The Easter Trilogy...part II

Sunday morning we took off bright and early to spend the day in Worland. It was a super fast turn around since we didn't get home Saturday night until after 11 and we had to be on the road in our Easter Sunday bests by 7:45 in order to make it to church on time in Worland.
And after we drove over an hour, and sat through 3 hours of church, everyone was peeling off their clothes in the car as we drove to my mom's after church...and no one wanted to pose for an Easter Sunday pic...so, we have none :(
After church, we ate homemade chicken and noodles, had a second round of egg dyeing and another egg hunt.

Egg dyeing....
Dontcha just LOVE Emma's duds?...she wore one of her favorite skirts that she didn't want to get dirty, so she helped herself to my mom's drawer and asked if she could wear the above pictured beautiful, lavender flowered nightgown.
The egg Grace is showing off was colored with dye that had a few tablespoons of oil added to it. If you've never tried it, you should. The dye doesn't stick to the egg anywhere there is oil on it. The girls would do one color, then dry the egg off and do another color until they had achieved the result they wanted. Some of them turned out quite pretty...
Unfortunately, this is the only egg that survived the egg hunt in one piece, so it's the only one I have a picture of...

My girls giving me their "seriously mother, we don't have time for this foolishness" smiles while I give them the " I promise this is the last one" line. My dad kept Owen out of the egg dye by taking him on tractor rides. Owen was in heaven...he LOVED it!

He did laps of the back yard and then took him up and down the alley until...he was fast asleep...at least until he turned the motor off, then Owen's eyes popped right open.The Easter bunny came while we were inside watching the Velveteen Rabbit movie...
The Egg Hunt...

holding hands again

Emma striking a pose in the valuable ensemble that "could not get dirty" and thus had to be protected with the lavender nightie. Owen still wasn't sure why everyone was scrambling over finding eggs...until...he climbed up onto his beloved tractor and someone had covered it in these annoying oblong shaped balls, he quickly began clearing his tractor off by hucking the annoying oblong balls off, and then one of them hit the ground and split open, and...it was full of chocolate!...then he "got it", he understood why the little oblong balls were so valuable and he proceeded to open every one he could get his little fingers on and devour its contents.

Later, Owen convinced my brother to do laps of the backyard on the tractor.