"Green" Day and "Hippity Hoppity" Day

"Green" Day, as we said to Tan, was celebrated by eating green egg omelets and green jello. Not much but still fun! Eli's dad, Lennox, joined in the festivities and even wore a little green!

For Easter, we played with bunnies and sang "Here Comes Peter Cottontail" all week. Eli, Aly, and I decorated eggs. We had a playground Easter Egg hunt and Tan totally didn't get it. Here's what happened:

Me: "Look Tan! There's an egg by that bush! Go get it!"
Tan: "No." Then he picks up a stick or a rock.
So I go pick up the egg.
Me: "Tan, put the egg in the basket."
Tan: "No." He grabs the egg. "Ball!!!" Then he throws the egg and all the candy spills out onto the sidewalk.

Even after that experience, I still hid plastic eggs for him around the house and hard-boiled colored eggs for Eli and Aly in high places. Surprisingly, he actually hunted for and gathered eggs in his basket!






He did well hunting until an egg broke open and he discovered that candy was inside. The hunt stopped dead in its tracks! So mommy finished the hunt while Tanner ate lots and lots of sugar. I just realized that we don't have pictures with him and his basket. Oops!

You know you're a mom when you have goldfish crackers stuck to your clothing. (Thanks Eli for never telling me it was there and taking pictures of it instead!)

After watching 3 sessions of AMAZING General Conference and hearing from "Mons" or "Mon Mon" (President Monson) as Tan calls him, Eli and I met up with Lennox and actually went to the last session in the Conference Center. We only got the tickets the week before: the Executive Secretary in our bishopric literally just handed them to me out of the blue! Apparently Lennox wanted one (he's in our ward) so the bishopric decided to let Eli and I go as well. How nice of them! And Aly was so nice to watch Tan and drop us off. I'm especially glad we got to go since we'll be all the way across the country for the next 8 General Conferences. I always love being in the conference center because I feel unified with the rest of the Church and feel the spirit so strongly when the Prophet enters the room. It's something everybody should experience once!

After that, headed to the Gehrke's for some annual Easter egg rolling and an incredibly delicious turkey dinner with amazing rolls (my mouth is watering just thinking about them!). Good food, fun times, and good company!
Aly spent the whole weekend with us which we all love! Tanner has the funniest name for Aly - he says the "A" without the "ly" and adds "ss" at the end. You put it together and imagine how we react when he says her name! It's pretty hilarious! Especially when he yells it really loud when the windows are open so that the rest of our apartment complex can hear. Ha ha ha!

Happy Easter from the Morey's! Hopefully our bright colors will encourage spring to stay and get rid of all the random snow storms we've been having!