Here Comes Peter Cottontail...

This is what Easter looks like in Idaho! We had such high hopes of running around on a warm day, but with all the snow and wind lately we had to bundle up for all our outside activities.

We had an amazing Easter weekend, it started off with "The Amazing Race", a huge treasure hunt all over Idaho Falls that my mom puts on for all of us. We had a great time figuring out clues and running around town with all of my siblings and their families competing for the trophy. Chase and I took 2nd place this year, which I find pretty amazing seeing as how one of us had to stay in the car at all times because of Ruark, my brothers and sisters all have 2-4 kids each to help them! We look forward to Easter all year, and this year did not disappoint!

We stayed up late Saturday after my family party and started hiding eggs and Ruark's Easter basket. My family has always hidden the Easter baskets, I have such great memories of running all over the house searching for my basket. It was the first time we've ever been able to do these things as parents.

His Easter Basket...

We woke up this morning and walked into the front room fully expecting to have to lead Ruark around to all the Easter eggs. Not our son!!! It's almost as though he could smell the sugar from the candy in the eggs, and he went running around picking up the eggs and pulling out their sweet contents, his overflowing basket of goodies couldn't compete with those pieces of candy. :)

He found a snickers bar, he was very excited

After he found the candy eggs, he pulled out all the extra eggs we had to see if they had any yummy treats too. Look at that smirk!

My cute boy all dressed to color eggs

Our finished project

We had a wonderful relaxed Sunday. We watched General Conference, dyed eggs, played with toys, flew Ruark's new kite, played with bubbles and chalk and read Ruark his books. Finished off with Chase making us dinner which was so yummy, I feel so lucky to have a husband that is a good cook!!

Flying his kite

Playing with chalk

We had such a wonderful day at home together. We are so thankful this Easter for the atoning sacrifice of Jesus Christ and for eternal families. We hope everyone had a wonderful Easter and that you were all able to take some time to think beyond the bunnies and the candy to the wonderful Ressurection of Jesus Christ. Happy Easter everyone!