We went to an Embassy Easter Party and Brighton had his very first egg hunt! I LOVED IT!!!! I seriously was so happy cloud nine. It was a very MOM MOMENT for me. We showed him what to do with the first egg and he just took off! He hunted for eggs all by himself and I just loved watching him roam around the grass picking up eggs. It was just the sweetest thing for me to witness! I couldn't believe how much I loved it.

The Easter Bunny was there and Brighton sat on his lap, but never smiled and was so serious the whole time. He sat there FOREVER, but looked afraid the whole time and never cried. It was quite strange, actually. I couldn't understand why he didn't get down, because he didn't look at all like he wanted to be there, but he just kept sitting there for MINUTES. Scarlet was terrified and could hardly be in the same room as the Easter Bunny.

I found a cool way to decorate easter eggs on Pinterest! Instead of cooling the eggs, after boiling them, I took them out with tongs and we melted crayons on them. It was awesome! The kids loved it! It was really great because the eggs weren't white, and the paint didn't really show up on them. 

 I also saw on pinterest that you can use a paintbrush instead of soaking the eggs- way more fun right? I went to a lot of trouble to find lighter colored eggs to decorate and they STUNK!!!! Something about the eggs, they were so tender and just cracked to pieces, even after boiling them. It was terrible. So I just threw them all away later. I would keep them as hard boiled eggs, but we put them back in the same carton, when they were dirty- so it's not super sanitary. We're pretty paranoid about food and getting accidentally sick. Been sick too many times to let anything slide!!!

The night before was so much fun. I loved hiding the eggs and preparing their baskets. Partly, it was annoying- stuffing all the eggs. But I just couldn't WAIT for them to wake up and find their presents and eggs. I just knew they would love it and it got me so excited! It was pretty cute. Scarlet looked at her basket for about 2 seconds before seeing all the eggs and she couldn't stop hunting them. She was SO EXCITED!!! It was so much fun.

 B got a sweet little hat for Easter. He loves hats and we thought this would be nice for summer. Super cute!

She was just so excited! I don't know if I've ever seen her so excited. Disneyland? It was fun. I wasn't expecting it.

I was asked to make rolls for an Easter Potluck and I doubled the batch. This is what we found the next morning in the fridge. Dough that had risen over the edge and poured everywhere. I was mostly bummed about the wasted batter because it all dried up.

The rest of the day was SO BUSY!!!! We had 2 different gatherings- one at my friend Eike's house and one at Greg's boss's. Then it was off to church. It was a busy day. Good, but full. Eike had BBQ and it was freakin' amazing. Best meat we've had since we've been here. Oh man. I wanted to stuff my face, but didn't because we had dinner less than an hour later at EJ's. But when we arrived at the next party, everyone had eaten, so no one ate my rolls! And everything was cold. I was wishing I stuffed up more on the good BBQ at Eike's. Oh well.

We had our last day of church at the Transit Center!!! Church at home from now on! I'm actually relieved. It was REALLY nice going there, being with other members- all of us supporting each other. It was really nice. But it is a long event. 40 minute drive there and back, going through security each time. They search your car, they scan your body, you wait for all this to happen. It takes awhile. Then church is an hour and we head to the cafeteria. As the transit center has been getting ready to close the food has been less and less appealing. Usually they have many options and as they're shutting it down, the options become fewer and fewer. And there's dessert everywhere and fighting the kids is just hard to do- so it's been chocolate ice cream and jello dinner for Scarlet and Brighton for the last month. It's been the worst. It's just been too hard to fight the last month. So I'm glad to say goodbye to the not ideal sunday dinners.

I hope everything goes smoothly for church at home. I guess I mean- I hope it's a smooth transition for the KIDS. We will see next week.