Easter

This was the first time ever that we've celebrated Easter at a place other than our home or Grandma Perkins' home, and there were several differences that changed our annual traditions.

It was the first time that my children woke up on Easter morning with their cousins! They've never seen what others got on Easter morning and visually compared it to what they received.

Traditionally, every year the boys dye their own Easter eggs, and then the eggs are hidden on Sunday morning by the Easter Bunny for them to find. This year, the hard-boiled eggs weren't hidden until Sunday afternoon, and Ammon took it upon himself to hide them.

We almost always do our annual Easter egg hunt for adults and kids on Sunday afternoon after church. This year, we did it on Saturday night instead because we knew we'd be busy on Sunday trying to clean out the house and pack the cars and check-out of the Lodge.

But even though there were differences, there was still much of the same...we still did the dying of the eggs on Saturday, received buckets of goodies from the Easter Bunny on Sunday morning, went to church with family on Sunday, and ate our traditional Easter dinner all together. And despite the differences in our annual traditions, this Easter was one of my favorites ever!

Saturday evening

Sunday morning