Easter

     Hallelujah!  He is risen.  This year was the first time in a long time that I felt I was able to truly reflect on what happened on Good Friday and Easter.  We are so blessed to know God and to have our faith.  We were able to spend time with everyone on Easter too!   We started with an Easter egg hunt at Ovid with Dad, Delaine, Maddie and Kaleb.  It was Colt's first hunt, so he wasn't too sure about it.  He did not want to put his eggs in the basket!  But he loved playing in the bucket where everyone threw their empty eggs.
  

  On Sunday, we went to church with my mom and then to Chuck and Sue's to do a mini celebration. We opened Easter baskets with Josh and Beth and Chuck hid eggs in the yard for Colt. Sue bought him eggs that were basketballs, soccer balls and footballs. He LOVED them. But instead of putting them in his basket, he went to the basketball goal and tried to shoot them :). 

                                                           Mickey Mouse Underwear!

 Next we went to my aunt and uncles. My Aunt and Uncle moved home from the Ukraine this year, so we were able to have Easter at their house, which is where we had all of our family get togethers growing up. It was so much fun to walk around the house again and reminisce. They have been gone for 15 years. We had a HUGE meal and then the kids got to do another Easter egg hunt. Colt was starting to get the hang of it this time and even collected a pine cone! It is so much fun to watch him with Allie. They are just 6 months apart, and he kept trying to give her hugs and kisses.

   For dinner, we headed to my mom's. They had a neighborhood egg hunt. Colt was on a mission. He was fast and furious and his basket was so full he couldn't keep all the eggs in. Chuck, Sue, Josh, Beth and my grandparents and Great-Grandma Helen came over for dinner. And Colt got even more fun stuff.
It was a great day. It is so much fun to watch Colt grow up and enjoy holidays. We are so thankful that we live close enough to everyone that we can see everybody on Easter.