The Perry's: Easter

Thursday, April 18, 2013

Easter

We started our Easter Celebrations this year with a compound wide Easter Egg-travaganza!! Several ladies got together and created the whole event. There was Easter Egg Hunts for all the kids, based on age groups, a cook out, and scavenger hunt!

**I realized that our kids have never had Easter Baskets so I went out and found some at a local shop and when I got home, decided they looked ugly. Since I started learning to sew, I figured I'd make liners for the baskets! It was a definite learning experience, but lots of fun and I was pretty happy with the end results!

Our kids loved hunting for eggs! Thankfully, Miles and Brooklyn's age group was very few kids and the eggs were out in the open of the backyard making it extremely easy for our kids to get and find eggs! At some point, pretty quickly, too. Miles and Brooklyn realized there was candy inside the eggs. Game over. That was all they were interested in. We did convince Miles to keep hunting for eggs and he was eager to fill up his basket! Gavin was all into his age groups hunt and seemed a little competitive but just against himself not others! He really, really wanted to get all the eggs he could find!!

I took an applique sewing class with my friend Laura and we decided to make the girls Easter shirts. We used our Silhouettes and cut out the images with fabric and then appliqued the designs on! So cute and something I plan to do again. MAYBE... I won't have to spend $30 on holiday applique shirts off Etsy anymore.. just maybe!

Of course we spent the evening with our friends and the kids played their hearts out together! We tried getting a few group shots together. They were all more interested in what the other one had in their baskets!

Gavin got to dye Easter Eggs and was amazed his turned blue! He loved it!

I made an Easter Bunny cake for the BBQ.

Easter morning was lots of fun this year! The kids were excited to see their baskets and had a ball playing throughout the morning with all their new toys. They got bubbles, and balls, and music instruments, toy planes, and bumper cars! It was precious watching their faces with all the fun stuff they got!

After our morning group get together we invited all of our friends over for lunch and I cooked a Mexican meal. What are you suppose to eat on Easter Sunday by the way?!? Our friends pitched in with the side dishes and desserts. I wanted for all of us to have a fun and memorable day so Brooks and I came up with Easter themed games for everyone to play! We had a blast, laughed a lot, and made some fun memories!! The guys played chubby bunny (with marshmallows in the mouth)- i think the highest number was 8 or 9! We played egg on a spoon where each couple raced against the other to see who could make it walking/running without dropping their egg. We did this twice! Another game was Pass the Egg. Each couple had to hand off an Easter Egg to the other one without using their hands and then drop it into an Easter Basket! This game might have been everyone's favorite to watch and got the most laughs!! We played Egg Toss. Guys together. Girls together! The guys got real competitive and were pretty serious about wanting to win. They were really good at it too and had to move outside our yard to keep throwing. They even did a few dives to catch their eggs! Fun stuff! When it was us girls turn, we had our own surprise! We used hard boiled eggs so that it would be more difficult to crack our eggs and when they did crack, it wasn't going to be messy! The other girls appreciated my gesture and went along with it! We set up the jump house for all the kids and they were busy jumping, playing in the playhouse, jumping on trampoline, and riding around in the back yard! I was a really, really fun day with all our friends!