Easter

I didn't get any pictures this year for Easter but I figured I'd write about it for journal purposes. The day before Easter Jared's grandma has all the great grandkids over for an egg hunt in her back yard. Everyone brings a sandwich for themselves and something to share with everyone. They also do egg wars where you take your hard boiled egg and hit them against everyone else's and whoever has the egg that doesn't break, wins. Jared found out Wednesday he would have to work Saturday so we were both really disappointed about that. Crue and I went to St. George by ourselves to have some fun with the Easter activities and to pick up a bed we were getting from Jared's grandma. There ended up only being two of grandma's actual great grandkids and the rest of the kids were Jared's cousin's husband's nieces and nephews (did you follow that?).

Jared's cousin and her husband had set up games for the kids - they had a fish pond, cake walk, and a duck pond (if the shape on the bottom of the duck matched the shape they drew, you won a prize). Crue got a thing of bubbles from the pond and Jared's mom blew bubbles for Crue. He was laughing so hard while he attacked the bubbles! It was hilarious. He was the first to win at the cake walk (a cupcake). He won a ball from the duck pond game. He just wanted to keep playing with the water from the pond. It was close to his naptime too so he was getting pretty ornery, especially when he didn't get what he wanted. After the games they did the egg hunt. Since Crue was Sandra's only grandchild there, she took his hand and walked with him around the yard while I carried his bucket. We'd go to an egg and tell him to get it and put it in the bucket. He didn't quite get it or care about the eggs too much (although he did like the candy in them later). We only got a few and then we couldn't find anymore. We were about done anyway since he was having more fun with a little soccer ball in the yard than looking for eggs. After that I decided not to worry about doing an egg hunt at our house for him. I was going to do a few eggs and figured he might like the noise when he shook the eggs with candy but then I decided he probably wouldn't care too much after Saturday.

Sunday we went to my parent's house after church and had a big meal. I had made strawberry jello with bananas in it (my dad's favorite that he always asks for) and a bunny shaped veggie dip bread bowl. I think my sister got pictures of that so I'll have to add them when I get them. It turned out pretty cute and it was really easy to do. My mom had Easter baskets for us (thank you!) and Crue loved his little toys. I think my mom has too much fun shopping for him. :)

It was a pretty fun weekend but I think Crue was pretty clueless about what was going on. Next year I'm sure I won't have any trouble when it comes time to look for eggs! And hopefully we can start teaching him what Easter is really about.