Easter Fun

Lydia, our own Easter bunny. Doesn't she look cute?

One of my fond Easter memories growing up was making Easter candy! We had some little chocolate molds- bunnies, chicks, baskets, eggs, etc, which we used every year. I remember sitting down with my mom and sisters to make our chocolates pretty and "paint" them pastel colors (we melted small amounts of white chocolate, added a little coloring to them, and 'viola,' colorful, fun, and tasty chocolate). I can't imagine why I enjoyed this as a child because I never like to sit still for long and these can be quite time consuming. I really did love it though and have kept up the tradition. It is definitely not as fun without my family to be with, but it brings back lots of good memories! Another Easter candy I grew up making are marshmallow eggs. We'd make a batch of marshmallows, shape them into eggs, and dip them in chocolate. They are quite simple to make and are super yummy! After everything was made and set up, I dressed Lydia up as a bunny (in her white snowsuit and a bunny ears headband) and we took the treats to  a few good friends and neighbors. 

Saturday afternoon we had an Easter egg hunt at Neal's parents home. Since it had snowed the day before, we had the hunt downstairs. We discovered that Lydia LOVES plastic eggs- she will hold and play with them forever! Lydia was content with her couple eggs and played happily on the floor while the rest of us went hunting. 

Look Mom, I found some eggs!

Neal's mom had way too much fun finding crazy and difficult places to hide the eggs and it took us all quite a while and some hints to find everything. There were eggs in pockets, in laundry baskets, underneath the liners in garbage cans, hidden in boxes, in the filing cabinet, in the laundry soap, in the light cover (so you had to unscrew the light and take it out to get to the egg), and many more places. We all had fun and enjoyed being together. After all the eggs were found we wandered upstairs  to the prize table.

Some of the eggs had numbers on them, and for each eggs we had with a number- we got to choose a prize! We all got spoiled, especially because Brent and Bradley were gone, so there were less people for the prizes to go around to. Thanks Mom and Dad!

Lydia loving being with  Grandpa Johnson