Happy Easter

I know I am a little late posting Easter, but better late than never I suppose. We had a great Easter weekend together for the most part.  The Easter Bunny comes to our house on Saturday so that we can spend Easter Sunday remembering the real reason for the Holiday and can focus on Christ and the life changing events that happened on Easter Sunday.

Friday after school the boys helped boil the eggs for decorating.  Nathan put them all back into their cartons. 

There were only a few casualties, so we made the best of them.

The kids got a kick out of it, so they decided that's what they wanted to do from now on.  Easter will never be the same at the Sill house again.....

Here is what Saturday morning at our house looked like.

 The Easter egg Hunt is on......  Greg and I hide the eggs and put one out in front of their doors so they know what color they are looking for.....

 They got a little side tracked looking into Greg's basket.

 Greg put them EVERYWHERE..... yes, that would be in the window above the front door. (Nathan's egg)

 Still haven't found them all.... (we had to hide them all inside since the weather was NOT cooperating)

 Since when did the Easter Bunny start bringing presents??? Oh yeah, when he decided it was better than more sugar... (sigh)

 Let's dig in!!  Sugar for breakfast!

 No "business" going on here.  Everyone hordes their stash - for about 5 minutes....

 My absolute favorite thing the Easter Bunny brings is eggs filled with confetti that I can (and do) break over their heads.... every year!!!  And yet they are STILL surprised when I do it.....good times, good times...

This year the Easter Bunny even left some in their baskets... unfortunately I didn't get a good picture of the "aftermath".  But it was good!

After the major clean up, we "decorated" the eggs.  And here you go....

 This really is less messy, if not more disturbing than regular egg decorating..

Noah's sad little eggs, no really.... they were sad and crying because they didn't want to get eaten..

 Nicholas's public service announcement -"Always wear your helmet kids.."

 Nathan's crime scene..... His idea of egg 'dying"

 Noah's final "scene"...

Nicholas's collection of "eggstra" exciting eggs....

Kaylee and John were in town for Ashley and Cameron's BYU graduation and stopped by for a visit. They were very entertained by the "Sill style" Easter festivities....
Here is our Jelly Bean inspired Easter Cake...

Thankfully it tasted better than it looked.


Sunday came with a raging migraine that made me sick to my stomach, or I was sick to my stomach and got no sleep and ended up with a migraine.... either way, it was nasty.
I teach Relief Society one Sunday a month for 40 minutes.  That's it, that's all I have to do.  So I felt horrible calling before church to tell them I wasn't going to be there.  One of my huge pet peeves is people who agree to a calling and then don't do it.  I realize I have never done this before and I at least called and told them wasn't going to make it instead of just not showing up.  But still.... REALLY???  40 minutes a month??  So I spent the day feeling horrible - literally from my headache and from not being able to teach.  I took my medicine and was out to the world for most of the day.  Greg was awesome as usual and got the kids ready for church and took them all to church.
After church, he came home and fixed our Easter dinner - ham and all the fixins.  The boys helped him cut and mash and get everything ready.
Then as we were at the dinner table, he gave a great lesson on Jesus and the choice he made to become our Savior because he loved us so much.  And the significance and importance of the Atonement.  And of course it made me cry when he specifically pointed out that the last thing Jesus did before he died was make sure his mother was taken care of.  He always does such a great job teaching the boys.

After about 30 minutes at dinner, I was back in bed for the rest of the day.  The boys and Greg had a fun evening together.
My migraine lasted till Monday afternoon.  Then I was lucky enough to have the "day after" hangover.  It was lovely, but thankfully the boys had a great weekend and we were able to celebrate Easter together as a family.