Easter Fun....

Many celebrations took place this Easter. It all began the week before Easter with the dying of the eggs. Lilly loved watching the eggs turn colors in the glasses of dye and she had even more fun decorating each egg with her favorite princess. We also saw the Easter Bunny three times - the mall, at school, and Gentry Farms. Joy liked the school bunny and even took a picture smiling with him, but not at the farm....we had to get a family shot.

Then there were the many egg hunts we had scheduled this year. About a month ago I feared my child would not be involved in one egg hunt, boy was I wrong. There was the hunt at school, in the neighborhood, at Gentry Farms with church, and Easter day with friends. So after we filled eight dozen eggs with candy and sent them off to the appropriate places we ended up having three hunts (the neighborhood hunt was cancelled due to the rain). But no worries because on Easter Day one of the neighbors had a hunt in their yard with some eggs from the cancelled hunt and to all of our surprise Lilly ended up with about 50 eggs filled with candy. It was a little much I will say. But Lilly had a blast and enjoyed every minute of finding all the eggs. The pink eggs were her favorite. She would even skip over the other colors just to get to a pink egg.


Then there was Easter morning. Both girls were happy to find their Easter baskets filled with fun goodies and even more surprised to see the tree out front decorated with candy filled eggs. Lilly wanted to eat every piece of candy and Joy just had fun shaking each egg wondering what was making that fun sound.



It is fun to celebrate holidays with the girls and do all the "fun" stuff, but we also reminded the girls about what an important time Easter is to remember that Jesus rose that day. This year we started a new tradition of making resurrection rolls. We talked about how when Jesus died they put embalming oil and spices over his body, then wrapped him up in cloth. So we used a marshmallow for Jesus dipped it in butter, rolled it cinnamon and sugar, and wrapped it up with a cresent roll and then placed it in the tomb (the oven.) When the rolls were complete we took them out of the tomb, opened them up and the marshmallow was gone - Jesus had risen!!! It was so much fun to celebrate this special day and focus on the true meaning of Easter.