We celebrated Easter all weekend long in this house! The festivities started on Thursday when Sam took these little goodies to all his friends at school for his Easter party... thanks Pinterest!
Who has an original idea anymore?!
Saturday started out with an Easter celebration at Amanda's church. Fairhaven's first annual community-wide Easter celebration was a huge success! Over 1,500 people came out to play games, win prizes, find Easter eggs, eat food and praise Jesus. Here's to a new yearly pastime in this town!
The petting zoo
Cameron rode his first horse! This cowboy loved it!
Sam played in the corn troughs and won a cupcake on the cake walk!
Kayden and his prizes he won at the games
Then sometime Saturday night, the Easter Bunny left this for Sam. A wheel barrel and shovel, a peas and carrot baseball bat and ball, some major bubble supplies, sidewalk chalk, popsicle makers, and some Elmo flatware, books and stickers. That bunny knows my boy :)
He went straight for the bubbles!
Daddy made special Easter Sunday pancakes before church. Pancakes are pretty special in this house anyway, but these really took the cake! (No pun intended.)
A family photo before heading off to church...
After church, we had lunch and an Easter egg hunt at Aunt Suzy's. There no less than 300 eggs for these five little guys to hunt. They would fill up their buckets, come back to the house for drop-off, then go back out and reload! I tried to get a picture of all the egg hunters, but getting them to all look the same way at once is quite a task...This is as good as it got!
Sam insisted on getting this egg for his basket!
Caleb and Austin headed off to the right of the driveway to an area all to themselves.
Sam was still working on the concept of egg hunting. He would stop ever so often,
sit down and dump his eggs out while he rested up.
These egg hunters had the hang of this game...and a momma to help hold the bucket!
Kayden didn't let climbing a tree stop him from finding every egg!
Counting the loot!
This picture cracks me up because no one seems to notice
Sam is sneaking sips of Daddy's drink! :)
It was Suzy's birthday, so she opened gifts after lunch. When she finished, she said she had some "games" for us all to play. So, we headed back outside.
First up, an egg race between the ladies...
Grammy wins!
(Although her methods were controversial)
The guys turn, except they had to balance the eggs in their mouth!
In the midst of commotion (cheating) all around, Drew stays calm and walks on...
During the race, Sam and Grammy are driving the tractor.
But in the end, it's Michael who wins the race!
Next up, an all out silly string battle!
With a little training, these guys were really opponents!
And, what's an Easter egg hunt without a blue robin's egg to make your lips match your shirt!?
Happy Easter everyone! May we never lose sight of the sacrifice for which we celebrate!
Easter is what makes Christmas so special!
