Easter Weekend

Easter weekend was full of activities this year!  Usually we spend Easter with the Edgel's down in Vegas (we were actually just realizing that this is only the second Easter that we've not spent in Vegas since Jared and I met in 2006)!  I was excited to find so many fun activities going on in Provo.

Early Saturday morning, Gavin and I ran over to the Rec Center, to meet the Easter Bunny.  Don't tell Daddy, but we were running late so ended up getting candy from the Easter Bunny and eating it all gone before we even had breakfast that morning!

Our neighbor Lani told us about an Easter Egg Hunt later that morning at the BYU Football Stadium, so we headed over there together to check it out.  It was quite the ordeal waiting in line, then waiting in the stands, then waiting as everyone spread out around the edge of the whole field, (about an hour and a half of waiting in total) for roughly a three minute Mad Easter Egg Dash!  But it was worth it, and fun to be able to say we've ran around on the BYU Football Field!

On the edge of the field waiting for the Hunt to start - I don't know how many times they said, "there's no rush, there's no need to push, we won't start until everyone's out of the stands and around the field, we want everyone to be happy, etc, etc."  But if you want a bunch of kids to NOT be happy, making them wait for another 10 minutes, three feet away from all the eggs will certainly do it!  It was pretty funny as kids started to break down unable to stand the anticipation much longer!

Gavin with all his Easter Eggs!

Gavin & Eve

After the Easter Egg Hunt, we rushed home to finish decorating and putting out Birthday Hearts for Grandma!  Saturday was also Patti's Birthday, and they were on there way up from Vegas.  The semester at BYU was just ending and Janea is going on her mission in July, so Mark and Patti came up to help Janea pack up her stuff, and go to the temple with her.  It worked out well that it also happened to be Easter Weekend and Patti's Birthday!  We got the Birthday Hearts and Gavin's "confetti" (cut up pieces of paper) put out just as they pulled up to our place.  Tyler and Breanne also came up from Cedar City for the weekend.  Grandma opened her presents from Gavin (a pink hula-hoop and a pink bracelet and necklace that he picked out from the dollar store all on his own), then we all went out to Zupas Cafe for lunch.

Saturday evening me, Jared, and Gavin headed over to Rock Canyon Park to check out the Easter activities that were going on there.  They had pony rides, potato sack races, a giant parachute with beach balls, and a bunch of other games and activity booths.  And of course the Easter Bunny was there as well, helping give out more candy.  We ate dinner then watched the beginning of Frozen on a giant blow up screen... but ended up leaving early because I was absolutely frozen.

Sunday morning we headed off to church, and came home afterwards to discover the Easter Bunny had stopped by while we were out!  All the candy and having family around were definitely the highlights for Gavin, but we were able to talk a bit about what Easter really means, and Gavin even shared his talk that he gave in primary a few weeks ago, about how Jesus Christ is our Savior.

We had a yummy ham dinner with Schwartzies potatoes before Tyler and Breanne headed back down to Cedar City Sunday evening.  Mark and Patti (and JR and Jasmine), had brought their trailer up, and stayed at our place for another few days then left for Vegas with Janea after she finished up her last few finals.  It was great having Saturday and Sunday off, to enjoy spending time with everyone, and celebrating Easter and Patti's Birthday together!

 And Gavin got even MORE Easter goodies from Grandma!

And just to include the soon to be newest member of our family...

Here's a picture of me on Easter Sunday at 22 weeks (minus a day)