Easter

Easter was fun this year. We colored our eggs quickly this year since we were in Vegas most of the weekend. I did dig the red roots for everyone this year and even mailed a few to Jan'l in Colorado. I gained a new appreciation for the "red root digger." It was more work than I thought! 

The egg bust got rained out before Church this year. (It seems to be raining A LOT lately!) So we did it after. It is always fun. Addie ate most of her eggs before we even made it home. I found out she loves boiled eggs! :)

Katie had an Easter party later at Bob and Bradi's. A treasure hunt, relay, water fight, pinata and treats finished off our Easter. It was a great day.

Easter

Easter this year crept up on me. Before I could even think about it we were almost out of days to color eggs. Luckily we found a day to get together and make really pretty eggs. Dennis (Gavin's dad) always does all the work by digging the red roots and getting the onion shells. I am thankful we still keeps this Swiss tradition alive. 

Easter Morning was fun. Landon woke us up at 8:28 am and reminded us we were almost late for the Annual Egg Bust, then he informed me that the Easter bunny forgot to come to our house!! I about panicked! I told him that there was no way he forgot us.  I bet he just hid the baskets. Then I pushed he and Preston out the door with their dad and said we would have to find them when they got back. Auugh! Luckily the Easter Bunny did hide those darn baskets in the front room and they found them when they got home. (Just a note, for all who are judging that crazy rabbit right now, we were in Las Vegas all weekend (those pics are coming next) and didn't get home until Saturday evening, I am sure that really confused the funny bunny. Lets cut him or her ;o) a little slack! :))

Having General Conference on Easter was really great. We were able to have a yummy breakfast of Strawberries and Waffles, watch Conference in our PJ's and just enjoy each other. I did end up get really sick that afternoon, and threw up on the way to Ken and Katie's house for their Easter Dinner Party. After I did that, I felt much better. Oh, the joys of being Pregnant! ;o) Can you believe it #4 is on the way! I can't.  Well that about wraps up Easter. Sometime soon I will have this darn blog caught up. It just seem like I like sleeping a lot more lately than updating this blog, go figure.

Happy Easter 2010!

I am only a month late. :)

Egg Bust!

Here is another one of those weird Santa Clara traditions... the Egg Bust! On Easter morning (Sunday) at about 8:00ish friends and neighbors meet on the corner of Victor Street and Santa Clara Drive to have the traditional Egg Bust.

As you can see from the pictures, each person has their boiled egg. They first hit either the big end or the "pointy" end of the egg, then turn the egg over and hit again. Which ever egg doesn't crack is the winner! The losing egg must be given to the winner. We came home with about the same amount of eggs as we started with, so we did pretty good! I remember one year Landon had a really stout egg and ended up with a extra two dozen eggs, you would have thought he won the lottery! Who needs easter presents when you can go to the corner and win boiled eggs?! 

Speaking of Easter presents, all the kids received Sunday clothes from the Easter bunny. We were in a hurry to get to the Egg Bust so I forgot to take a picture and then we were in a hurry for church (typical) and I didn't take a picture then either. So, you'll just have to trust me, they all looked very cute! 

Jake received the priesthood on Sunday too. I can't believe he will be passing the Sacrament next week. He is really growing up and turning into a great young man. A real role model for my boys. We had dinner at Grandpa Dennis' after church. His new house and BIG table held all the troops great. After dinner we had a Dance contest with the kids, it was funny! Brooklyn won, go figure! 

All in all Easter was a great day! I am so thankful that we have a chance to celebrate Christ's atonement and resurrection. Repentance and the opportunity to live again with family and him someday is such an incredible gift. I hope you all had a happy Easter!

Easter Fun!

Saturday was a fun busy day. We went to the Santa Clara Easter Egg Hunt at 9:00 am and got a little rained on, but still had fun. Then Gavin and I went were lucky enough to be invited to Jake and Stephanie's temple sealing. What an incredible experience, to see their family in the sealing room all in white really was like heaven on earth. I am so thankful for the sealing ordinance and that my family can be together forever. 

Landon and Preston stayed with all the cousin's at the Lasswell's! Preston really had a great weekend with Callum, he informed me that Callum was his BEST friend! I am so glad he had a friend to play with for a few days, there really isn't any boys his age around our neighborhood. So he either has to hang with his mom... or play with Landon and his friends, that is if Landon lets him! Anyway, Callum and Preston played great together and had a lot of fun! 

We had an Easter Egg Hunt out in front of Uncle and Aunties. It was later in the afternoon, the weather turned out great, and the boys were all thrilled to find treasure's beyond measure!!

Coloring Eggs

There are a few traditions that Gavin and I have in common one of them is coloring Easter eggs the Swiss way.  It is not your typical method... it takes a little more work, but the result is always beautiful! 

Start with raw eggs (farm eggs take on the colors a lot better than store bought) and wrap them with flowers, weeds, leaves etc... 

Boil in Red Root (root of a weed) or onion skins for 20 minutes. 

Unwrap.... 

and ta da!! Swiss Easter Eggs! 

This year after we had finished cooking the eggs, Garrett decided we needed to start our own family egg busting tradition. I will be happy to announce that my egg was the stoutest!