Easter in the Mountains

For Easter weekend, we joined Jeff's aunt and uncle at their cabin in southern Colorado. It was still pretty chilly up in the mountains, but we had a great time getting out of the city and seeing their place. 

The outside of the cabin. 

They just redid the kitchen and living room area and it looks beautiful.

They just purchased a new Jeep, so we loaded up and 

went on a drive around the area.

There's a closed down ski resort in the area. There are still condos that people stay in, but the ski area isn't in operation because they never got enough snow consistently.

At the top of Cuchara Pass.

Boone was happy to cruise around in his car seat since it was forward-facing.

Boone checking out his loot on Easter morning. 

This was the first year he could actually get excited.

Reading the Easter story with Boone. What a blessing it is to be able to start to 

share the salvation story with Boone.

We planned to watch an Easter service online because there weren't any churches close by, but the internet connection was sort of spotty. Even without traditional Easter church, we had such a great time celebrating with family. We are forever thankful for Easter and the gift of salvation that God gave through sending Jesus to die on the cross for our sins! 

Boone's First Easter Egg Hunt

Boone was only 7 months last year around Easter, so he hadn't started crawling or walking and wasn't very interested in anything having to do with the holiday. This year though, we knew he would at least be excited to run around and chase after the brightly colored, chocolate-filled eggs.

The church we attend in Colorado had a hunt on the weekend before Easter. We dressed Boone up and took him to the event. They had a neat puppet show prior to the hunt that presented the Gospel in a fun, kid-friendly way. Then, they divided the kids up into age groups of birth to 3 years old and 3 years old to 5th grade. I thought that was really smart because I fully intended to see Boone get run over by the older kids, so it was nice to avoid that. We had brought in some eggs filled with candy to contribute to the hunt earlier in the spring and you could tell so many others had as well because both areas of the hunt were FULL of eggs. The younger kids probably didn't need quite as many because even after the older kids had collected every single egg in their territory, the little ones were still roaming around their area and it was still littered with untouched eggs.

Boone was sort of interested in the eggs and with a little coaxing from us, he would pick one up and begin to try to open it. After about 15 minutes though, he was mostly just interested in playing on the playground equipment in the area, which was absolutely fine with us.

Boone was oddly drawn to the Chick-Fil-A cow, but he didn't want to get close 

enough for me to get a good picture. Jeff says we are "regulars" at our local Chick-Fil-A, 

so Boone probably recognized him!

Before the puppet show started.

So interested in what was going on upfront.

The hunt begins.

Boone was watching an expert, trying to pick up some skills.

Once he realized the shiny things inside the eggs contained chocolate, 

he began to take a little more interest.

Enough of this egg stuff, let's play!

Already enjoying some candy on the way to the car.

I thought I should throw this picture in to show that he got into the Easter egg spirit 

and chowed down on some chocolate once we got home. 

More on our actual Easter weekend in another post! Thanks for reading!