Easter Dinner

Per request, here is what we had for Easter dinner.  Marcus was really proud of his contribution.

Cooking them was an adventure.  The fire alarm only went off three times, I think.

And Marcus did a great job!  It was delicious.

Our friend Matt came over for dinner, and he had brought dessert.  He made Boston Creme Cupcakes.  And there are no pictures... because we ate them all too fast.

Easter Boys

The boys didn't get new clothes for Easter, but I think they still looked Easter-y and cute.  And all kids must submit to mandatory Easter pictures.

Why is it so difficult to get a picture with two boys in it when they're both being happy???

This is kind of cute - lots of personality in a still picture :)

This was after a lot of bribery

Easter Morning

Chase told us for weeks that the Easter Bunny was coming and going to bring a present for him.  Every day he'd ask if it was Easter.  Finally on Easter morning, Chase ran into the living room to find what the Easter Bunny had left.  Apparently the Bunny forgot to go by our storage unit and pick up Chase's basket.  Oops.

Chase's little gifts 

Ty's gifts

Finding a few eggs around the apartment

Checking out his ice cream truck - Chase LOVES Frostini and the Ice Cream Factory on Chuggington. He has a Frostini train, but they don't make the factory.  Instead Chase now has a Duplo ice cream truck, which seems to be an okay replacement.  :)

Tasting the chocolate bunny

Opening some presents from Gram and Pops

The happy boy enjoying Easter too

Chase was showing Ty the egg toys

Eggs Everywhere

Happy Easter!

Dying Eggs

Chase watches a Disney show called Special Agent Oso.  It teaches him cute little lessons.  Everything has "three special steps" to help you accomplish a goal, like blowing your nose, playing tag, helping set the table, etc.  One of Chase's favorite episodes is where Special Agent Oso learns to dye Easter eggs!  Thank goodness he found this episode close to Easter.  We only had to make him wait probably three weeks :)

After our tram outing, we decided it was time to dye a few eggs.  I have a bunch of pictures...

Picking the colors - Chase picked five

Stirring them up

Dropping in the eggs - Chase wanted them all to be solid colors

Chase wanted to make a red egg

Mine was blue

"Chase, show me the egg..."

Waiting impatiently

He told us when to take out each egg, and the red egg had to stay in extra long

"This is my favorite"

Ty enjoyed watching Chase dye eggs

The final products

Making silly faces with the eggs

Now if only Chase would eat one of them...

Ward Egg Hunt

Our ward's Elder's Quorum hosted an Easter Egg Hunt for the Primary kids.  Chase was really excited to hunt for eggs.  He talked about it for days before the hunt.  It was a really great event - there were tons of eggs outside and inside.

Heading out for some eggs

Marcus and Ty enjoying some sunshine

Chase realized an egg was hanging from the basketball hoop, and he was really stressed he couldn't reach it

Ty liked shaking the plastic eggs

Checking out what they collected

Ty seemed to enjoy the activity too

Marion realized Ty was a great canvas for all her stickers

3/4 family selfie on the floor in the primary room

Usually I can't go to activities on Saturdays because I teach, but we had this Saturday off.  It was fun to enjoy the activity all together.

Easter

Although Chase doesn't really understand what's happening, he was super excited for the Easter Bunny.  He's been obsessed with the movie Hop, so we've heard a lot of toddler talk about bunnies recently.  Thankfully the Easter Bunny did come, and he left Chase some toys and treats.  He got some crayons, coloring books, a toy airplane, and an airplane board book.  There were also a couple plastic eggs with M&Ms, which were probably all devoured before lunch.

Coloring Mickey with Dad

It was such a beautiful day outside.  We decided that since we didn't have church in the middle of the day, we needed to go enjoy some sunshine at the park before the first session of General Conference.  Chase was really excited to be back at the park after such a long winter, and Marcus had fun playing with him.

Of course the swings were a hit.

Chase loves being underdog pushed really high.

Talking through the playground equipment

First time riding his scooter at the park -- until now he's only ridden it in our building

I love how he falls down at the end and isn't upset -- he's more annoyed his hands are dirty than that he fell.  Chase is funny like that.  He does not like dirt on his hands!

We enjoyed General Conference at home.  Chase took a long nap after playing hard at the park, so we actually were able to listen to some.  And I practiced crocheting.  It's getting better!  I have a couple projects I want to do, and my skills have a long way to go...

The rows are getting straighter :)

For Easter dinner, we decided against the traditional ham meals.  Instead we made a big cobb salad.  After all the delicious candy and chocolate we'd been eating, it was nice to have a good salad.

We also made Red Lobster cheddar rolls.  Yum.

Okay, so maybe the real reason we had a salad wasn't just the calorie intake...  We decided to use our ham budget on dessert :)

A Carvel Chocolate Vanilla Bunny Ice Cream Cake

Chase was so excited!  Totally worth it!

Sampling the bunny

Chase didn't quite catch the whole idea of Easter -- maybe it was our fault having a cake.  I guess cakes always mean birthday :)  At least he recognized there was something special about the day.  That's a start!

He enjoyed his slice of cake while watching the Disney movie Planes with his new airplane from his Easter basket

 We had a really nice Easter at home -- pretty simple, but it was a wonderful day.

Happy Easter!