Easter

We had a super fun Easter starting with egg shaped sugar cookies on Monday, climaxing with a sugar high that lasted through Saturday and into Sunday and ended in a bellyache.  Ah, traditions.

We spent Saturday morning dying eggs and then we went to the egg hunt at the city park.  The boys made a haul, well, mostly Dash did, but Colt didn't realize that Dash had more eggs so it worked out.  Back at home, Brandan and I did a treasure hunt for the boys that ended in a Cadbury egg, a treat we discovered the boys don't like. 
Because the day was so beautiful, we decided to go for a walk back over to the park.  Dash climbed to the top of the igloo shaped monkey bars and then fell off onto his little tailbone.  Poor guy, he was moving like an old man come Sunday morning.  In fact, he dropped something on the floor and rather than go through the pain of bending to pick it up, he kicked it all the way across the floor to Brandan and asked him to reach down and get it. 

Dyeing eggs

The finished products.

The egg hunt.  You can see Dash going like crazy in the background.

The egg hunt.

The loot.

Brandan is reading the boys the next clue in the treasure hunt.

On Sunday the boys got dressed in their Easter best, or rather, the best we had to offer and we went to Church and then over to the Ivies for dinner and another little egg hunt.

Easter Sunday morning

The Ivie egg hunt

The Ivie egg hunt

I should say that with all this Easter commercialism we did try to stress the real reason for Easter, the Savior's Atonement and Resurrection.  I don't think we did a very good job though because I asked Colt what happened when Jesus was resurrected and he said, "Some bad guys killed Jesus and then He came and cut off their arms".  Close enough.