This Easter certainly looked different from last years Easter. Last year I made the kids get dressed up to watch mass in our family room. This year I still had to force them to dress up, but we actually got to attend mass. I have to say, I enjoyed this Easter more going to in person mass.
We hosted Easter at our house so we had a full house of humans to feed and entertain. Thank the good LORD for the weather as it allowed the kids to play outside and have the very best time with their cousins.
If there is one thing I love most about holidays it’s all the special time the kids get with their cousins. I cannot imagine a better way to grow up then getting into shenanigans with your first friends.
The pictures will tell the story of our day far better than I could so here it goes…
Everyone all dressed up with an actual place to go this year! Yay!
The actual Easter festivities started with the annual Easter egg dying contest. It was the same as it has been all our previous years. Cooper and Fletcher dye as may eggs as possible in the quickest format possible. Finley meticulously makes his Michael Jordan and Jayhawk eggs, as well as a few eggs with his favorite jersey numbers and Fiona tries to make some kind of crazy concoction of color. Then Ellen takes her time carefully crafting each egg into an artistic masterpiece. I think if I let her, she’d sit there all day decorating eggs.
The new addition of the rice dye was a good touch. It made some fun marble like eggs the kids were all about…did make our hands pretty dirty though…oh well, that’s part of the fun!
These two are into quantity over quality for sure. Cooper and Fletcher are such super similar humans!Slow and steady for Finley Joe on the egg dying extravaganza. He only had one at this point…his Chicago Bulls egg!
Some of the finished product. Good times had by all! Next year, I need to get that marker egg coloring device…for sure!
After a day of sporting events in the crazy wind, goals scored by both girls and this Easter egg hunting goodness it was early to bed to prepare for the Easter Bunny’s visit.
That darn bunny left a big mess….
But did bring awesome treats! Don’t mind the Halloween buckets posing as Easter baskets. They have adorable ones but prefer these ones of course.
I didn’t get too many pics of the kiddos hunting for eggs but I do know that I’d love for someone to hide some cash in eggs for me to find. Lucky kids. The girls got new bathing suits, the boys got baseball bags and Fletchy got himself a new marshmellow shooter. I was pleased that the bunny also brought them all some new reading material. This Bunny sure is smart.
I’m never in pictures, let alone with my main squeeze. Ellen and Fiona wanted to test their photography skills so why not! One day I’ll be grateful to have a few pictures of the two of us from Easter 2021. We even tried a prom pose. Good times.
The kids and their people. Getting them all to look and smile is a minor miracle.
Some sillies on the way to church. Silly face and angry face. Fletchy’s wins the prize. The wrinkled nose. I can’t.
We needed to get a church photo but there are so many of us we hid the pretty backdrop. Oh well, at least we got a photo of all of us together!
Had to get a few other goodies before we all changed into scrubs!
Our annual Easter egg Dorsey-Hall family photo. The kids were less than enthusiastic to take it but alas…they will one day appreciate me.
The big cousins (Jimmy and Willie) “hid” the eggs, or basically scattered them across our property and the littler ones went to hunt them down, some of them with the bigs help. Fun was had by all. Shout out to my sister for giving us 500 eggs for this occasion. These only added to the fun of the eggs Grandma Dixie brought with coins inside! Pretty sure some of those coins and other treasures are scattered across our land right now. Bryan should mow over some eggs next time he cuts the grass!
The hunt is not the fun. The fun is opening the eggs, discovering the treasures then trading said treasures with our cousins! That’s when the real fun begins!
Watching these two (Fletcher and Zeke) have a water balloon fight with Bryan was the highlight of the day for me. They had so much fun and we all got a lot of laughs!
We flew some kites and went on a family hike too!
Let’s not forget about the worm hunt we went on, the hike where we saw snakes and found a “scorpion” later to discover it was actually a crawdad and the kids now call a “crabdaddy” (I will not correct this because I love it too much) they named Almond. Or the 9 frogs we caught (just little guys), they did name the big one Pistachio.
Some post hike ice cream, then some more time down at the pond trying to catch fish with the worms we had hunted! It was a very full day!
If there is anything better than seeing kids explore outdoors I am not sure what it is. They find their sense of adventure there, they overcome obstacles, problem solve and learn they can do new and interesting things. It’s truly magic in the making. I’m just glad I was along for the ride (even though they did want to go alone).
Overall it was an awesome weekend full of family, delicious food and beautiful weather.
#Celebr8Awesome 