Easter 2012

For those of you that cel­e­brate Easter, I hope you had a great day yes­ter­day! We started the day off by check­ing out all the fun things in the Easter bas­ket I had put together ear­lier in the week. They loved every­thing, but espe­cially the Hot Wheels inside their big eggs! Boys, go fig­ure! We then went to church–where we had a big pan­cake break­fast & Easter egg hunt. Last year, our fam­ily made the switch from doing our big Easter din­ner just after church to late in the after­noon. It was a GREAT change for us, as well as our grand­par­ents! So, our fam­ily came over  around 4:00pm–perfect for an egg hunt before dinner!

The boys had a blast this year! It was so fun to have Lit­tle Brother participate–he loved every minute! And, some of their big­ger cousins (and Aunt) got in on the search too (espe­cially because there was some money in some of the eggs. Noth­ing like a lit­tle $$$ as a par­tic­i­pa­tion moti­va­tor for teenagers )!

Given the crazi­ness in our fam­ily over the past two weeks (which included both boys’ birth­days, fam­ily in town vis­it­ing, two fam­ily mem­bers in the hos­pi­tal, and a funeral for one of them), we kept things pretty low-key. Sadly there was no pretty fruit bou­quet or cer­tainly noth­ing fancy like this fab­u­lous car­rot insanity:

[Photo source: My Insan­ity]

But, we did have lots of yummy food includ­ing the best potato salad ever (a fam­ily recipe that I need to post some­time) and ambrosia. And, most impor­tantly, we had a nice time sim­ply enjoy­ing time together.

Happy Easter, 2012!

What kinds of Easter fes­tiv­i­ties did YOU do? Did you go all-out with fun foods/decorations or keep things rather low-key?