Happy Easter!

Spring has arrived in our garden and so preparations for Easter were also happening!

The marketing geniuses out there decided that gingerbread houses were not just for Christmas but also for Easter.  And when they made these available at Costco...well the kids just had to have one.  So they had fun decorating it and not too much of the candy made it into their mouths instead of the little house.

We also went to the annual Easter Egg hunt at our church on Saturday.  There were thousands of eggs laid out on the field, but also hundreds of kids.  So you have to be quick!

Afterwards, the boys checked out their loot.

Eliana happened to find one of the coveted golden eggs.  There were only a handful available.  She didn't find one in the field though. She found it by searching through the bins where people returned/recycled their empty eggs.  She found a golden egg that someone inadvertently returned.  She turned it in for a prize!

And then came Easter morning.  Every year, we also do an Easter egg hunt in our house.  We have just remodeled our home and not all the furniture was back in.  So it made it more challenging hiding eggs because there weren't as many hiding places!

Some were on the window sills.

It was still very exciting finding the eggs.

And best of all...some of the eggs had money inside!

And with Easter morning came Easter baskets!  Besides the obligatory Peeps that the kids always get, they also got cotton candy and other treats individualized to their tastes.  For example, Karina doesn't like chocolate so she got a bag of Lay's plain potato chips, which she really likes.  Gabe and Eliana do like chocolate so they got chocolate truffles and chocolate with cinnamon crisps, respectively, from Trader Joe's.

They also got a toy in their baskets.  Guess what Xiao Yu's new toy was?

They also got a little Lego set.

Our Easter breakfast was bacon and crepes.  Yum!

So that was our Easter.  We hope that yours was good as well.