Easter Weekend

Our Easter was really wonderful this year. My sister Bethany decided to host it. So after Ryan got home from work on Friday, we traveled down to Hurricane. My mom and dad had left a little earlier than us and had been nice enough to take Alex down with them. So he was all ready for bed by the time we got there at 10:15pm. We stayed up for a while talking and putting the rest of the Easter stuff together for the next day.

The next morning, both boys woke up so happy and Alex could not wait for his cousins to arrive. We had planned on having the Easter egg hunt in Beth's backyard, but as luck would have it... it was raining. So we went over to the school she works at and hid all the eggs there. It was actually quite a fun place to have an egg hunt. Little Darek sat with Uncle Chad the whole time and played with a few toys they had gotten for him. After all the eggs were found and the kids hopped up on sugar, we went back to Beth's. The girls got dinner all ready while the guys got to play a little. The little boys wanted to go out back and sword fight with their Uncle Chad. Uncle Chad could not turn them down of course! I asked Ryan to go take some pictures, and before too long he had joined in on the fighting as well. One funny story about that. My dad had been out back watching and came inside totally cracking up. We asked him what had happened. He said that they had been playing Ryan and Chad against Tyson and Alex. Tyson had gone down and it was just Alex left to fight Ryan and Chad. I guess Alex looked up at them, took his sword and pretended to slit his throat and fell down dead. (It sounds pretty gruesome writing it down, but I promise it was funny.) I guess he knew it was an impossible feat and didn't want to be taken alive :)

Dinner was great! We decided that Hayley's older kids, Tyson and Anna, would be sleeping over that night. Mike and Hayley went home with little Brayden. After we settled down from dinner, we asked the kids if they would like to go to the store to pick something out with the money they had gotten in their Easter eggs. So Beth and I took them to Walmart to each spend their $7.00. Anna picked out a Cinderella set, Tyson got a Star Wars figurine and Alex got a few hot wheels cars and a cowboy play set. They were all thrilled and couldn't wait to get home to play with their new toys.

The next morning we got up and were all going to sacrament meeting at Beth and Chad's ward. We packed up so that we could leave right after the meeting. We had planned it so the kids had matching clothes. It was so cute. My boys had on striped shirts with orange vests and Hayley's boys had on the same shirts with green vests. And Anna wore a green dress. The kids looked adorable, so we had to get pictures of them all before we left.

After pictures, we said goodbye. Another fun trip down south. We were so sad that we didn't have time to stop by and say hi to Ryan's brother. We didn't even really get into St. George this time. Next time!




























Part 2 of Easter soon to come!