Easter

What a fun Easter weekend we had! We had our traditional McFarlane family Easter egg get together complete with lunch, egg hunt and our first annual egg bash. Cindy was wonderful to host this year. I think our new favorite tradition is the egg bash. Everyone had so much fun with it. We each brought a dozen eggs per family, then we each took turns rolling them at each other and whichever one didn't crack, won. Then the winners would go against each other, etc, etc, til there was only one. It was a blast and we are looking forward to doing it again next year.
The kids had a great time hunting eggs. There were so many places to hide them in Cindy's yard. What fun it was. We missed having Pam and her family there, but they'll be there next time, I'm sure.Sunday was a fun egg hunt too. Then of course we had to have pictures in our new Easter outfits, well the kids new outfits anyway.
Karen is a natural model, she posed for this without any help or direction from me.We hope you all had a wonderful Easter and celebrated the resurrection of Jesus Christ too.

Easter Morning

During the night it snowed and a special visitor came and left gifts, but it wasn't Santa. It was the Easter bunny, though with the snow and the excitement of the kids it could have been Christmas. They were so excited to see their gifts from the Easter bunny and the clothes from Grandma and Grandpa.
They had a lot of fun searching for the eggs and they got so excited to see them hidden in so many places. In fact, Karen just found the last one just now and was just as excited now as she was this morning. They went so fast that I could only get a few taken before they were all found.

Here they are after we got them all dressed in their Easter Sunday best. Thanks Grandma & Grandpa.

Easter

We were lucky to have our Easter party yesterday with my family at our house. Since it had snowed (so upset!) we did everything inside and had a lot of fun with lunch and the Easter egg hunt for the kids. I didn't get a whole lot of pictures til near the end, but I got a couple fun ones. I got 3 of my sister's families, though I wasn't able to get one sister's family before they left and forgot my own. Here's Kathleen and her kids. It was Melissa's birthday which we celebrated too.

This is what Anthony was doing at that time.

Here's Rose's family. Aren't they cute and happy? The kid's sure are growing fast!

And here's Cindy's family. Jeff really wasn't mad, he just doesn't like pictures. Aren't her boys handsome?!
And this is what Neils did for quite a bit of the party.The kids also had a lot of fun. Here's a picture of each of my own kids with some of their toys.

Who knew that these would be such a hit with the older boys. They had more fun with them than the younger kids.