The Twins Easter.

The twins were by far the funniest to watch hunt for Easter eggs. After 2 fun failed attempts at decent photos of the twins with Josh and I. We decided to go upstairs and let the hunt begin.

Due to it being dark outside when we did the twins egg hunt and again Washington's wonderful wet weather we decided to do the Easter egg hunt inside. We choose to do it upstairs so our baby girl could nap downstairs and not be disturbed by the excited noisiness of the hunt. The twins quickly attacked the eggs that were scattered out all over the hall and our bedroom floor. They had fun trying to figure out what to do with them.

Adriel didn't really know what to do with the eggs. He would pick some up and run around with them vigrously shake them, toss them down and grab a few more. He didn't seem to notice his basket nicely sitting at the base of our bed waiting for him. We tried to spur his interest by digging in and showing him toys. But he had no interest and kept on picking up and throwing down eggs. He did have fun though and it was cute to watch.

Mathias on the other hand quickly gather a few and figured out how to open them and spent time opening each one. Thankfully he didn't realize that the items hidden in the eggs were candy and just mainly played with them. From time to time Mathias would get up and toss the eggs down the stairs, run back to his pile and throw more down the stairs. Mathias to our excitement also blurted out " egg" several times. Mathias also would shake the egg to hear it make noise and then kiss the top of the egg. Mathias much like his brother showed no interest in his basket, though when prompted stole an egg out of the basket leaving everything else in the basket just to sit and shake the one egg he snatched from the basket.

It was very cute to watch them run around excitingly gathering eggs. It was very funny and interesting to see how there interest changed from last year. I enjoyed watching them dig in and have fun and though it was a lot of work I enjoyed it. It turned out to be a wonderful Easter. We all had fun and went to bed with full happy tummies.

Elijah's Easter.

We sat Elijah's basket up in his corner. We had wanted to sit his basket and egg search up outside but unfortunately the weather wouldn't permit this. So we made due and hid eggs in the house.

Elijah thankfully loved his basket and dug in not leaving one item in the basket untouched. Then off to the egg search. We hid eggs in his corner and in the dinning room.

He looked for them high and low and proudly as shown in the above photo found everyone of them. He was really excited to open each one and see what was inside. It took Elijah a whole 10 minutes to find everything and be done searching. He had fun though..

Ellie's First Easter.

Ellie of course couldn't really do much for Easter. But we still made her up a basket and dressed her up like we did the boys. She looked beautiful in her dress. Daddy got it for her, her basket was filled with a new outfit for this winter, her first dress shoes, her first bunny and very first book. She looked like a precious little doll.

She of course wouldn't keep her shoes on, but for what time they were on they looked beautiful on her. Not a very exciting Easter for her. She spent most of it sleeping =-) .

Our Hodges Family Easter.

Elijah's Basket

Adriel's Basket

Mathias's Basket

Ellie's Basket

This Easter is the Josh and I's 6th family Easter. Yes even our 1st in "2005" was a family Easter. I was pregnant with Elijah. Anyways this Easter went like many before it. Josh and I spent the weekend preparing everything for Easter. Josh prepared the meal and I prepared the Easter baskets for the kids. I made up 4 baskets, one for each kid and Josh prepared Ham, deviled eggs, stuffing, green beans and much more. Our fridge is packed full of leftovers and the meal was wonderful. The baskets were gorgeous.