Easter

This is a very long lots of Easter pictures blog update! On Good Friday we dyed our eggs. It's amazing that it only takes about 10 minutes to do the actual dying, but it was anticipated all day.
Xander and Ari were very into it.


Arianna was able to do it all herself. She watched how the other kids were using the egg wand thing and then she did it, no help please.




As soon as Xander and Ari dyed thier last eggs they dyed thier hands. I was looking at one of the girl's eggs and turned my head to see Xander's hands fully emersed in the green dye. Of course Ari's hands were next. So then we were off to the bath.


SATURDAY
The day before Easter was Gabe and Angie's Anniversary, so they dropped off the boys at our house while they went out for the night.
The older boys go immediatly to the basement/play room as soon as they walk in my door, so the big girls stayed upstairs with the babies for a while.

Eating dinner.



At one point Nikolas and Kaleb were both tired, and they both only wanted me. Kaleb was screaming at me for holding Nikolas, and Nikolas would not be satisfied with Faron, so we ended up like this. They both fell asleep though.
After Grammy got off work she and Pop came down to help corral all the kids.

Angie told us not to pick out Isaiah's hair or it would turn into a 'fro, so Grammy really wanted to. It didn't get very big though, just kind of puffy.

Grammy got pounced first thing in the morning. Pop got pounced to, but I have no picture of that.

Kaleb really liked the piano, he spent alot of time playing it.

All the kids after Church. Pay no attention to the screaming boys...

Isabella's Easter dress...

Easter Dinner
Easter egg hut time. We wanted to do it outside, but it started raining so we had to move it into the basement. Which means it took more time to get the eggs ready than it did for them to hunt them, but they got the candy and that's really what it's all about anyway.


Ari found her first egg and immediatly opened it, then she felt no need to keep moving and searching for more eggs when she could just stay in this spot and eat chocolate.





cracking the eggs and dumping out the candy




Now that they were on a sugar high we turned on some music and they danced. Pop got Isabella her first Beatles Album for her birthday, so here they are dancing to that.

Isaiah is always more than happy to dance with the girls, and they are thrilled to have a boy partner who is as tall as they are.


Reading time with Uncle Gabe. Miah found once of our school books all about animals so all the boys gathered round that book for a good half hour.


Very fun Easter!