Getting Ready for Easter

 We've had a fun week leading up to Easter! Last weekend our church had a cookout/egg hunt at our minister's house. The kids had a BLAST! They had the egg hunt, then some games for them to play and a bounce house & tire swing too! It was the first full day that Matt was back from his trip, and we'd only planned to an hour or so, but we ended up staying over 3 hours! We all had a great time and it was such a good chance for Matt & I to get to know some families from church even better. It always seems like it's hard to really get to talk at church while keeping an eye on 3 kiddos, so this was some much needed fellowship for Matt & I!

Miss Fearless loved that tire swing. She'd take a turn and then get back in line to go again.

 We have such a great crew of kids at church! I'm so so thankful that our kids have made friends so quickly. It makes my heart so happy to hear them talk about their friends and that they absolutely love to go to church! I keep thinking lately how that God has taken our (very prayerful) decision to change churches and blessed it immeasurably more than we could ever have imagined.

 After egg hunting and games, it was dinner time. We roasted hot dogs, ate chips and finally got to roast marshmellows over an open fire. I think Harrison was in little boy heaven!

 This is the one picture I got of Madeleine. I barely saw her while we were there -- she was off playing with her friends and they are big enough now to play/eat/play on their own. I did manage to snap this one of her roasting her hot dog with her friend Charlie. She talked all the way home about how much fun she had with the girls.

 We finally got around to dyeing eggs. The kids always love this, and it's always a mess! :) This year Madeleine and Harrison's favorite thing was putting those little shrink wrappers around the eggs. I supervised, but let them do it themselves. We ended up with more wrapped eggs than plain ones.

 The kit I bought (from Williams Sonoma last year on clearance -- it was great!) came with tons of cute stickers and markers to decorate with as well. The big kids loved the markers, but Charlotte's favorite was the stickers. She is big into stickers right now -- give her a piece of paper and several sheets of stickers and she's happy for as long as the stickers last.

We are gearing up to hunt eggs again tomorrow and feast on our Easter dinner! Yum!