Hoppy Easter!

It's been a lovely day at our house. Not necessarily a traditional Easter, but our Easter, nonetheless.

The kids woke up at 6:45am ready to hunt for eggs (thank you, Easter Bunny!), but at our wait-til-8am insistence became couch potatoes while we slept. However, when the time came, moving them from that couch wasn't easy. The only thing that got them moving was the lure of candy... and lots of it.

In search of the elusive Easter eggs!

Look at that loot! Yum!

Going through their baskets... egg by egg... searching for the money.
At least they have their priorities straight - I would've gone straight for the chocolate.

So that was our Easter egg hunt. It culminated with a favorite breakfast of "big pancakes" and then the celebratory piece of candy or two. And then the celebratory sugar high and bouncing off the walls.

Now each year after church we usually take a nice walk through the neighborhood. This is when the weather is ideal: not cold, and not yet too hot. And in the process I snap a few traditional Easter pictures. But not so this year; things went a little differently.

First, it took some sincere convincing to even get the kids outside, and the only thing we could lure them with (besides TV and candy) was water. And that started a water fight... which wasn't so much a water fight as it was Daddy soaks Mommy, Mommy trips and falls while running away, Mommy lays there wondering if anything is broken. Thankfully the kids were on my side (even when I, er, accidentally soaked them a time or two) and they focused on getting their dad.

We did end up taking our traditional walk, it's just that we walked like a family of wet ducks.

Did our day end there? Not quite. Apparently mud pies were on the menu.

Ever heard of the saying "stirring the pot"? Literally in action here.

Yes, I've already raided their Easter baskets (thankfully they don't yet track everything down to the jelly bean). Yes, after lots of pretreating, those dirt stains came out (lots of pretreating). And yes, despite all the sugar they've eaten, they are in bed - hopefully asleep.

Happy Easter, everyone!