Easter Weekend 2016

As I mentioned on Friday, we spent Easter weekend in Wichita this year.  On Saturday morning, we took the boys to visit the Easter Bunny at the mall.  We hadn't had a chance to do that with Easter's early date this year, so it was the perfect opportunity.  We arrived shortly after 9am, the Bunny's start time per the mall's website, but turns out he didn't arrive until 10am.  We hung out with the rest of the mall walkers and wasted too many quarters on old gumballs, trains, and runts.


Because we had been waiting so long, we were obviously first in line, and the picture people threw in a few free Easter greeting cards.  As for the Bunny, Holden wasn't a fan.  He didn't cry, but he also wasn't thrilled to be sitting on his lap.


Later on Saturday, we went to Craig's sister Monica's house to dye Easter eggs, eat Mexican, and watch the KU game.  Craig prefers not to talk about the rest of the night (KU's loss), but the Easter egg decorating was a success!  This was Holden's first time dying eggs and he seemed to know exactly what to do, minus when he tried to drink the dye.











Yesterday, we woke to a ground covered in snow.  That's right.  SNOW.  Like 2 to 3 inches of it!  This is a picture my sister-in-law took yesterday morning at a Wichita park.  Completely insane if you ask me, especially when later in the day we were outside without coats.


Family came over around 12:45 (Brantley asked alllll morning "When are my cousins coming??"), and after lunch, the nine grandkids got their Easter baskets from Grandma and Papa.










Then we headed outdoors for an Easter egg hunt.  Again, Holden knew exactly what to do and at one point, he started fighting Brantley over an egg!










We headed home in the late afternoon and still had to celebrate our little Easter when we got there.  However, late bedtimes and a busy weekend meant for some pretty tired and cranky kids.



I bribed them with Easter candy for one decent photo on our porch.  And to my surprise, it **sort of** worked!







That takes care of our Easter weekend.  I hope everyone had a great holiday!

13 comments:

  1. Such handsome boys you have! We had some snow in WI on Thursday, but was all gone by Friday evening. So glad you had a great weekend!

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  2. Love all of the pictures of them decorating eggs and doing the egg hunt. Adorable. Your front porch picture bribing worked I think because you got some cute ones.

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  3. What a fun weekend! The shots of your boys on the porch are absolutely adorable! Yay for bribery that works!!

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  4. Oh poor Craig! I thought about you guys when we watched the ending of the game...at least it was late and didn't ruin a whole day though?? Also, the porch pictures are SO cute!!! Well all of these are. Looks like you had a great weekend, but we missed you guys here!

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  5. Thats the best looking Easter bunny Ive seen yet! Your bribe totally worked, the boys look darling!

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  6. haha well the dye looks pretty tasty...I actually mentioned that it looked like a pretty drink and then had to backtrack to make sure Aria didn't try to sip any.
    Bribery at it's best! You got some great pics.

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  7. Not only has Connor never colored eggs but he has never meet the Easter Bunny either! I'm slacking!

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  8. Adorable pictures - so worth the effort! They look so handsome! I'm slacking in general on dying the eggs part - to be honest all the mess scares the crap out of me :) I'm sure they loved it though!

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  9. What a fun Easter weekend! But yes, that so was ridiculous! :)

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  10. Sounds like you guys had a great weekend! I bet the boys loved that they got to spend Easter with their cousins! Also, I don't know what has been going on with the weather but literally yesterday it was 80 and we wore shorts and then today it rained and it was super cold. So confusing! At least the picture of the snow is pretty :)
    Love the soccer and basketball Easter baskets! Where did you find those?

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  11. Love the Easter egg dying pics; he looks so happy! And both boys with their baskets! So so cute!!!

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  12. Adorable pictures! I especially love the porch ones. How cute are they? Looks like a great Easter weekend!!

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