Easter 2017

It has been fun to celebrate Easter all month long! The Saturday that was a week before Easter, every city around here held a community Easter egg hunt. (I think they all purposely do it the same week so that everyone can only go to one). We headed up to Lewisville to meet Kali and Spencer for Easter festivities. Lewisville held their egg hunt at a ball park and as crazy as it was, I thought it was very well organized! Each baseball field was full of eggs for a different age group. They had all the kids line up against the fence and as soon as the siren sounded, it was a race to fill up your basket with eggs. It took Owen a few minutes to realize other kids were after the eggs too, so he needed to rush to get them in his basket. He had a blast!

The following week, we had another Easter egg hunt! Our ward here is awesome. There are so many kids Owens age and so many moms who love to get our kids together. Of course we needed to do an Easter egg hunt of our own. Owen understood the concept much better this time around!

Then on Easter day, we went to church and were reminded of the atonement and resurrection.

When we got home from church, we had Owen find his Easter basket that the Easter bunny had filled with prizes and hid for him. He loved opening his eggs and seeing what was in his basket! 

Spencer, Kali, and Kinley came to our apartment for a 'nice' Easter dinner. Although I miss my family a lot on holidays, birthdays, etc., it is fun to be on our own and create our own holiday traditions.

Side note: I tried teaching Owen about the resurrection and why we celebrate Easter. It's hard explaining things to a two year old, but I did my best. "Jesus is the nicest person ever. When he was on this earth, people were mean to him even though he was so nice. The mean people killed Jesus. Three days later, Jesus came back to life! This is called the resurrection. Now all of us can be resurrected after we die, because Jesus did it first! We all can come back to life!" Owen's response: "Ok, let's do it. Let's go die so we can be erected." haha! The good news is that now every time he sees a picture of Jesus in his church book, he says "That's Jesus. he was erected!" and I think that's pretty good for a two year old...