Picking out Pumpkins, 2013 edition

Egg Hunts

We always do Easter Baskets and egg hunts on the Saturday before Easter, but this was the first year that we failed to hide the eggs before Sydney woke up.  Thankfully, she was willing to snuggle with me while Charles rushed and hid the eggs and she was none the wiser.

Checking out her basket

Finding eggs

Later that morning, we went to a neighborhood egg hunt. Sydney had fun and found a few eggs.  She was most excited to see her friends and meet the Easter Bunny.

Easter Egg Dying

Jerusalem Dinner

For Easter this year, Charles and I wanted to focus a lot more on the life of Christ and what we thinks is the most important part of Easter. So, we took some time to talk about the things that happened in the last week of Christ's life leading up to his Crucifixion and Resurrection.  One of the things we did was have a Jerusalem dinner.  It's not completely authentic (some of us were having a hard time eating much of anything normal) and we didn't focus much on the passover this time, but it was fun to eat on the floor and talk about what Christ might have eaten and discuss the Last Supper and introduce Sydney to some new foods.

Pumpkin Picking

Our annual outing to pick out pumpkins.

Arrows to Aerospace Parade.

Bellevue has a yearly parade called Arrows to Aerospace.  It celebrates the history and future of Bellevue and it is a big to-do out here.  For the last twelve years, at least one Duran kid has marched in the parade, with the exception of the last two when there was none of us in the marching band.  We went out to watch Talia march in her first parade.  It was so much fun and Sydney came home with her body weight in candy...mostly tootsie rolls...mmm..

 Waiting for the parade to begin.




Warming up.






Talia



They bought this banner when I was in high school...

Fishing at Holmes Lake.

We went out to Holmes Lake for a picnic and for Charles and Sydney to go fishing.



Fastest picnic I have ever packed.



It is a Chamberlin Family Secret that the best fish are caught with the pink princess fishing pole.  Every Chamberlin family has one and they all swear by it.  ;)



Reeling the fish in.



They caught several blue gill.



My fishers.

A Duran Family Fourth of July in Pictures.