Happy Easter!!

I didn’t do as much as I had planned to help Bennett understand the real purpose of celebrating Easter, but I was glad that I at least was able to go to church on Sunday. Our ward has a “clean room” set up for moms of new babies to be able to listen to Sacrament meeting on speakers and take the sacrament without exposing the babies to too many germs. I was actually the only one in there for the first part, so it was nice to be able to just focus on Easter and not be distracted by Bennett and all the other people (it was a little awkward singing the hymns by myself though!)

We had a fun time celebrating Easter while my parents were here – my mom had stayed for a little while to help with Ryan and my dad flew out for my brother’s BYU graduation (congratulations Dave!). For Family Home Evening last week, Bennett “helped” my mom make sugar cookies, which we painted with colored evaporated milk. Bennett had fun cutting out the shapes and then painting the cookies later – especially with orange :)

On Saturday, we planted some wheat grass – I had wanted to do it earlier but by the time we got all the supplies we needed they didn’t have time to grow before Easter. Oh well – it is still fun to watch them come up this week. I told Bennett in the morning that after I showered we would go plant grass in the buckets, and I didn’t think he really understood but he kept telling Nate he wanted to go get the dirt and he was carrying around his bucket and shovel, and he was really excited to start on it. (The third picture below is what he has been doing lately when we ask him to smile – he just opens his mouth really wide)

On Saturday night, Bennett had his own little private Easter egg hunt in our backyard, courtesy of my mom (and Nate helped hide the eggs). Most of the eggs were pretty easy to find. He “found” all the orange ones first, then moved on to the other colors. He thought it was pretty fun to open them and find the candy / treats that were in them. Apparently he didn’t like the jelly beans because he gave them away (mostly to my sister’s fiance).

(once again, the “smile”)

After the little egg hunt, we dyed eggs with Dave & Liz and Cam & Bryce and my parents. We first did some with crayons on hot eggs, then did the traditional dye. It was pretty fun, even for the adults :)

And finally…a couple of Bennett seeing what the Easter Bunny brought him on Sunday.

Happy Easter!