Easter 2010

Easter festivities started off with a bang this year. On Wednesday Haley had an Easter Egg hunt at school and had a blast. Fast forward to Friday. Wouldn't you know I work for the only bank in the US that has to work on Good Friday but that's ok. Matt did some much needed maintenance work outside on his day off and we had our furniture delivered! Our house is starting to look more and more like a home finally. We decided to get in our Easter service early by going to the Friday evening service. Prior to service they had a large egg hunt for the kids. Haley was excited to get her hunt on and this was Jackson's first.

Haley planning out her strategy


Mommy and her precious babies


Jackson excited to get his hunt on (or excited that he just spit up?)


They split the hunts off by age group which was nice. Haley and Jackson were together in the birth to 2 year old group. Haley took full advantage of being on of the older kids for once.
Ready, Set, GO!!!

Jackson getting in on the action.

The Vara Family Easter 2010

Haley was very nice to fill Jackson's basket too! Grandma and Uncle John joined us for the hunt and service and afterwards we went for dinner. After a nice evening we had a big day planned for Saturday. Just when you have big plans something happens. Turns out I got food poisoning and was SICK in bed all day Saturday. I'll spare all the details but I've figured one way of shedding all the baby weight is to just get sick. Matt had double kid duty all day but luckily I started to feel better by Easter Sunday. On Sunday we were invited to another egg hunt put on by the neighbors at the park followed by an Easter Brunch at a neighbor's house. It was nice to finally get to meet everyone!

The Purple Slate kids lined up by age getting ready to get the eggs. Haley was first

And their off...

Haley's trying to figure out how to get an egg at the top of the rock wall

Jackson was just watching this hunt

The Easter Egg Hunt Kids

We then headed up to Grandma's for Easter dinner with the family. Grandma had Easter baskets for the kids and yet another egg hunt for Haley. Yes, that is #4.

Uncle Mark helping Haley with the egg hunt

After finding all her eggs Haley wanted to go swimming. It was quite cold but that didn't stop her.

Kendall stopped by to say Hi. Haley LOVES Kendall and got so excited when she got there. When it was time to leave we told Haley to give Kendall a hug goodbye. Haley made her stand in the water first then gave her a hug.

After a delicious meal we colored Easter Eggs.

I'm so glad my mom had Easter eggs to color and baskets for the kids. Since I was sick on Saturday I didn't get around to doing that this year with the kids :( Who says you can't get an Easter basket after Easter? Maybe it will be a, "YAY it's Springtime" basket instead. I hope everyone had a wonderful Easter.