Happy Easter - 2011

Happy Easter! Hope everyone had as much fun as we did!

First, we decorated eggs. I tried something new this year. It was a gel you put on the egg and swirl it in a plastic bag. Brooklyn had fun helping!

Trenton thought he'd help too. He mostly just wanted to eat it though.


The finished product. They turned out so pretty.


Easter Bunny found his way to our house. He left baskets full of treats! (but wouldn't you know, our Easter Bunny doesn't bring candy... I don't think the kids even noticed!)


Collecting eggs Easter morning.


She was so excited that Easter Bunny brought her new clothes.


Trenton checking out his stuff.


He liked the eggs the best.


We went to Kurt's mom's house first. She fed us delicious breakfast and had a fun egg hunt planned (for the adults too). She hid almost 200 eggs. There were some empty eggs that had numbers in them. Once we found all the eggs, we got the prize associated with the number. Only some of them weren't prizes at all... they were exercises that we had to do in order to make up for the calories in the other prizes. I took pictures of everyone doing the exercises, but I guess I'll be nice and not post them. It sure was fun though!

Here's Trenton and Daddy hanging out.


Brooklyn actually sharing toys with her brother.


Trenton was busy crawling around everywhere... mainly trying to get his fingers in the electrical outlets. It didn't matter how many times we moved him, he always made his way back... one track mind I guess.


Then we headed over to my Grandma's to celebrate with my side of the family. Trenton couldn't understand why he didn't have his own spot at the table. He was trying to get up and steal the big kids' food.


Auntie Heidi brought a bunch of treat-filled eggs. Here's Great Grandma trying to hold all the kids back until the adults were done hiding eggs.


Brooklyn had so much fun this year finding eggs on her own. If you look closely at her basket she even found a grapefruit and gathered that as well.

Yeay, Trenton and Grandma found one too!


Some of the kids hunting...


Grandpa Cook always throws in a few "money eggs" too! Woo hoo, she's rich!


I went looking for Kurt to see if he wanted dessert when my Grandma was serving it up... Here's what I found. Daddy was sleeping on the couch and Trenton was just hanging out playing with his hand. Who's watching who here?


We tried to get a family picture. Kids were having no part of it. Brooklyn was more interested in her basket and Trenton was trying to figure out how he could steal the eggs from sister.


A little better... Oh well.

Holidays are always so busy and get the kids off their schedules... but in the end, we make our rounds and then get back on track the next day. Whew, I think we were all beat after this fun-filled day!

Happy Easter everyone!