Easter Weekend Extravaganza!

The week before Easter Garrett and I officially lost our minds and decided to take on a 14+ hour drive to St. George!  We weren't going to go anywhere for Easter, but it turned out that Easter weekend was going to include my Mom's birthday and my neice's birthday and general conference.  Not to mention that my brother and his family were going to be there as well as my little sister from BYU, both of which had not seen Beckett since he was 2 weeks old.  So we did it!  The kids were honestly amazing!!

Carter was so happy that he got to get a happy meal along the way and score this awesome two-headed dragon!  The kids didn't really complain at all, they were just so excited to see their cousins and swim in Nana and Papa's pool!

I was so happy we went when we did because I was able to attend my Mom's birthday luncheon that was put on by my Grandma Allred.  My mom had some dear freinds come and we got to enjoy yummy food and great stories about my favorite lady in the whole world.  I love hanging out with my Mom's friends!  I know it's weird but I always have.  She has some awesome friends.

Beckett was loving the 88 degree water in Nana and Papa's pool!

My little sister Abby brought some of her roomates down for the Easter festivities.  They were so cool and great with our kids.  Look at Garrett's wicked spike!

Rylynn was so brave and swam the majority of the time without her swimming vest.  Occasionally when she got a little tired, she would grab onto whatever floating device she could get her hands on.  In this case she decided to float in the basketball hoop!

It was okay though cause Carter was playing on the serious hoop.

The kids were soooo excited when Thais and Skyler finally arrived!  They adore their cousins.

I can't believe how big these babies are all getting.  Sweet Thaisy turned 4 on this trip!  We had a little cake and presents party for her after Easter dinner. The kids loved snuggling up in the giant towels on the porch swing in the backyard.

After plenty of swimming it was time for Easter festivites.  This is the massive Easter egg dying effort.  Everyone got to do a couple.  It was lots of fun.

Rylynn and Carter woke up on Easter morning and found their easter baskets!

The Easter bunny at Nana's was awesome!  She brought a Cars easter basket for Carter and a Tinkerbell basket for Rylynn.  They both got cute little bunnies and socks and lots of candy.  

After they found their baskets, the hunt began!

The eggs were in some tricky places around Nana and Papa's yard.

Papa was helping the kiddies find the eggs.

The whole gang trying to find the last couple eggs.  Skyler did the hunt pantless:)

The loot!  The kids were dying in this picture cause the sun was in their eyes, but they really were happy:)

I don't have any pictures of the adult easter egg hunt cause it was too intense to stop for picture taking!  It is the coolest easter egg hunt where you have to find nests of eggs and you are assigned one color of egg and you have to find all your color eggs in numbered order.  It is crazy.  The first prize was 30 bucks too!!  Garrett and I took second place and scored 10 bucks.  We also did our annual egg rolling contest and Garrett represented for the Halls and won first place and 5 bucks!  Of course we also had an amazing Easter dinner with family and friends.  Both of my Grandmas got to be there and also my cousin Sarah and her family.  It was so worth the drive and so much fun! 

We loved watching General Conference together too and feeling uplifted and inspired by the Lord's Prophet and apostles.  It was such a great weekend that we just had to extend our trip one extra day.

Thanks Nana and Papa for an awesome Easter weekend!  We are so thankful that this wonderful Nana was born into the world a few years ago:)