Happy Easter!

I absolutely love this time of year! I love the newness of everything around us- flowers starting to bloom, the days starting to warm up which leads to more time outside enjoying all the signs of Spring, and the celebration of Easter! What greater gift of newness and renewal of life could there be than the resurrection of our Savior? I love that Easter helps us to remember that amazing gift with more focus and to really contemplate what that means in our lives!
This year we were able to participate in an Easter egg hunt with friends from church and even our next door neighbors! Garrett was in the first group to find their eggs!

He was a pro!

Garrett in egg-finding action!!!

He was so proud of all the eggs he found!

Tori got to find her eggs with the second group of kids!

She took her time at first and then we couldn't stop her!!!

She was so proud of herself!

Checking out what their eggs were hiding!

Our chocolate monster- who knew?!!

Yesterday we colored Easter eggs! 

A little egg dying action!

Tori and Garrett loved checking on the eggs to see if they were done!

They found it so exciting to see how the eggs had changed!

Oooh, that one's done!

Tori and Garrett looked so adorable for church yesterday!

Tonight we had a lesson about Jesus and all that happened on that first Easter for FHE. Tori was able to tell us almost the entire story all by herself! It is so neat to see our kids learning of their Savior and feeling of His love for them!
For our FHE treat we made Easter cookies! Tori loved rolling out the cookies!

So Garrett had to give it a try as well- he did great!

We made cookies shaped like eggs, bunnies, carrots, and butterflies!

Then it was time for frosting and sprinkles!

Yummy!!!

Yep, they were definitely yummy!!!

Happy Easter from our family to yours!!!