We had our big family Easter dinner yesterday. Laurel & Roine came out with their kids. Sandy & Robert and Grandma Shirley came from the hotel to spend some time with us. Debby and Jeff and their friend Lindsay came, and my parents, Tom & Jenny and their kids, Patsy, Wendy, David, Jonathan and Tiffany were already here (since they were staying at our house). So our house was packed but it was SO nice to have everyone here. We had conference on, and we had a really early dinner, it was more like a giant Easter lunch. I don’t have any pictures from having everyone over, but the food was great. After getting home from the wedding Friday night, Kyle and I just threw the roasts in the crock pot and got them started and we woke up to the smell of yummy food. We had a pot roast, and a lamb roast, a medley of broccoli, cauliflower, carrots and yellow carrots, fresh pineapple and strawberries, mashed potatoes and rolls (with lots of homemade jams of course). After dinner, Sandy, Robert, Grandma, Wendy, David, Jonathan, & Tiffany hit the road to head back home to California, since Robert was really adamant about leaving AT 3:00 that afternoon.
This morning we woke up pretty early due to excited kids who were anxious to search for Easter eggs. So we waited until everyone was awake and we gave them each a basket and said go find them. This year the Easter bunny changed things up and instead of hiding the hard boiled eggs, he hid plastic eggs with goodies in them.
Jeremy thought it was so funny that the Easter Bunny hid an egg in Daddy’s shoe. 🙂
Chloe was introduced to her first lolly pop, and she LOVED it! She had quite the sticky drool all over her front she was salivating so much over her lolly pop!
The girls received cute glasses in their Easter baskets:
I love this picture of Dinah and Annaleah playing with the whistles they found in the plastic eggs:
After the morning festivities, and breakfast (which consisted of turnovers and bacon mmmmm) our remaining visitors gathered up the rest of their stuff, and finished loading up their cars so they could head back home to California. But not without a little bit more fun. 😉 Our silly Californian visitors were so excited to see snow that they couldn’t leave without having snowball fights.
Mom and Dad went at it while they were brushing off their car. I LOVE that you can see the snowball Dad threw at Mom, mid-flight! And they were having such a good time.
Tommy and Tyra were having a great time throwing snowballs at Tom too.
We had a really nice Easter, and now our guests have gone, and it’s time to get the house back to normal! 😛