Easter Traditions

The kids had a great time dying eggs.  It was a little easier this year.  A LITTLE easier.  It’s still always a stressful thing to have all this dye there waiting to be tipped over.  I got some great ideas from a blog I read around that time, but didn’t see them until after we did our eggs.  But next year, I want to wrap rubber bands around the eggs before dipping them.  The stripes turn out great!  I also saw that some people paint their eggs after they’ve dyed them and they’ve dried.  So, we’ll be getting a little more creative next year.

This was my one creation.

We filled all the eggs over at Michelle’s house a couple days before the hunt.  We never counted all the eggs though, before setting them out, but they filled an entire huge garbage bag.  We were crazy enough to think that wouldn’t be enough.

The kids swam in Grandma and Grandpa’s heated pool. 

We let the little ones go first. 

(Dagen, Lucy, Jameson, and Lydia)

And then we let the bigger kids head out. 

It’s been so much fun living close to so much family. 

I love the way the kids like to organize their candy.  It’s just like Halloween!  I remember doing the same when I was a kid, just to see how much of what you had.