Happy Easter

We started our Easter 2014 celebration on Saturday by putting on our raincoats and walking up to the dairy egg hunt.  We braved a downpour, winds and thousands of people to let Levi pick up chocolate eggs.

Some of the eggs had orange stickers on them and could be traded in for prizes.
Levi's favorite part of Easter?
This sword he got as a prize...actually he got two!

I also baked up a storm on Saturday.  Made this Greek Easter bread.  It was good and turned into really great french toast for Easter breakfast.  I also made rolls and a cheesecake to take for Easter dinner at my parent's house.  I'm really following through on that goal to bake from scratch more.  Although...I think it was actually Gabe's goal.  We did our own little Easter eve dinner and Gabe made a bourbon brown sugar glazed ham.  It was soooo yummy!  I think the oven was only off for the two hours I went and met my sister for sushi lunch.

Of course I can't leave out the dyeing of our eggs!  Levi did a great job.  The only egg that was cracked was cracked by yours truly.  This kid has a steady hand.

I think the Easter bunny might have woken Levi up when he was hiding eggs Easter morning.  Notice the time in this picture?

 He was up before 6am.  This was after we convinced him to just lay in bed with us for a few moments.  He then proceeded to guilt us into getting up because he was so excited.

The Easter bunny hid the eggs we dyed all over the house.

And he even hid some eggs with treats inside out in the front yard!

We spent the rest of our Easter Sunday with family.  First at church...and then at my parent's house.  Elijah's favorite part of his first Easter was the "grass" in his basket.  And the noise the plastic eggs made in the basket.  Levi was pretty excited about the Easter bunny leaving money in the eggs at Grandma and Grandpa G's house!

Happy Easter!