Kelly's First Easter

I am going out of order on my posts here... I still want to share some great Colorado pictures too, but I'm trying to figure out how to do a collage with those, so it might take a little longer before I get them up here.
This Easter was a little crazy with us getting home from Colorado at 10PM the night before, so I must admit, we did not dye any Easter eggs this year. I felt terrible about it, but decided to let myself off the hook since Kelly's so young, I figured she probably wouldn't remember anyway. The big kids are kind of past it... =(

We were lucky to make it to church on Easter morning, as draggy as we all felt from our full day of travel the day before. I was so glad we did because it was a very powerful service that helped me to get my focus off all the suitcases I still needed to unpack and onto what was really important- praising God for the amazing gift of Jesus and the hope we have because of His resurrection.

We got home from church, had lunch, and then the big kids and I filled plastic Easter eggs with candy and hid them in the backyard for Kelly to hunt. I wondered how she would do, never having hunted Easter eggs before, nor seeing anyone else do it either, but she caught right on and seemed to really enjoy herself.

Here she is - Camryn is giving her

her Easter basket so she can start hunting!

"Oh Boy!"

"This is going to be fun!"

Finding her first egg...

She wanted to open each egg as she found them... so cute!

See that blue one in the background?

Let's see if she finds it...
Yep- she found it!

She had to open it and see what was inside.
"Mmmm, this jelly bean is yummy..."
"Uh-oh, it's stuck to my tooth!"


She just couldn't get enough of those jelly beans!

Camryn comes to see if she can help...

Caleb comes to help too...

We purposely waited to mow until after the Easter egg hunt.

Those eggs really hid well in the tall grass!

Sharing some jelly beans with daddy...

It turned out to be a very simple but especially blessed day with Kelly home for her first Easter. Hope you all had a wonderful Easter as well!

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Cheyenne Mountain Zoo pictures to come next!