Easter Festivities

We have had a busy couple of weeks, with getting projects going on some of the properties here and finding new tenants for one of the houses. Max has done most of the work as well as work full time. I have helped clean the vacant house to prepare for our new neighbors but that's pretty much it. With life so busy it was a real treat to take a break, reflect on our Savior's atonement and spend some good quality time with the family!

On Friday night we dyed Easter Eggs. Charlie was thrilled and eager about this, so much that the cups of dye nearly toppled over on more than one occasion. He liked to aggressively grab the egg and drop it in the dye. We were happy he got so "egg-cited" about it but I think next time we will probably need to take more precautions to let him participate more! 

While the eggs were soaking, we distracted Charlie with a whole bunch of stickers found in the egg dying kit. 

He had a great time decorating us too!

Saturday night the Easter Bunny stopped by and left this lovely basket for Charlie. He now has everything he needs to start his own garden of strawberries, tomatoes, and peas. We're new at the gardening thing so we are starting small and it will be fun for Charlie to go outside everyday this summer to water his plants. We held off on the candy seeing as we knew he would be spoiled with it later from some other relatives!

We hid 4 eggs for him to find to see if he was that interested in finding them. He did enjoy it! When he noticed one he would get his surprised Charlie face, pick it up, look at it, then put it in his mouth...turning his lips colors. 

Can you spot the egg?

I think he liked his new toys, I caught his playing quietly with them all...

A little bit later Max's family members came over for an Easter brunch that we were hosting.  We made French Toast Raphael and had fresh strawberries, mangoes, and grapes. Yum! Max and his brothers Brent and Justin then filled and hid plastic Easter eggs out in the yard.  Thank goodness for Aunt Lisa who is always prepared with her camera and photography skills. The following pictures I stole from her!

Mr. Handsome

Once Charlie figured out that there were Jelly beans in the eggs he was content just stopping and eating the candy as he went. Many eggs spilled candy in the dirt due to Charlie's eagerness. Apparently Max thought it was okay to eat them out of the dirt...

It took a crowd to get him to put the eggs in his bucket!

It's springtime in our yard!

And a family picture. 

We then were able to attend church. This really helped us focus more on the true meaning of Easter. Charlie was a little restless (1 month until nursery) but during the last hour his grandma went to play with him in the hall so Max and I could listen better. We soon realized how tired we got without our wiggly boy!

After church we rushed off to Charlie's third and final Easter egg hunt of the day. We went to Red Grandma's house who always throws the best hunt around. She even makes sure all the eggs have the same amount of candy and counts the eggs so everyone gets the same amount! Charlie once again opened the eggs as he found them spilling M&Ms throughout the grass.  I wish I took more pictures. It was a fun hunt with all the cousins and second cousins and aunts and uncles!

It was a fun and busy day filled with family and joy! I would like to say Charlie slept well that night...but he didn't and surprise surprise...I found 3 molars in his mouth today.