees and windy. But the kids wanted to hunt eggs anyways, so after our lunch, they headed out. It was a quick hunt! Everyone was ready to get back inside and get warm.
Once they got inside, everyone opened their eggs and picked their prizes.
My mom had bought all the girls matching shirts and the boys a polo to go with it, so we had to get a picture. It's not the best picture, but I'm impressed you can actually see most of everyone's face!
We got one with their other set of cousins too!
I'm so glad our families were able to get together to celebrate the resurrection of our Lord! Time with family is precious and we certainly don't take it for granted around here. It's crazy how the years have flown by already and we know it's not going to slow down any time soon.
Here are all of our Easter's in the past:
2011
2012
2013
2014
2016
2017
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