Easter kind of snuck up on us this year because we just celebrated St. Patrick's Day last weekend, but that did not stop us from having a jam-packed weekend of Easter activities. We started off by making lots of various crafts together: bunnies and chickies holding suckers, colored paper egg strips, and egg-shaped yarn balls filled with candy. Then we moved on to food activities by making an Easter carrot cake and decorating eggs. This year, the girls experimented with multiple colors on their eggs and even attempted to make some minion eggs from Despicable Me.
On Friday night, the girls put their eggs and baskets out for the Easter bunny and woke up on Saturday to find that both were gone and hidden somewhere in the house. (We have to celebrate Easter here on a Saturday because we have school on Sunday through Thursday in the Middle East.) The girls followed a trail of Easter hay from their bedroom to the upstairs living room where the Easter bunny left a new kids' Bible. Then they searched the room and found their own Easter baskets. They both received some books, crafts, and candy while Taelyn also got a Slinky, and Kaelia got a bathroom back scrubber (she loves those!).
Next, the girls make their way downstairs where they immediately started finding eggs scattered throughout the downstairs living room (since we don't have any outdoor grass space suitable for an egg hunt). They had a great time finding all of the eggs and agreed to share and split all of their candy at the end.
After the egg hunt, we all drove to a new park that we have recently heard about and even got to bring Meeka. Dogs are not allowed in parks here, but this park was completely empty so we gave it a try. This was the first time Meeka was able to run around in a large grass space since moving to Doha, and she had an awesome time! Kaelia also had a blast riding her scooter while Taelyn ran around and threw a ball to Meeka over and over again.
Finally, we went home, had some lunch, enjoyed our carrot cake, and the girls got to work on the crafts from their Easter baskets. To complete the weekend, we watched the Easter movie, Hop, went for swim at our pool, and had a barbecue for dinner. We all had a wonderful day and a fantastic Easter!
Happy Easter to all of our friends and family!
On Friday night, the girls put their eggs and baskets out for the Easter bunny and woke up on Saturday to find that both were gone and hidden somewhere in the house. (We have to celebrate Easter here on a Saturday because we have school on Sunday through Thursday in the Middle East.) The girls followed a trail of Easter hay from their bedroom to the upstairs living room where the Easter bunny left a new kids' Bible. Then they searched the room and found their own Easter baskets. They both received some books, crafts, and candy while Taelyn also got a Slinky, and Kaelia got a bathroom back scrubber (she loves those!).
Next, the girls make their way downstairs where they immediately started finding eggs scattered throughout the downstairs living room (since we don't have any outdoor grass space suitable for an egg hunt). They had a great time finding all of the eggs and agreed to share and split all of their candy at the end.
After the egg hunt, we all drove to a new park that we have recently heard about and even got to bring Meeka. Dogs are not allowed in parks here, but this park was completely empty so we gave it a try. This was the first time Meeka was able to run around in a large grass space since moving to Doha, and she had an awesome time! Kaelia also had a blast riding her scooter while Taelyn ran around and threw a ball to Meeka over and over again.
Finally, we went home, had some lunch, enjoyed our carrot cake, and the girls got to work on the crafts from their Easter baskets. To complete the weekend, we watched the Easter movie, Hop, went for swim at our pool, and had a barbecue for dinner. We all had a wonderful day and a fantastic Easter!
Happy Easter to all of our friends and family!
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