...a boise easter...

okay, before i say anything else about going to boise for easter, i have to say this. i never take enough pictures when we go there! and i know it's because grandpa field always has his camera out and is snapping away. so i feel bad that my pictures are lacking when it comes to our time spent with grandma & grandpa field. the kids LOVE going to boise...and it's not hard to figure out why. they are spoiled with love and attention from the moment we get there until the moment we leave. i feel very lucky to have such great grandparents for my kids... :)

saturday there was a neighborhood easter egg hunt...but i don't think i'd really call it a hunt because it was more of an easter egg pick up! i think every egg that emerson found was filled with some sort of peanut-containing candy...bummer! but thank goodness grandma's house was full of other yummy treats, or we would have been in trouble...

zac wasn't buying the idea of the easter bunny being so big, so here's the "someone dressed up as the easter bunny"...

emmy loves her "papa"...

it's always fun to see the smart family when come into town....here's sweet eden...

and little nora kate...they're such cute girls! and such great buddies for my kids...

i didn't get many pictures on easter...but here's one of emerson scoping out the easter baskets easter morning. it was a great little get away! thanks again grandma & grandpa field for taking such good care of us...like always! :)

...grandma's easter party...

my mom had a little easter party for the kids a few days before easter. it was so nice of her to put it together...the kids loved it & i'm thinking that it may be the start of a fun little tradition...no pressure mom...but i don't think anyone would be opposed!

she came up with such a cute idea for serving lunch to the kids. first of all, she bought them all some cheap little shirts to wear to cover their clothes...which i thought was brilliant since my kids have ruined so many clothes because they wouldn't wear bibs. so they had no problem wearing a t-shirt & it saved all their nice clothes. i was very happy about that!

anyway, back to the food, she put all sorts of different food inside of plastic eggs and then put the eggs inside a carton and then put the cartons on the kids' plates. it was very cute & the kids loved finding all the food inside...

as you can see by emerson's face...she thought it was pretty cool herself. her facial expressions make me laugh...

and here's miss kalle putting on all her fun jewelry from grandma...so cute.

here's not-so-little-anymore grady. isn't he cute?! brynn's been so good to keep him inside during the cold & flu season...so we haven't seen him much until now. zac loves having a baby cousin around...and you really can't blame him!

then we had an easter egg hunt...

followed by decorating easter shaped rice krispies with white chocolate. these are so yummy & it's a fun little spin on the usual cookie decorating. zac loves things like this...he's always so focused & he's always been that way...it's funny to see how kids just come with certain personality traits, because....

emerson on the other hand is much more carefree when doing these sorts of activities...she loves it, but she doesn't have near as much perfectionism in her as zac does.

we dyed easter eggs & fingers...and had so much fun the entire time! thanks grandma syd! :)

...some easter magic...

at christmastime, we started this tradition. zac & emerson loved it so much that we've now adapted the same idea to work for easter. we were at tai pan about a month ago and zac found this little bunny somewhere & insisted that i ask the workers if it was a magic bunny. i had to give the worker a little wink of the eye so she wouldn't think i was some crazy woman who was out of my mind, but she must have been a grandma because she quickly caught on and let zac know that yes, this was one of the easter bunny's magic little helpers. sooo, for $7 we got ourselves some easter magic!!

meet jumpers. starting april 1st, each morning he starts bringing the kids a little surprise and is hiding in a different spot around the house. the kids love this! and i love it, because it's something that even emerson gets excited about. and, another perk about these magic little helpers is that they're always watching to make sure the kids behave...funny how that always seems to help!