Arizona Trip over Easter Weekend

We went to Arizona for Easter Weekend. Here are a few pictures from the weekend. We dyed eggs with cousins.

 We had fun spending time with our new cousin, Jesslyn. She married Nick in December and this was the first time the kids have hung out with her. I think we over whelmed her.

 We went to the Phoenix Zoo on Saturday. It is a great one. My camera battery died  after about an hour  so we only had a few pictures.

 Easter morning fun

 Grandma Hardman always does tshirts for Easter gifts. The girls got Frozen t-shirts and they were excited to wear them.

 Easter egg hunting in the back yard

 Cousin time.

 The Hardman tradition is to have an egg derby. They roll the eggs and smash them against each other. When the yolk rolls out you loose and you continue until there is one winner. I love traditions. They are what the memories are all about. You need something to bring excitement to a long Sunday.

 Thanks to Nick and Jess for teaching the littles how to roll the eggs.

Easter egg dying

 We dyed eggs at home this year. We have often traveled on this weekend so we decided to do eggs before we left. The kids were so excited. As they don't love hard boiled eggs in any form we decided to use raw eggs. The kids did really well and only cracked one. I think that is a success versus throwing out a bunch of hard boiled eggs. I loved the joy on Lydia's face as she pulled out each brightly colored egg

 Tanner turned it into a scientific process and each egg went into several colors to see the result.

 Kyle was on duty helping Ainsely. She was a quick dyer. In and out and on to the next one.

 Here are a few of our creations. Using the white crayon was too hard to resist for Kayla. She loved writing on all her eggs.

 All the eggs in their brightly colored glory. Now it is fun to cook with colored shells.

 Kayla made these little sugar cookie Easter baskets in mini muffin tins. They were adorable, the only problem was they kids would eat none of them.