Easter Weekend

We had a really sweet Easter weekend!  We did all of our favorite traditions and the weather was so nice.  That doesn't always happen in the Midwest for Easter.  I think that it helped that Easter was so late this year.

We celebrate Easter at school with our classes.  My kindergarteners participated in a Passover meal and the boys learned all about Jesus's death and resurrection.  Leo even drew it all out for us.  As always, we edited our traditions to work for us this year - no photos with the Easter Bunny, Olive passed on most Easter egg hunts and opted to help Leo instead and Saturday night church for Easter.

Olive wanted to do a photo shoot for Mr. Mitten's first Easter.  He LOVED it and now thinks all Easter baskets are for him to sit in.

We dyed eggs.  I decided to use Solo cups for our egg dye.  That was a game changer!  No more dyeing our cups funny colors.  Just dye eggs and toss the cups.

Give me all the deviled eggs and egg salads.

The tomb.  Stone rolled away.  Jesus is alive.  He also drew out the scene of Jesus riding into town on a donkey and the crowd shouting Hosannah as well as Jesus dying on the cross.  He's learning so much!

Easter best.  Give me all the matching polos and pastels for Easter.

My goal for our Easter baskets every year is to do a mix of practical (new water bottles, Spring pajamas, new shirt and new Bibles) + fun (Squishmallows, knife, fairy garden houses and games).  And everything must fit inside the basket!  The kids loved their baskets so much.

I love this crazy crew.

Full disclosure.  Olive and I decorated our mantle for Easter on Saturday.  I'll leave it up this week and take it down.  There just wasn't time to do it sooner.

Mr. Mittens really had the best first Easter ever.

We made Resurrection Rolls for Easter breakfast.

We did an Easter egg hunt in our backyard.  Spring is in full swing!

Olive helped me bake the cutest sugar cookies!

Classic Leo.

He survived on Reese's eggs and sugar cookies all weekend.  Throw in maybe a roll or two.

My MIL put together an Easter feast with every food you could possibly want.  And a bunny cake.

Olive didn't want to hunt and Leo was happy to have the help.

Fletcher's "He is Rizzin" shirt was a big hit all week.  9 year old boys are so fun!

Kevin and his brother loved hiding the eggs in hard spots for the kids.

Nanny picked out the yummiest candies.

Then my parents did an egg hunt just for Leo since he's the littlest.  He loved it.  He found the eggs quickly and his day was made when he found cars in his eggs.  All the kids got Easter treat bags from Mimi and Papaw.

The cousin crew is growing up!

I hope you had a great Easter weekend!  And if it didn't turn out so great, I'm wishing you a wonderful week ahead.  We've had those years so I'm extra thankful when we have a sweet holiday weekend.