Easter Weekend

We had a pretty fun and laid back Easter and Conference weekend at the Devereaux Household. We decided to do our Easter egg hunt on Saturday and save the Easter baskets for Sunday. At first we were afraid that it would be too cold and wet for the Easter bunny to hide the eggs outside. It was a cloudy day, but it didn't rain so after the first session of conference while Daddy was giving the boys their haircuts the Easter bunny made it to our house!

The boys had a great time looking for Easter eggs. Of course Jacob was really fast! He ran around gathering as many eggs as he could.

Ephraim did a pretty good job too! He found almost as many eggs as Jacob did. Mommy and Daddy may have helped him out a little bit.

They both found tons of eggs filled with all kinds of yummy surprises. Jacob did this last year, so he knew what he would find inside the eggs.

Ephraim wasn't quite sure why he was picking up all the eggs, but if Jacob is doing it... the Ephraim wants to do it too.

Apparently the Easter Bunny can even hop pretty high up to hide those eggs!

After the hunt was finished we let the boys sit down and enjoy some of their eggs.

Ephraim caught on pretty quickly once he figured out the eggs were filled with CANDY! Yum!

After the egg hunt we finished up the cute Easter cupcakes that we made for our friends. I think they turned out SO cute! The boys loved them too.

When the afternoon session of conference was over, we payed a visit to the Randalls. We wanted to give them some of our cupcakes. We also wanted to try out Melinda's new photo backdrop that she generously offered for us to use.

I think I managed to get a couple of pretty nice pictures of the boys for Easter. The most difficult thing was to get nice pictures of both of them together, but with Melinda's help I got some!

Aren't these boys just SO handsome? We sure got some cute ones.

We worked on getting a few pictures of the boys by themselves as well. Jacob was pretty easy to photograph. He will sit were you tell him to and then if you are silly enough you can get him to smile at you.

Ephraim was a bit more difficult. First of all you can't get him to hold still... and then there is the fact that he is going through the uber-CHEESE-y smile stage. You know, where you get this HUGE, goofy grin with closed eyes?

Anyway, Melinda helped me out and I got two that turned out pretty well, as well as one of both boys that I really like.

Ephraim is quite the character, but he sure is cute!

This one of Jacob and Ephraim is my favorite one. Aren't they adorable?!

Thanks Melinda! It was nice to take some pictures of the boys without having to go outside... especially because it got colder overnight and then on Easter Sunday it snowed! Yuck!

Luckily the boys had tons of fun stuff in their baskets to keep them busy!

The only bummer was the Easter Baskets contained a lot of outside toys. But since we don't usually play outside on Sundays anyway it turned out ok.

Jacob and Ephraim loved the big rake and shovel for the sandbox, as well as the little cement mixer.

They also both got pinwheels, which were tons of fun.

I laughed so hard at both of the boys trying to get their pinwheels spinning inside the house. They have the best puffed up cheeks!

They also loved the instruments that we got for them. Now when we go to Music Makers we can bring out own instruments. This will be SO nice because we won't have to worry about anyone getting upset that they didn't get the instrument they wanted!

We had a nice quiet Sunday together and enjoyed listening to conference. The boys were pretty well behaved during conference so I actually got to listen to some of the talks! It was nice!