Easter 2013

Brenton has been anticipating easter this year since just after Christmas was over.  He asked every week if it was spring yet so easter could come.  Easter this year also happened to fall on Jon's birthday. It was kind of funny trying to explain all that we were trying to celebrate on this special day.   I would ask him things like, "who are we celebrating on easer?"  He would say, "DADDY!!"  And then I would explain it's daddy's birthday but on easter we celebrate the Savior Jesus Christ.  Then later I would ask something like, "Who's birthday is this Sunday?" and he would say, "Jesus!!" haha. Poor kid...it was kind of confusing. Then you add in the easer bunny and it got even more crazy!  

It was a fun day though. Saturday we did the neighborhood easter egg hunt.  There were hundreds of kids and when they gave them the go the site reminded me of watching terminates eat up a piece of wood.  There were thousands of eggs all up and down the hill, and in seconds the swarm of kids would  move across the hill and the eggs were gone like that.  I grabbed Brenton and sprinted w/ him to the far side where we were lucky enough to find a couple eggs before they disappeared.  

My sista Kat had been visiting that week before too so her kids came along and B had a blast w/ his cousins.  

Sunday was a great day!! We made breakfast for Jon in bed, and then had B find his easter basket.  The silly easer bunny left a trail of grass on the family floor so it was an easy find.  We spent the rest of the day until our 2:30 time church started trying to talk about the real purpose of easter.  We drove up to the top of the hang gliding hill and watch some Mormon Videos on the resurrection, and helped B prepare for his first talk in primary.  It was so neat to be able to help him focus more especially on the Savior and learn a little deeper b/c he was preparing to teach the other kids that day.  He did such a good job on his talk...Jon and I were proud parents!  

After church we went over to our friends house for dinner and an egg hunt.  

Sunday night we were talking about a tradition we wanted to start that would help Brenton focus and be excited on the real purpose of easter.  So we decided to get some white balloons and release them.  Since Easter was over we did it for FHE the following night.  We wrote on our balloons why we love Jesus and then took them outside and let them go.  It was a gift Brenton could give to the Savior.  He loved it and it's something I'm excited to do every year now.  

on top of the hang gliding hill before church.  Loved the clearance mint colored pants I found for B's Easter outfit!

Love this handsome guy!  

You will notice one of the balloons is a star...that's b/c Brenton popped one of the balloons on our way home and after 2 failed attempts to find another cheap helium balloon we opted to hit up the dollar store that only carried helium shape balloons.