The Hansens: Easter

I'm beginning to LOVE this holiday more and more every year. Along with the "fun" stuff there is to do I started pulling activities from a book I bought a couple of years ago, A Christ Centered Easter and have had so much fun with the family learning so many new things about Christ and his life the week before Easter hits. I'm so grateful for my Savior, for the Atonement, and for the many blessing I have been given

Our neighborhood did an egg hunt the weekend before Easter, which I actually LOVED because it got all the "fun" hype out of the way

Sophie was up first

She wanted to start the race as soon as she saw all the eggs on the grass. We have been having our own egg hunts in the back yard and we have no rules at that one, so she didn't think she had to wait around for some bell to tell her to go

As soon as the bell rang there was no stopping her, she was off filling her basket up with eggs.

The funny thing is she just loved the eggs

Then, she discovered the chocolate inside and took a new liking to her eggs and wanted "cady" from every single one

She was content sitting and eating her chocolate while Allie hunted away

Next up was Allie's age group

Allie was more than ready; when the bell rang she sprinted off the line

Each kid was able to collect a dozen eggs which ended up being plenty

During the week we got together with some of my work friends to dye eggs and decorate sugar cookies. It's always a hit with all the kids, although we had 4 extra kids this time and it was a little crazy trying to help 12 kids dye eggs; don't know what we were thinking

Sophie was ready to be strapped up to the table to start eating some lunch

Kendall, Sophie, and Tenley; Sophie's little buddies Kendall and Sophie share the same birthday and Tenley beats them both by just a few weeks.

So fun having such good little buddies to hang out with

Allie ended up decorating every kind of sugar cookie shape that was possible

Another excitement during our weak was Allie having "egg-tails" again this year. She requested them and I wasn't quite sure if she was going to have enough hair to get eggs in. To both of our surprise, she got one egg in each piggy. She was excited to wear them to her pre-school Easter party

Easter morning hit and during the night the bunny arrived as well as Max our cat. The bunny leaves a trail of string to the baskets and Max discovered the string during the night and Allie quickly found her basket before I even had a chance to get out of bed; that was a first.

Sophie was most excited about her chocolate bunny. She figured a way to get the bunny out of the package and ran around all morning with the ears in her mouth. She almost downed the whole bunny that morning before I had to intervene and give her some real food

Grandma Barb got the girls matching Easter dresses; we are so grateful she always thinks of the girls. She received a new dress from her grandma every Easter growing up and says everyone should have a new dress for Easter Sunday. The bunny brought dad a new hot pink tie which he willingly wore for Allie:)

Trying to snap some shots of my cute Easter girls. I was so excited that Sophie's hair was long enough for me to take the curling iron to it and I gave her ringlets