I hope you all had a wonderful Easter day, doing whatever it is you and those near and dear to you do.
The girls went up to Idaho City the weekend prior to celebrate with their dad and step-mom, Shellee's, family. They always have a really good time up there, so thats good. :)
We were originally going to go to my mom's house on Easter and do all of the traditional Easter stuff there, but last minute, she decided to go out to Ontario to her sister's house. Her mom and dad went out there, and unfortunately my grandfather is not doing the best, so she wanted to go in the event the situation was different next year.
Anyways, it worked out because we just moved all of our plans up a day to Saturday, which meant fewer lines at brunch and that nothing was closed! :)
We started out with their hunt for their Easter baskets. It started their first Easter together...the Easter bunny left them each a clue not a basket. They had to go figure out what the bunny meant on their clue. Sometimes that clue leads to another clue, sometimes it leads to your basket...that bunny is a tricky guy!
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| Getting ready to receive their clues! All super excited as you can tell. :) |
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| When they were younger it was always a trick to get the clues out somewhere for the girls to see, WITHOUT them seeing you do it... BUT since none of them believe in the Easter bunny anymore, it meant Louis got to play the 'bunsen' (yes that says bunsen aka bunny) |
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| As they've gotten older, the clues have gotten weirder and more difficult to decipher....as you can tell by Rachel's face. I believe her clue, and she only got one this year said- "I'm so sweaty." |
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| hmmm....where to begin with THAT one.... |
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| Bella's also on the hunt. All her clue said was "Walksen" aka walk |
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| Zo finally found hers under piles of clothes in the laundry room. |
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| All three cuties finally found their baskets!!! :) AND if you can't tell- they have Easter Bunny SLOTHS!!!!! Yes, how awesome is that?!?! It took every ounce of self control I had not to buy one for myself, but honestly, I think it's weird when adults have stuffed animals- so I opted against it. :) |
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| Trying to bring in the power of Spring to Boise. Summer dress, wedges, fire red hair...c'mon mother nature...what more do you need from me?!?! |
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| Brunch. We went to the Black Bear Diner |
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| After brunch, we came home and dyed Easter eggs! |
After eggs, I packed the girls a picnic and they went out and about the neighborhood park. I took their eggs and made devil eggs and potato salad for dinner at my madres. We decided to have an Easter BBQ instead of the more traditional ham dinner. A- my mom and I don't really like ham. B- The girls and my parents both had it the week prior at Shellee's parents house (yes, my parents went too....we all get along in one big communal type of way), and C- my parents were having it the following day, on Easter, at my aunts house.
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| Even at almost 33 years old, my mama still gets me an Easter "basket". Nothing fancy of course, but it made me smile- she put two Easter hand towels and a bottle of Mexican Vanilla in there. Thanks mamacita rita |
After dinner, we came home and the girls did an egg hunt... IN THE DARK! We hid their eggs in some difficult places, all on the lower level of the house, and turned out all but one light upstairs, and the OUTSIDE porch light- they found all but one! Thank God for plastic eggs. :)
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| The hunt is about to start.... |
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| This is the last picture I got obviously because of the lighting. Once they all made it downstairs- that light went out. No flash lights. Sink or swim kid....sink or swim! :) |
