Easter 2010

Happy Easter everyone! I hope that everyone had a beautiful holiday. I thought it was especially special that Easter and General Conference fell on the same weekend this year. I really loved Dianne's post with her testimony of our Savior Jesus Christ. I too know that our Savior lives and loves all of us. I am so grateful for his atoning sacrifice and ressurrection that make it possible for us all to live with Him again. I love this time of year when everything is so fresh and new. Our little family had a beautiful holiday together though we really missed all of our Doolittle relatives.
We enjoyed a morning session of conference and Easter lunch with my parents and sisters. They colored eggs with the kiddos which everyone loved and we enjoyed a nice multicolored potato salad later in the week from all the hard-boiled excess in our refrigerator!
For afternoon conference we headed over to our good friends the Zufelt's. We enjoyed smoked ham (awesome job T.J.!) and all sorts of other yumminess. Then came.... the egg hunt. So if I thought we went overboard on eggs last year, I don't know what we were thinking this year. Between Ashley and I (although mostly thanks to Ashley) I think we had somewhere in the vicinity of 20 dozen eggs... for 5 children! It was insanely ridiculous, but a ton of fun! The hunt lasted FoReVeR! with pretty much all the kids having to dump their overflowing baskets and go back for more. They thought it was fantastic but I think we'll dial it down next year. Here are some pics of the day:
Grant picked precisely 3 eggs before he stopped to eat. He was mostly confused by what was going on, but he is at that stage where he enjoys picking things up and putting them in to containers so he liked this. It's just that by this point in the Easter season he recognized a plastic egg as something that had candy in it so he really didn't get too far!

L to R: Brooklyne, Tristan, Samuel, Madison, and Lillie. This is the 1st time I've ever taken a picture of all of these children and everyone is pretty much looking at the camera. I was pretty excited.

The moms and babies enjoyed relaxing on the bench while the kids filled up with sugar and the dads...

...burned stuff... Tim and I had neglected to shred personal info documents for about 2 years and the pile was so monumental neither of us wanted to shred it. Thanks guys for letting us use your facilities!

Coloring eggs L to R: Katie, Mom, Lillie, Laura, and Samuel

We had a great day with our family and friends. Thanks for sharing the holiday with us guys! We feel so blessed to be surrounded by so many great people!

Side note: The Easter Bunny leaves the kids baskets outside their bedrooms for them and it was super cute to hear them wake up and be excited about them and sit in the hallway and start scarfing chocolate. They gave Grant's basket to him without us knowing and we found him halfeay through a chocolate bar with the wrapper still on! I let him keep enjoying it, I just made sure to dig the paper out of his mouth first!