Easter Weekend

Easter egg hunt, Kellogg style

We had a long wonderful weekend full of Easter activites. Friday night at TG we had an egg hunt for our Kellogg Kids. I would have loved to have it outside somewhere, but it's still too cold! (I'm not having a great relationship with Chicago right now). So we made due in a classroom. Not much of a "hunt" since most the eggs were in plain sight, but I think the kids had fun.

One of our cute little friends actually collected about 6 eggs before he looked inside and squealed "there's candy in these eggs!" Bonus.

Parker didn't carry his basket around with him, he collected as many as he could in his hands, then brought them to the basket and ran out again.

I didn't get any pictures of cute Lincoln, but he caught on to what was going on really quickly. He was actually collecting eggs and taking them to his basket!

On Saturday morning we had our next Easter egg hunt at the church. It was hosted by the nursery and was so fun! When we came in the kids worked on a craft (decorating little Easter egg ornaments).

Parker & Kai working on their ornaments

Then the kiddos hunted for eggs around the church building. Parker did great and it was cute watching him actually look and find the eggs on his own, he got so excited.

Parker & Beck checking out their loot

More candy!

On Sunday morning the Easter Bunny came (he brought leftover candy). Parker was moving too fast to let me take pictures of him, but even after three days of this, he was still super excited to see more eggs. Or was it the candy?

Lincoln upset because Parker wouldn't let him take his eggs

Tattling

Sam made crepes for our Easter breakfast. Yum!! Sidenote: Sam bought what he thought was the Tropicana version of Simply Orange called Trop50. Turns out it's an "orange juice beverage" that tastes nothing like what orange juice should taste like. It tastes like watered down orange juice with a weird after taste.

Parker dipping his strawberries into the spilled powdered sugar on the table

He's always much happier after he gets food in his belly

Of course we went to church too (no pictures in our Easter clothes), which was the best part of the week. I am so thankful for my Savior who lived and died for me so I can return to live with him again. Happy Easter!!

Easterness

We had a lovely, quiet Easter weekend here in San Diego. We kicked off the weekend with a Ward Easter egg hunt.

It took Parker a minute to figure out what was going on and that he was supposed to collect the eggs in his basket, but once he did, he got a big kick out of the whole thing.

After awhile he dropped the basket, and would find eggs and then run them back to it.

We spent the majority of the weekend lounging around attempting to watch General Conference with two babies.

On Sunday morning Parker found his Easter basket filled with lots of goodies.

Then he "hunted" for eggs (they were all in plain sight). He didn't really get the grass concept and had to dump it out before he would put any eggs in the basket.

Sunday afternoon we went out to take some pictures of the boys in their Easter outfits. Parker wasn't very cooperative, but we got a few cute ones!

Easter '09

Last weekend we drove up to St. George to celebrate Easter with Sam's family. (I'm pretty sure we're the only people who move to San Diego, and then constantly travel to other places. Don't most people vacation here?) Sam's mom's side of the family always gathers there Easter weekend so there were a lot of people in town; even all of Sam's siblings made it (except our new brother-in-law Justin)!

We had a lot of fun hanging out, playing cards, going to the St. George Arts Festival, and eating (of course)! I think I had Cafe Rio four times. Don't judge me. Annie and Meg missed the Easter "egg" hunt on Friday with all the kids, so Sarah hosted a private hunt for the Schmidt siblings. Things got a little intense. The "hunts" in St. George consist of the adults throwing candy on the ground and the kids running around filling up their bags as fast as possible. It's pretty entertaining, but even more so when all the participants are 16 or older.

McKay takes the early lead.

Parker got in on the action. Pull up your pants Stafford.




On Saturday the girls went wedding dress shopping with Annie (she's getting married in June). It was so fun to watch a little fashion show, and she ended up finding one!

Annie got engaged in March to a cute boy, McKay, who she's known since she lived in Massachusetts. Here's a picture of the happy couple.


We had lots of fun in St. George, but are SOOO glad to be home enjoying this heat wave!