My "Colorful" Easter Weekend!

So this Easter weekend also happened to be the Spanish Fork Color Festival weekend. My sisters and I had been planning to go this year, so after stopping by my cousin Britney's baby shower to congratulate her and roping my cousin Tiffany into joining us, we began our little day trip. We knew it wouldn't be a long trip since Tiffany had to be home by 5, but it was only an hour drive each way so we figured we would have a little over 2 hours to enjoy ourselves which is generally plenty of time. Getting off the freeway in Spanish Fork was a nightmare! There were so many cars trying to go to the color festival, we were literally inching along, and around an hour later we were parking our car. However we had to park nearly 2 miles away so we still had a bit of a hike to the Hindu temple where the color festival takes place. We finally made it there around 2PM. We knew we would have to make the hike back to the car and fight traffic back to the freeway, and wanting to give ourselves plenty of time to get Tiffany home before 5 so she could shower, we resolved to leave by 2:45. We quickly got our chalk and entered the crowd. Everyone had fun throwing their different chalk powders at perfect strangers, while getting pelted with all the colors from other people at the same time. It was a new experience for Tiffany, Rachel and Savannah so I don't know if they knew what to expect going in, but they all seemed pretty happy with our short amount of time there. After a quick photo shoot of our final colors, we made the hike back to our car. As expected, traffic back to the freeway was a nightmare again, and took us nearly an hour, however there was still time to get Tiffany back on time so we didn't worry. Unfortunately we hit another traffic jam on the freeway, and after about 20 minutes of hardly moving, we knew we were cutting it way too close. Tiffany made a call to her sister Jamie to let her know that she might be late, and Rachel roped my mom into going over to watch the baby until Tiffany could get there. We then decided to take the Bangerter exit to get Tiffany home since it would likely be the fastest route. Unfortunately there was an accident and we were once again trapped in hardly moving traffic for just over 20 minutes. Needless to say, Tiffany didn't make it on time, and we all felt so bad since we didn't anticipate hitting every traffic jam in the state on our drive home that day! Sorry again Tiff! Hope Jamie wasn't too mad at you!


Rachel's before picture

Tiffany's before picture



Rachel and I in our colorfest masks and protective eye gear

Savannah's before picture

Savannah and I in all our gear



Tiff and I in all our gear



Rachel's colorful pony tail

Rachel's colorful hair, she did say she wanted
purple hair....

Tiffany in all her colorful glory

Rachel attempting to take pictures of
her colorful hair



Savannah mid-colorfest











Me mid-colorfest

Savannah's final product




Rachel's final product

Close-up of Savannah's final product






Close-up of Rachel's final product



Tiffany's final product







Close-up of my final product

Close-up of Tiffany's final product



The whole colorful gang!



On Easter Sunday, Bob and I went over to my parents house for Easter dinner. My mom made ham, corn, rolls, fruit salad, potato salad, and deviled eggs. My mom's a fantastic cook, so of course dinner was delicious. It was also a lot of fun! Everyone was in a goofy, silly mood. My sisters were telling hilarious stories, in British accents, which just made it funnier. My parents were joking and teasing with everyone as well. We all laughed pretty hysterically when my dad said he saw I spider and my mom started jumping around screaming. Then we played a little Disney trivia game while eating the raspberry almond tort I brought from Marketstreet grill. Afterward, Bob and I went over to my cousin Shelby's house to catch the last episode of Walking Dead for this season. I have to say, this has been my favorite season so far, and the season finale was AMAZING! It was the perfect end to another perfect weekend!