Easter Fun

Easter - we are not church goers, but I like Easter because the colors are pretty and the girls get to wear fancy dresses.  This year, Saya wore a pastel green puffy dress with pink cashmere cardigan.  She thought she looked fabulous and she could not stop twirling.  "Saya, dance!" she exclaimed and spun, looking at her dress puff up.  Sean also was looking forward to Easter, because he likes to egg hunt.  Mike hid the eggs and three toys in the front yard while I distracted the children.  Sean was trying to make the sense out of the whole Easter bunny business and how could I have explained to him why a bunny would hide eggs for the children to find??  How would a bunny carry eggs?  Why would he want to hide them instead of give them to you?  When would he hide them?  Why, Mommy?? Why???  It is just a big mystery, son...  What is a mystery???  There was no end to the conversation...

Once the children were unleashed, Sean dashed towards the left side of the yard and immediately started finding some eggs.  We prepared 16 eggs and Mike had placed them everywhere, in the raised bed garden, on the top of bushes, by the fern etc...  Saya followed Sean and managed to pick up some eggs.  Noah on the other hand had just one thing in his mind, get the heck out of there and be set free.  When we prevented him to venture out of our yard, he got very upset.  He was put back in the house after a short while.  Maybe next year, Noah!

I took a cute video of Sean and Saya working together to find eggs.  It was sweet of Sean to help Saya find some eggs, too.  In the end, Sean found 11 eggs, Saya 4 eggs and Noah 1.  They each got a funny singing bear toy I found with Jen at Fred Meyer the night before.  Nana came over later for a family Easter dinner and we feasted on lamb chops with balsamic vinegar reduction, green beans and mushroom casserole, deviled eggs, Nana's special potato salad, and green salad.  I am starting to believe that I am pretty decent at cooking up special occasion meals.  Being a food lover has its merits! 

We had a pretty relaxing and fun Easter this year.  Hope everyone had a good one as well.