Happy Easter 2012

We had a lot of fun with Easter this year.  We started out with an Easter egg hunt at Grandma Judy and Grandpa Cassity's on March 31, 2012.  I am so glad they did this because Ellie didn't really understand what she was supposed to do and this was great to be able to show her what she was doing without a million kids swarming all around her.  She would start by opening each egg and getting so excited, which was actually really fun to watch, but then when she realized there were more, she started running to each one.  

Here she is relaxing with Grandpa afterwards.

Then on April 7, we went to the North Logan Easter egg hunt.  There were so many kids there, but it is nice because they separate age groups.  So Ellie was in the 1-2 year olds and didn't have so many older kids getting everything. We had heard they start promptly so made sure we were about 10 minutes early...that was the longest 10 minutes ever trying to keep a 1 year old away from picking up all the eggs.  

She decided to take a short nap on Patrick's foot.

She did really well and got a whopping 7 eggs:)

After this egg hunt we went to the mall.  I heard they were doing little Easter egg hunts and figured since it was on our way home we would stop.  They also had split into age groups.  It was crazy because they just through out a TON of candy and then let the kids race to get it.  Even with Ellie checking out each one and being a little choosy about which ones to pic up, she still got a TON of candy.  She was even very nice and shared some candy with a little boy who was scared of going out and getting the candy.  I think this picture is funny with all of the moms pointing where to go.:)

For dinner that night we had bunny pancakes:)  Okay, so I only made one that was a bunny and the rest were normal...but this one turned out cute.

We colored eggs after dinner and Ellie thought it was great.  We let her watch while we put a couple of those cover things on the eggs and she was mesmerized by it.  

Coloring on the eggs was fun, but she didn't like that she couldn't see the writing.  

She had all of them colored rather quickly but enjoyed showing each one to Patrick for a picture and then just being able to examine them herself. I had to put a few pictures of her showing them off because Patrick and I find my facial expression pretty funny.  I was trying to make her excited, without worrying about all the eggs cracking....We only had 2 cracked eggs out of 12, I think that is quite the accomplishment.

Here is what Patrick did while we colored eggs....

The next day, April 8, 2012, the Easter bunny came.  Ellie got the new Winnie the Pooh movie, shapes box, alphabet puzzle and lots of candy.

     

My parents came up after church and had dinner with us.  My mom brought Ellie an Easter basket as well and she was very excited for more presents and treats!  With each new thing she would say ooooaaahhh and get this awesome look on her face.  My mom found these cute little chocolate bugs.  Ellie didn't realize they were chocolate at first and played with them.  Then after dinner, she figured out what they really were and I think she ate 4 of them before we noticed she was opening and eating them:)  

We all had a great Easter this year and had lots of fun spending it with family!