Easter

We had a really fun Easter this year. We started off going to Evanston on Friday night and spending Saturday with the Erickson Family. We woke up Saturday morning and went to the Evanston City Easter Egg Hunt. Our cousin Machesney went with us.  After the egg hunt we met Alan's brother Jason and Sheila at the Fairgrounds with their girls. They were there getting their pigs for 4H. Ellie was loving it. She is such an animal lover!  Ethan got really into it too i guess because 2 nights later he was having dreams about wanting a pig!  

After getting the pigs we went back to Grandma and Grandpa Erickson's for a family egg hunt.  The kids loved it! Grandma Annie is so organized. She gave each kid a color egg and they had to find all the eggs that color.

 We also dyed eggs and then headed back to Salt Lake late. I think we left Evanston about 10:00ish. Just as we passed the Port of Entry Alan noticed that we were almost out of gas. Because we have a Sinclair card, we try and fill up there. We thought we'd be OK because we knew there was one in Coleville. We got there and the store wasn't open and the credit card reader wasn't working...so on we went to Wanship...we knew there was a Sinclair there too...again the credit card reader wouldn't take our card.  We decided we could make it to the Truck stop at Bell's Junction. In the meantime the kids were getting tired, but they were really excited for the Easter Bunny to come and Ellie was worried that we wouldn't make it home before he came to our house.  Ethan insisted that he could hear him on the top of the car and kept telling us to turn off the radio and listen. "Can you hear it?" "Did you hear that noise?" He was sure the Easter bunny was on the roof.  Anyway...we made it home and the first thing Ellie did was check to see if she could see any hidden eggs, and when she was satisfied that the Easter Bunny hadn't come yet, she was off to bed. Maddie who had fallen asleep in the car, woke up worried that she hadn't put her basket out. I reassured her that I had done it for her, and she too fell asleep. Ethan was so excited and quickly went to bed.  The next morning the kids searched and searched. The bunny had hidden their baskets pretty well this year.  They found Annie's basket right off (right next to her crib). They looked for about 5 minutes and started wanting help.  Ellie went out to the deck and quickly found Maddie's basket and then she started to get a little frustrated.  She looked again for a while and wanted Alan to help her. She went room to room looking in every corner and finally found her basket in the wood burning stove.  Ethan was a little bugged that he still hadn't found his. He had Alan helping him and finally they were looking in his bedroom when he said "Dad wait...my brain is giving me a hint...pause....I think it is on top of the car!" He ran outside and opened the garage. He was so excited to see his basket perched on top of the minivan. The bunny even left him a note saying thank you for the ride to Salt Lake from Evanston.

After church we went to my mom and dad's house for an egg hunt. Ellie found an egg that had a note in it to get a large "Brain Freeze" (snocone) with Grandma and Grandpa. Maddie got a coupon good for "Dinner with Grandma and Grandpa". The kids love these prizes. Maddie was really worried that she would get the one with the brain freeze for the fact that it wouldn't be open before we leave for India.  My mom assured Ellie that they would be able to get it.

We had a great weekend and it was hard to have to go back to school today! I had so much fun with my kids and Alan home!

I can't wait for the next trip...California here we come!!!