Dying Easter Eggs...

Although Easter weekend was also moving weekend, we couldn't break tradition of dying Easter eggs with the Cunninghams! 

Lucky the weather was nice and everything disposable works for dying Easter eggs!!

Boiled eggs, a blanket, dying kits, water, and some excited kids was all we needed!  

Owen and Ansley playing a little chase while the eggs where sitting….

We spent the whole morning dying eggs, hunting eggs, and just playing outside while the guys were busy moving us in!

dying eggs is serious business….

After all the eggs were died, it was time to hunt…the plastic eggs!!

Owen definitely had the advantage, but we hid some in plane sight for the girls and some in more conspicuous spots for him!! 

Ansley on the hunt….

The girls had fun hunting the eggs, but they were more interested in their accessories….aka Easter baskets = purses!!

finally getting the hang of Easter egg hunting…

so sweet….share their Easter eggs!

Happy Easter..

We had so much fun celebrating Easter with family and friends!

Owen's Birthday party and Easter fell on the same weekend, which was great for my family traveling but also made for a very busy weekend.  After Owen's party, a short nap, then Emmie's birthday party... we had an Easter egg dying party with family and friends. 

a little artwork with Aunt Anna...

Getting everything ready with daddy...

Let the fun begin....

Ava Kate and Ansley weren't too sure about the eggs but really enjoyed the stickers!  Ava Kate also liked holding the eggs "herself" so we ended up with quite a few cracked eggs! Ha!  

Owen was all about dying Easter eggs and loved the new egg holder that Danielle found!! He was able to do almost everything himself!

Really concentrating...dying Easter eggs is hard work!!

the finished products...

The Easter Bunny surprised the kids with a few goodies!

A little fun with the Easter baskets before breakfast and Church...

A family pic before Church!  

Sweet snuggles with Papa Bart at church...

After church we headed home for lunch and Easter egg hunts!

We had so many eggs to hide that it took 2 Easter Bunnies to get the job done...

Someone was peeking while the Easter Bunnies were hiding the eggs...

We had some serious little Easter egg hunters...

I think that egg must have been hidden just for Owen....our little monkey!

a basket full and still hunting for more...

checking out more of her Easter goodies...

sometime between lunch and Easter egg hunts....a silly string war broke out in the house!!

A little snack break while the Easter eggs get hid AGAIN....

All the grandparents involved in the hiding of Easter eggs!  I think these kiddo's may have a few grandparents wrapped around their fingers!! Ha!

ready set go....

watching all the action from the sidelines...

Love, love, love this pic of Little Miss....so sweet!

Easter Weekend

So, I'm way behind on posting AGAIN.  We've been really busy and I have a ton of things to post, but I feel like I have to pick up from where I left off.... so here goes!

Easter weekend was packed full of fun with family and friends

We grilled out on Saturday night with Gigi, Papa Joe, Beema, Danielle and Travis.  And of course we ended the night with dying Easter eggs.  Owen was really in to it this year and was all about doing it himself!

putting his signature on his artwork....

 The Easter Bunny left a lot of fun goodies for both of the kids...

 Owen didn't really understand why he woke up to baskets from the Easter Bunny, but he was really excited about the Easter eggs that looked like baseballs, footballs, and soccer balls....especially because they were filled with candy!

Showing Ava Kate her toys that the Easter Bunny left....so sweet!

 Ava Kate's favorite thing from her Easter basket...Lightning McQueen!

 She also LOVED the ribbon and cellophane....she would have played with it all morning if we didn't have to leave for church!  Ha!

 Ava Kate stylin' in her new sun hat...

 A few attempts at a family picture after church....getting all four of us to look and smile at the camera at the same time is quiet the chore!

Sweet baby girl...

We had a fun filled Easter celebration with Josh's work family on Sunday after noon.  It was a great time with good food and a ton of fun games for the kids....bounce houses, Easter egg hunts, pinatas, and much more!

Owen was a little shy at first but it didn't take long for him to warn up and join in all the fun....

 This was Owen's first experience with a pinata.  He got a few good hits before passing the bat on to the next kiddo....

getting a little help from daddy...

The Easter Egg Hunt!  They had a separate hunt for the big kids and little kids, and all the eggs were just laying out in the open for all the little kids.  Owen was super excited about running and finding the eggs!  

When they said "go" Owen took off and ran past half of the eggs because they didn't look like "eggs"! Ha!  Some were small robots and other characters filled with candy, but he was only going after the "real" plastic Easter eggs.  He had so much fun and ended up with a bucket full of eggs and candy!

There was also a coin hunt, where they tossed a bunch of coins (pennies, quarters, nickels, dimes, and half dollars) in a pile of wood chips and then set the kids free!  I think this was the funniest game to sit back and watch....

Josh and Owen also did a sack race, but my camera battery went dead so I didn't get any pictures.  It was quiet the sight!  Josh ended up cheating in the end and picked Owen up and just ran....Owen thought it was hilarious!!