Easter

We celebrated many Easter's this year and even hosted one. It started 2 weeks ago when my sister and her family came home to my parent's house. Oliver had fun as he always does with his cousins. 

Then it was time for his first of 3 Easter egg hunts. He did well trying to find his 10 eggs filled with money for his dinosaur bank. 

I had taken off of work Wednesday through Friday as I had to take Oliver to Iowa City on Wednesday for a check-up then clean the house to get ready for hosting. He's getting to be a big boy sitting in the chair at the ENT doctor. It was a long wait there but everything turned out good and he continues to do well. 

Since I had time off, I looked a lot at Pinterest and found that everyone was doing the shaving cream method of dyeing eggs this year. Instead of shaving cream though I used cool whip because I didn't want the eggs to taste like shaving cream as eggs are very porous. We ended up leaving the eggs covered in the mixture overnight in the fridge to help the color set then washed them off.

Oliver preferred the normal way of dyeing eggs. He had a Jammies Party at daycare that day so he wore his new Thomas the Train PJ's he got for Easter from Grandpa Doerschery and Grandma Sandy.

He didn't like using a spoon or the wire thing to get the eggs out and threw a tantrum when I wanted to take a picture of his green hands because he just wanted to wash it off. Little did we know that they would stay that green even after washing them.  

Our finished eggs 

 

We hosted the Peterman Easter on Saturday when we also celebrated our family Easter as we were headed down south on Sunday. Oliver had received many little presents from Grandma Shirley and Grandpa Chuck but his favorite was this airplane. 

A pro at the hunt now, he took off running for the eggs.  

Look at all those eggs! 

It was a beautiful weekend, so warm we spent most of the afternoon outside. 

Sunday as I said we headed south to celebrate with my family. We started in Long Grove for a Doerscher celebration brunch so my Grandpa could join all of the rest of us. I think the highlight for Oliver though was that it was across from a fire station and that there was a fire so he got to see all the firemen/women drive away in the firetrucks with their lights and sirens on. There was also a park and it was beautiful again, dare I say too warm for the way we were dressed. We left our house Sunday and it was raining and 52 degrees so the upper 70's-80's was warm and lovely!

We headed in to Great Billie's for another Easter egg hunt. This years picture of all the great-grand kids with Grandma minus quite a few of them. 

Showing Great Billie the eggs he found 

It was a great Easter this year as we are very blessed to have so much family to spend time with.